LINE BREEDING. Ill 



steadily fixed two most deplorable bad qualities 

 on nearly every animal in the herd. 



This method is often exceedingly tempting, 

 and a little specions reasoning often makes the 

 temptation irresistible. Given a fine herd to 

 begin with and these well bred, and the owner 

 often thinks that he would like to breed just 

 these cattle and no others ; that he would 

 like to make of them a race of cattle of high 

 reputation and out of them win for himself 

 present and posthumous fame as a great 

 breeder. Day dreams like these are easily con- 

 jured up and are the common joy of all times 

 and all people. We have all heard the ori- 

 ental story of the idle youth whose father died 

 and left him a small sum of money with which 

 he determined to make a mercantile venture, 

 and invested the whole of it in glassware and 

 took his place in the market with his wares. 

 Seized with a sudden ambition to succeed in 

 his new way of life he pictured to himself a 

 rosy future as a successful merchant. He saw 

 his little patrimony increase vastly through 

 constant and rapid turning over. He saw him- 

 self ere long a merchant prince and at last 

 even called to the high honor of marrying the 

 Sultan's daughter. Then he thought how he 

 would treat her, how scornfully, how disdain- 

 fully, and finally would spurn her from him as 

 she embraced his knees seekin his favor. But 



