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the offspring, or ho porpotuah'ti. IJotli <)1" these 

 factors art> ih'toriiiinod hy oxporioiice. 



480. Tho i(hnil typt* of animal varies witli tli«' 

 uses to wliieh tlie animal is to Ix' put and witli 

 the breed. The points of merit in a dairy cow 

 (one which is rai^fil cliit'lly for the ])roduction 

 of milk) are iinlik*' tin* points in an idt-al beef 

 animal. The jioints in an id»'al Short-horn ar«' 

 unlik«' those iu au ideal Ayrshire. 



481. Animals are judged by their general 

 form, the texture of hide and hair, framework 

 or bony sti-ti«'tin*e, their motions, and dispositions, 

 their performance and their products. 



\r. Ifiiir to ntfit'ni flic iilenl 



4SJ. Ilaviiii,' Irariit'd wliat thf ideal animal 

 <houId b»', the breeder strives to secure that ideal 

 by breeding only from those animals which most 

 nearly approach the ideal. 



48.'^ Animals vary in their power to trans- 

 mit their own features to theii- offspring. Some 

 animals, without any visible eause, possess the 

 power of transmitting their own <'liaraeteristic8 

 to an unusual degree. Such animals are said 

 to be prepotent. Inferior animals may be jm'- 

 potent, a.s well as superior ones. It is impor- 

 tant, then, to discover beforehand if an animal 

 is prepotent, or is what stoekmen call a "goo(l 



