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That soundness of the generative organs and vigorous con¬ 
stitutional health added to faultless form and development are 
essential to the highest fertility of any race or breed of ani¬ 
mals ; 
That the qualities of the parent tend to perpetuate them¬ 
selves in the offspring, and that the perpetuation is more certain 
in proportion as the characteristic quality i-s more marked; 
That the reappearance in the offspring of a quality or feature 
characteristic of the parent is the more invariable and certain 
in proportion as such characteristic quality has been fixed in 
the ancestry by a long series of repetitions at last resulting in 
a determinate breed; 
That this power to transmit or reproduce qualities is es¬ 
pecially strong in certain races and individuals—which fact if 
known will render them highly serviceable in case the charac¬ 
teristics are desirable, or equally to be avoided if undesirable; 
That all breeds have a tendency to reproduce the character¬ 
istics of even their remote ancestors, however inferior ; 
That this tendency to breed back is more marked in some indi¬ 
viduals than others—a trait to be discovered as early as possi¬ 
ble and to be eliminated so far as may be by discarding such 
individuals as breeders; 
That morbid taints and organic defects are so liable to trans¬ 
mission, that perfect and healthy offspring can never be 
reasonably hoped for from less than perfect and healthy parents ; 
That, while breeding in and in is sometimes essential to great 
excellence and the formation of a distinct and permanent breed, 
the constitutional weakness, disease and final sterility to which 
it tends, must be avoided, whenever danger threatens, bv the 
infusion of fresh blood from another branch of the same fami¬ 
ly as far removed as is practicable ; 
That important modifications looking to improvement may 
be made in any given breed by such selections of male and fe¬ 
male as will reinforce those characteristics deemed desirable, 
and weaken and extinguish such as are undesirable ; 
That modifications may also be affected by subjecting the 
animals to new conditions of climate, soil, feed, training, etc.; 
