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in the greyhound should be carried, and probably the same will 
apply to other breeds. Sometimesa sister may be put to a brother 
even, when there was no previous near relationship in their sire 
and dam; but though this has answered well two or three times, 
it is not to be generally recommended. A father may in preference 
be put to a daughter, because there is only half the same blood in 
them, when the sire and dam of the latter were not related; or 
an uncle to a niece; but the best plan is to obtain a dog which 
has some considerable portion of the same blood as the bitch, but 
separated by one or two crosses ; that is to say, to put two animals 
together whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers were brothers, 
but whose mothers and grandmothers were no relation to each 
other. This relationship will do equally well on the dam’s side, 
and the grandmother may be sister to the grandsire, quite as well 
as having the two grandsires brothers. The practice of breeding- 
in to this extent has been extensively adopted of late years, and 
has answered well with the greyhound, in which breed, as used 
for public coursing, the names of “Harriet Wilson,” “ Hour- 
glass,” ‘“‘ Screw,” “‘ Sparrowhawk,” “‘ Vraye Foy,” “ Motley,” “ Miss 
Hannah,” and “ Rival” speak volumes in its approbation, all being 
in-bred and all wonderfully successful. The last-named bitch is 
a remarkable instance, being by a half-brother out of a half-sister, 
and yet continuing honest up to her sixth season, when she broke 
a toe in running the last course but one in a large stake at Ash- 
down. In her case, too, the blood of the dam was somewhat 
notorious for a tendency to run cunning; and indeed the same 
might be said of nearly all the strains of which she was composed ; 
nevertheless, throughout her career she was entirely free from 
this vice, and left off without a stain. She has, however, unfortu- 
nately refused to breed; but, as I have never known this peculiarity 
confined to in-bred bitches, I do not allege the fact as arising from 
her close in-breeding. Thug I have shown that in practice in- 
and-in breeding, within certain bounds, is not onl¥ not prejudicial, 
but absolutely advantageous, inasmuch as it does not injure the 
nervous temperament and mental qualities of the produce; and 
that the body does not suffer is a well-known fact, easily capable 
of proof by examining the external forms of the dogs so bred. 
Theoretically, also, it ought to answer, because we find in nature 
