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THE NEXT GENERATION 



desired, and knowing how to secure results through inheri- 

 tance, certain breeders in England claim to have produced 

 a final and best variety of sheep. Here all the wished-for 

 characters have been so happily brought together that to-day 

 breeders proudly show the result — a sheep which bears fine 



wool, is hornless, and 

 yields the sort of mut- 

 ton that meat-eaters 

 like the best. Practical 

 breeders have secured 

 its evolution by con- 

 trolling its ancestors. 

 We may take cattle 

 for another example. 

 Shorthorns have been 

 developed in England 

 during the past hun- 

 dred and fifty years. 

 They are profitable for 

 their beef and some- 

 times for their milking 

 qualities. Then there 

 is the Jersey, famous 

 for its rich cream. In 

 1904, at the World's 

 Fair in St. Louis, a 

 Jersey cow took the 

 prize. And no wonder, for within seven and a half months 

 her cream yielded over 547 pounds of butter. Holstein cattle 

 are bred for the quantity of milk they give ; Hereford for the 

 quality of their beef. Some are chosen for color, for shape, 

 or for size ; others for their combination of characters. 



The Cactus 



In the foreground is the ordinary thorny kind ; 

 those in the rear are the thornless ones of the 

 same species, secured by Mr. Burbank. (From 

 " New Creations in Plant Life," by W. S. Harwood. 

 Published by The Macmillan Company) 



