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Breeding & Crossing Cattle Hogs &  ca[et cetera]

Vol IV English Board
of Agriculture
Henry Cline Esq. Surgeon
on the form of animals

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It has been generally supposed that the Breed of Animals is improved
by the largest males. This opinion has done considerable mischief
and would have done more injury if it had not been counteracted by the
desire of selecting animals of the best forms and proportions which are
rarely to be met with in those of the largest sized.
Experience has proved that crossing has only succeeded in an eminent
degree in those Instances in which the females were larger than in the
[illegible] proportion of females to males, and that it has generally failed
when the males <s>illegible</s> disproportionably large.
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