LAWS GOVERNING THE BREEDING 
natural law which governs wild animals, which 
are pure of their kind and not amalgamations. 
The law of atavism in domestic animals is 
the indicator which keeps tabs on the different 
bloods, marks and labels them according to kind 
and flaunts the warning signal at the opportune 
time to the observant progressive breeder who 
obeys the law. 
In wild animals like begets like unerringly and 
they are immune to the laws of in-breeding and 
atavism because they are the complete personi- 
fication of atavism, or reverting back to kind. 
Now, dear readers, don’t make the mistake of 
thinking that the laws which govern wild and 
domestic animals are opposites; the difference 
lies only in the impurity of the domestic against 
the purity of the wild. The radical point of 
difference is the method necessary to bring do- 
mestic animals to a somewhat near state of 
purity. In spite of man’s egotism and pride in 
his handiwork, atavism is the one fact that 
proves his work mongrelism, therefore imperfect 
and it can never be otherwise, the degrees 
varying according to the care and knowledge 
of the breeder. The inevitable law of nature 
will. ever make itself apparent whenever the 
fusing of two or more bloods occurs. For ex- 
ample, the white face found occasionally in 
Leghorns shows the White Faced Spanish infu- 
sion; the persistent stub on the shanks and feet 
of the clean legged varieties labels the drop of 
Asiatic blood; the side sprig on the single comb, 
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