SELECTION OF BREEDING ANIMALS. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



IN addition to the broad and general points 

 of information in regard to the selection of our 

 animals there are certain considerations of a 

 more special character, which are of the first 

 importance. Chief of these are the matters of 

 physical nature which enter into every calcula- 

 tion in regard to the power and regularity of 

 their reproductive nature. In examining these 

 questions we must, in a certain sense, regard 

 the animals just as we might a machine for the 

 manufacture of a given fabric. It is of no con- 

 sequence to the purchaser of a machine that it 

 be made by this or that firm, or that it be called 

 by this or that name, or bear this or that brand. 

 The thing he wants to know is whether it is 

 capable of doing the work which he wishes 

 to have done. Of course when he has found 

 that machines of a certain brand or made by a 

 certain person do better work than any other 

 he naturally wants to use that kind in future; 

 so when a man has found that the cattle bred 

 by one man give the best results he goes to that 

 man when next he desires to purchase. But 

 there are certain things that he wants to know 



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