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family has only a given amount of energy 

 when it splits off from the original stock. 

 The more highly bred it becomes, the less 

 energy it retains for reproductive purposes. 

 The high-bred race mares have lost a great 

 degree of fertility. Not more than 50% 

 of them produce any one year. Professor 

 W. S. Anderson, of the Kentucky Univer- 

 sity, at Lexington, Ky., endorses this and 

 understands how to remedy it in horses 

 and in human beings. Such well-bred 

 hens as the ever-laying strains of Leg- 

 horns will not incubate their own eggs. 

 The Indian-Eunner Duck, which has laid 

 as many as 320 eggs in a year, is not in- 

 clined to spend her time hatching and 

 rearing the young birds. Fertility is 

 lessened in the plant, the moment you 

 breed its petals double. The number of 

 roses decline, as you add petals to the 

 flower. 



The more highly-bred an animal or 

 human becomes, the more barrenness there 

 is. The "Dutchess" strain of "Short- 

 Homed" cattle sold in New York for more 

 money than ever was paid before or since 



