SCIENTIFIC BREEDING. 
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flesh, is docile, honest in the harness, possessing great bone and 
sinew, and is on. the whole more slug-gish. 
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Results of Improper Breeding .—In breeding lays the foun¬ 
dation for disease, bad conformation, transmission of undesirable 
characteristics, lowered vitality, impoverished mental and nerve 
power, likewise of blood, resulting in more or less weakened 
condition of the two great life-giving principles, germ and 
sperm cells. Great evils result not only from the mingdins* of 
the blood of members of the same family, but that of separate 
and distinct races. In breeding an opportunity is never lost of 
securing, early and late, from the willing or unwilling, fit or 
unfit dam, a colt, calf, lamb, litter or brood. Further, the pre¬ 
servation of all these is aided by all the means in the power of 
science and art that can be brought into play. What is the 
result? The weak is preserved at the expense of the strong; 
off form and sub-standard are favored. Hence we have, as 
compared with nature’s process, the survival not only of the 
unfit, which would otherwise have been killed off, but the de¬ 
velopment of all possible deteriorating characters, with some 
possible grains of wheat amidst much chaff, which, because 
they have pedigree to their name, escape final destruction. 
They are all devoted to the breeding pen, with a handing on 
to generations yet unborn, of all the worst accumulating pre¬ 
dispositions of the germ-plasm. In the literature of the Bible, 
we read of the prophet Ezra condemning the Jews in these 
words, “ When I heard this thing, the mixing of the holy race 
with other races, I rent my garments and my mantle, and 
plucked off the hair of my head and my beard, and sat down 
astonished.” 
This is an age of connivance, supplementing bodily defects 
and deformities by many and various kinds of artificial appli¬ 
ances. Go to any race track and there we find examples of 
what occurred on the Galesville track in 1894, out of twenty- 
seven-starters, no less than twenty-six wore hobbles. Look at 
all this work required to cover deficiencies. The perfect trotter 
must have a trotting spirit in a trotting body. We have fallen 
