306 DADL’S VETLRINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
kind of beauty is what most men seek after, and, at a high price, 
to their sorrow, obtain it; whereas the real beauty of form and 
endowments, which practical husbandmen really require, must 
originate unartificially in the living citadel—must be the work 
of Nature and not of art. 
It is a fact, well known to many men, that animals of faultlesn 
form, having symmetrical proportions, are exempt from many 
diseases which are the heritage of faulty and inferior animals, and 
insurance companies take advantage of this knowledge, and insure 
the former at less rates than the latter. As an illustration of the 
above, I may be permitted to remark that the “ Arabian Courser,” 
English “blood horse,” American “Black Hawk,” and pure 
“Devon” cow—all remarkable for good points, beauty, and en- 
durance—are exempt from many of the common and unnecessary 
diseases and abortions. Beauty and symmetrical proportions con-~ 
tribute to health, because there is a certain degree of relationship 
between external and internal organs and functions. For exam- 
ple, a fine exterior, good depth of chest, well-proportioned muscles, 
and graceful limbs are generally coéxistent with good “ wind and 
bottom,” and the subjects, of course, possess active respiratory 
organs, a finely-balanced circulation, and a digestive apparatus 
that can digest every article in the shape of fodder. In selecting 
the beautiful, we therefore obtain material for perpetuatins health, 
long life, and valuable offspring. 
One of BLAKEWELL’s great secrets was, ‘‘ Brecd from the beau- 
tiful.” I allude to him because he was the most successful 
“breeder” that England ever boasted of. At the onset he paid 
great attention to “beauty of form.” Having developed a fine 
exterior, he engrafted on it the useful. He was well aware that 
beauty and utility were not always combined, but, being in pos- 
session of the former, he could produce the latter to “order ;” and 
he accomplished his object in the following manner. He required 
cows that wovld yield a large quantity of milk; consequently he 
selected those whose dams had long been celebrated for their ex- 
cellent milking qualities, and from among such he chose the very 
best female of the family, and united her with a beautiful male. 
Having, in the production of offspring throug]. the above union, 
accomplished his object, he then paid less attention to beauty, and 
more to the milking qualities, so as to render the latter permanent 
in the breed. Still, in all his experiments he rejected uncouth, 
