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the degree of consanguinity between sire and 

 dam may be very much closer than is the usual 

 practice. In other words, he is an advocate of in- 

 breeding so long as the experiments be not be- 

 tween horses of heterogeneous and unmixable 

 blood. Under the latter circumstances he 

 thoroughly agrees with the rest of the world that 

 the mongrelization of the product is increased. 

 Indeed, it can be increased in no way more surely, 

 for the prevailing characteristics of an animal 

 type are increased by inbreeding and when the 

 animals are mongrels to begin with, that which is 

 bad in them becomes more and more exaggerated 

 in the offspring. Mr. Huntington has been a 

 breeder and a writer on breeding for more than 

 half a century. In a controversy he is, what may be 

 called, without any offense to him, I am sure, decid- 

 edly militant. It has, therefore, been the case that 

 not unfrequently his discussions as to the breed- 

 ing of horses have been fast and furious. If I dis- 

 agreed with him in his conclusions I should re- 

 frain from saying this — indeed, I should not re- 

 mark his personal characteristics at all. But I 

 feel that the misrepresentations to which he has 



