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‘'terribly bred cattle.” And the farmer must carefully discriminate. 
Let him get staunch healthy cattle to start his herd, if beef be the object, 
and animals with good milk points if milk be the object, rather than to 
strive for color. So long as the color of the animal is characteristic 
of the race, the beef points and the milk points are what he should seek. 
The body in the beef animal, and the udder in the dairy cow, is what 
he wants. 
Breeding in Line. 
Breeders of pure stock are especially particular in the selection of 
cires ; so much so that many of them breed solely with reference to the 
strain of blood particular families contain, the selection often being 
without reference to the uniformity or quality of the animals selected'. 
Really, however, breeding in line means the selection of males of a 
common type, and belonging to the same family. Thus in breeding 
in-the-line, the expert, while he objects to going out of a sub-family, 
nevertheless seeks to couple animals together whose uniformity is identi- 
cal, or, when one is weak in some essential, to improve it by coupling 
therewith an animal of superior excellence in this particular. Thus, if 
the head and horns be rather coarse in an animal, it is bred to one fine in 
head and, horns, but not lacking in other essentials. It is one of tho 
most fatal mistakes that can possibly be made in breeding, that to 
acquire one essential other disabilities bo allowed to enter. Many 
breeders have committed irreparable injury to their stock by not under- 
standing the necessity, while trying to improve one essential, of keeping 
all others intact. Therefore the sagacious breeder will pay more 
attention to those points indicative of heavy succulent beef laid in tho 
primer points and without an undue proportion of fat, if combined with 
general symmetry, rather than style and carriage, connected with 
deficient characteristics in flesh. The one animal may be striking to the 
eye, while the other will bring the butcher’s money. This is really all 
there is to beef cattle. 
Form as an Index to Quality. 
Whatever the animal, its form, organization and general make up, wiI2 
bo an indication of its true type and character. It is a fixed law of nature 
that this should bo so. A few illustrations will suffice, and which will 
easily commend themselves to the reader. 
The thorough-bred horse, is courageous, high strung, active, sinewy, 
impatient under restraint, and not given to carry much flesh or fat. Tho 
heavy draft horse, carries much flesh, is docile, honest at the collar, poa» 
