LAWS GOVERNING THE BREEDING 
‘tthe almost inevitable deterioration’? caused by 
inbreeding. Thus is there transgression almost 
in harmony with obedience. Among the animals 
of the wild, nature exacts no such paradoxical 
conditions and can offer no help to the beginner 
in the study of in and line breeding. 
The laws of Mendel, Galton and Darwin are 
too highly scientific for the average breeder. 
The many ramifications of the recessive and dom- 
inant are dark and devious ways which lead the 
beginner or the mind not scientifically trained 
into a wilderness of conjecture and the morass 
of perplexity, confounding and confusing all efforts 
into an aimless circle which ends only in failure. 
Throughout all these pages it is my purpose to 
avoid all semblance of thought, methods or laws 
which the ordinary breeder and average fancier 
cannot easily understand and apply for his  bet- 
terment. Mendelism may be the true solution 
of the breeding problem and can perhaps be suc- 
cessfully used and applied with far reaching re- 
sults by one scientific enough to understand its 
premises. For the average fancier to delve into 
the scientific mysteries of Mendelism is like chas- 
ing the rainbow for the pot of gold. 
By using common sense reasoning in the study 
and application of nature’s laws, with wide open 
eyes, as cause and effect unroll in plain and under- 
standable formation in the reproduction and evo- 
lution of all animal life, the diamonds of a materi- 
al success are unearthed. Therefore we present a 
surer and safer method for the average breeder or 
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