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any points of value. But what was more 
disappointing there was nothing to show 
after several years of patient strife with 
constant unsatisfactory results but a lot 
of mongrels, none having any point of 
value or even promise or probability 
of it. Thus was history once more vin¬ 
dicated, and the old story told over again 
“that nature has its own ways in regard to 
the breeding of animals and that the evi¬ 
dent design of nature in this respect is to 
preserve all races permanently distinct.” 
There is a scientific principle involved 
m this general result in the reproduction 
of animals, just the same as there is in 
the same way with plants. Nature 
seems to have made the rule that species 
should be continued by making them 
able only to perpetuate themselves, in 
their own distinct line, and that they 
should be forever unable to mingle with 
others and in this way upset the distinct 
peculiarities thus naturally fixed for the 
preservation of each and all perma¬ 
nently. And to secure this distinct sep¬ 
aration It seems to have been made the 
irrevocable law’ of Nature that closely 
related species, singularly, should not 
have the ability to interbreed success¬ 
fully and thus wholly undermine the 
plans on which Nature w^as originally 
founded, by rapid deterioration. 
1 hus the rule is apparently that breeds 
should be perpetuated permanently and 
so preserve their most vigorous progeny 
for the increase of the race, not only by 
natural selection, but equally by the 
power and ability to dominate over their 
companions. 
Nature makes no distinctions between 
great and small, and its laws apply to all 
alike indiscriminately. It could not he 
otherwise if the world is to exist perma¬ 
nently. And thus it has been, and is, 
and apparently ever will be, as long as 
the world remains. 
Now, if these propositions are true, 
then the changing of natural laws for 
the advantage or whim of mankind is 
difficult, uncertain or impossible. And 
the breeder who tries to turn them from 
their established course is placed in strife 
with this invulnerable and irresistible 
force and is obliged to submit to its laws 
and rules, and, if otherwise, he is de¬ 
feated. 
If this is the case then we must agree 
to the inevitable, and once for all estab¬ 
lish the rule that any intermixture of 
related blood in any flock is sure to be 
disastrous and in the end destructive. 
Then when such a proposition is made i 
as this we may ask, “What will probably 
be the result of breeding together the 
progeny of the same parents in an effort 
to establish any uniformity of character 
in any selected flock, expected to re¬ 
produce required characteristics, so as 
to make in the end a new breed, possess¬ 
ing some valuable new points To 
this we can only say that every rule’^of 
natural laws and every occurrence in 
natural history is inconsistent with any 
hope of success, and further are all in 
direct antagonism with such hope. 
At about regular intervals there ap¬ 
pears some individual strongly imbued 
with a desire to make a reputation or 
obtain some notoriety by producing 
some new breed of sheep, with no other 
intention apparently than to establish 
credit for doing a remarkable thing, 
just at the present time there are at least 
two propositions on foot, and having 
been approached for some possible en¬ 
couragement, we have to say that it is 
a hopeless case, as much so as to expect 
to find a gold mine appear in the morn¬ 
ing after one has blasted a hole in the 
back yard of his home. All experience 
proves this, even that of those prominent 
breeders such as Bakewell, the originator 
of the magnificent Leicester, Webb and 
other noted improvers of the South- 
down, and the few others who in a life¬ 
time work left still much to be done by 
their successors. In fact, the best sheep 
breeders find enough to do to maintain 
their flocks in standard condition with¬ 
out trying experiments in the way of 
making new difficulties to encounter. 
Let us preserve and keep what we 
have, improving if possible, and when 
something new is wanted by the world 
and we know what is wanted, it will be 
easy to repeat what has been done 
before.— Ancient Shepherd in the Ameri¬ 
can Sheep Breeder. 
The illustration to the article on the Razorback Hog, 
page 146 , was supplied by the Todd Company. Smithfield, 
Virginia. 
THE EDITOR’S TALKS 
{Continued from page 141.) 
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