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I have observed where boars or rams that have been 

 allowed to run at large, and are overworked that a 

 boar will produce a number of small and runty pigs, 

 and rams will produce the same kind of lambs. Many 

 of them will die where they are lambed. Hence, I 

 think male animals should be properly limited in their 

 services. 



I remember a conversation with Major Bacon, of 

 South Carolina, while attending state fairs at Macon, 

 Ga., in 1873, and at Atlanta in 1874, at which places 

 he won the two mile races with the celebrated race 

 horse Granger, which was also known as Wade Hamp- 

 ton. (I will state I also took premiums with my jacks 

 and jennets, Berkshire hogs and Devon bull at Macon, 

 Ga., in 1873 ; and at Atlanta in 1874 with my jacks and 

 jennets, Berkshire hogs and Durham bull.) Major 

 Bacon was a very successful sportsman. He remarked 

 to me that the reason why the famous race horses did 

 not produce more racers like themselves was that they 

 were allowed to serve too many mares during the 

 season, and stated he did not want his retired horses 

 he had to farm out to serve more than twenty-five 

 mares in one season to produce race horses. Some 

 horses are allowed to go to over one hundred mares 

 in one season. I think the same rule or principle will 

 apply to all male animals. 



I am writing this book in my eighty-sixth year of 

 age, and for the benefit of the young and inexperi- 

 enced stock farmers and breeders, and I am sure they 

 will excuse my plain, practical, unpretending style. 

 My object is to give my experience and observation. 

 I am aware that I am making many digressions from 

 my main subject, but my apology is to illustrate some 



