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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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that time a polled animal was born with all the 
characteristics of the original breed. On the 
other hand, horns occasionally appear on the 
Galloway, Norfolk and other polled breeds that 
have been bred pure for generations. 
Herbert Spencer, in speaking of the trans¬ 
mission of characteristics from parents to off¬ 
spring. says: "There must arise, not a homo¬ 
genous mean between two parents, but a mix¬ 
ture of organs, some of which mainly follow 
one parent and some the other.” The chief 
characteristics in some cases, however, are in¬ 
herited from some remote ancestor on one side 
or the other, while the dominant character¬ 
istics of the parents may become latent in the 
progeny.The gen¬ 
eral experience seems to be that the secretion 
of large yields of milk is incompatible with 
the accumulation of abundant fat. It is not 
claimed that rapid-fattening qualities cannot 
be combined with good milking properties, but 
that it is easier to excel in one than to develop 
both. One of the advantages which Shor;-horn 
admirers claim for them over their rivals, the 
Hereford?, is that they are better milkers, and 
this is undoubtedly true. Mr. Price, an exten¬ 
sive breeder of Herefords, however, says: “ Ex¬ 
perience haB taught me that no animals pos¬ 
sessing form and other requisites giving them 
a disposition to fatten, are calculated to give 
much milk; nor is it reasonable to suppose 
they should—it would be in direct opposition 
to the law of Nature. Had I willed it 20 years 
ago, I could by this have bad 20 cows from my 
own herd, which could have given a sutllcient 
quantity of milk for dairy purposes, and 1 am 
confident that, in the same time, I could have 
had a similar number that would not, at any 
time, have given 20 quarts of milk a day 
among them." And he is confident he could 
effect either of thesa objects much more easily 
than he could blend the two properties iu the 
same animal.Professor Tanner, of the 
Agricultural College, Cirencester, Eng., one of 
the best authorities on the subject, says that 
wben the rainfall is small and the herbage more 
than usually scant, much difficulty is found in 
getting ordinary farm stock to breed, a dry 
dietary being very unfavorable for breeding 
animals and very much retarding successful 
impregnation. On the other hand, rich, juicy 
and 6uc.cule.nt vegetation is very favorable to 
breeding. ..... In another place he remarks 
that the non-impregnation of the female may 
generally be traced to an excessive fatness in 
one or both of the animals and an absence of 
constitutional vigor. The breeding powers are 
most energetic when animals are iu moderate 
condition, uninfluenced either by extreme fat¬ 
ness or leanness.He is also of opinion 
that the most prolific breeders are usually good 
milkers aud produce the most healthy and vig¬ 
orous offapriug. ..... Earl Spencer Buys 
that the worse bred the female is, the greater 
the influence of a well-bred male upou the off¬ 
spring, and Prof Miles says this accords with 
the experience of practical men generally. . . 
The latter adds that if a cross of two distinct 
breeds is effected by the selection of animals of 
equal power in the transmission of their pecu¬ 
liar characteristics, the tendency is to make 
domiuant the original characteristics the herds 
had in common, and to obscure the special 
characters that constituted their distinguish¬ 
ing characteristics. In such cases he thinks 
the offspring would be likely to prove inferior 
from inheriting the defects of both parents, 
without retaining the moat desirable qualities 
of either.In making such crosses it is 
insisted that the male should not only possess 
superior merit in general characteristics, but 
he must be specially prepotent iu transmitting 
them.The benefits of cross-breeding, 
according to Mr. Spooner, are most evident in 
the first cross.Stonehenge says : "The 
pnrer or less mixed the breed, the more likely 
it is to be transmitted to the offspring. Hence 
whichever parent is of the purest blood will be 
generally more represented in the offspring; 
but, as the male is usually more carefully se¬ 
lected and of purer blood than the female, it 
generally follows that he exerts more influence 
than Bhe does, the reverse being the case when 
she is of more unmixed blood than the sire.” 
In other words, the best-bred parent has most 
influence on the offspring.. Referring 
to the influence of the first male parent upon 
offspring by another male, Dr. Carpenter says: 
" Borne of these cases appear referable to the 
strong mental impression left by the first male 
parent upon the female; but there are others 
which seem to render it more likely that the 
blood of the female has imbibed from the 
fcries through the placental circulation, some 
of the attributes which the latter has derived 
from the male parent, and that the lemale may 
conimunicato these with those proper to hei- 
self to the subsequent offspring of a different 
male parentage.Ou this subject Agas¬ 
siz Bays that the act of fecundation is not lim¬ 
ited in its effects, but that it affects the whole 
system, the suxual system especially, and in 
this lystem the ovary to be impregnated after¬ 
wards, is so modified by the first act that later 
Impregnations do not efface the first impres¬ 
sion.. Darwin, speaking of the 
pollenation of plants, confirms this theory. 
£toefc anti I’oultviu 
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" NF.TIIKIMjA ND <|UKKN,*’‘.i-ycar-ald record, - 13.5741b. 3 oz. 
'IjADY OF TIIE MKE,” 2-year-old record,.13,‘AOOIb. 4 oz. 
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regard less of coat. 
'Vile lil'Ht nea- on in this country, before they worn ac¬ 
climated, nearly all, in seven months (and some in 
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T. O. Box fiul. Baltimore, Md. 
f ItllOROLlilillRKD STOCK for stile nt low prices. 
■ til SaoiiX-nmiN Cows, bred /or butter qiuilitios, 
two have given iu lbs, butler per week at two year., 
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Also, Bull and Cow Calves. 
Poland China ins-Tho boBt I have ever bred. 36 
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—Cots wold.''hropshi re aud South Down 
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Fredericksburg. Va. 
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S»S lbs. of Butter Young sioek and calves, the get or 
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escutcheon as any Dutch E’riesiau, or so-called Hol¬ 
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Worcester, Mass. " 
17 Harvard Street. 
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Brockport, N. Y. 
Manufacturers of 
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A 1N"L> 
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159 First Prizes 
IN ACTUAL FIELD TESTS, 
in Competition with 
all the 
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O WORLD. 
