HISTORICAL TESTIMONY ON BREEDING 

 METHODS. 



A DISCUSSION of broad, general principles, 

 however widely illustrated, wants something 

 of completeness, especially where the subject 

 under consideration is one of immediate prac- 

 tical application. The individual propositions 

 may stand out singly with clearness and force; 

 but the question not unnaturally arises as to how 

 they harmonize, and whether they unite and 

 form a complete system. To be able, then, to 

 give something like a connected account of the 

 experience of some notable practitioners in any 

 given sphere through a series of years will often 

 throw a fullness of light upon the subject which 

 cannot be obtained in any other way. That it 

 is a difficult task to present in this way the life- 

 work of any man or body of men is well recog- 

 nized. It is necessary not merely to present 

 the facts the skeleton of the body of truth we 

 essay to know but to clothe them with the 

 motives and purposes on the one hand, and the 

 results 011 the other, which make the man's 

 life-work a living, organic whole. Under any 

 case the task is a difficult one. Where the facts, 

 so far from being "so plain that he who runs 



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