. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. <s. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. sheep, the ewes of one, when crossed during successive generations with Merino rams, yielded up their characters far sooner than the ewes of the other. In other words, the pre- potency of the Merino rams was greater in the one case than in the other; which necessitates this conclusion, that prepotency is the excess of the power of iranimissioii which one parent has over the other. It is evident that each pa
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. <s. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. sheep, the ewes of one, when crossed during successive generations with Merino rams, yielded up their characters far sooner than the ewes of the other. In other words, the pre- potency of the Merino rams was greater in the one case than in the other; which necessitates this conclusion, that prepotency is the excess of the power of iranimissioii which one parent has over the other. It is evident that each parent tends, with a certain force, to transmit its characters, and it wUl transmit them un- less the force is met by one superior to it. It is simply a matching of force against force, the stronger force winning here as elsewhere. Keferring again to the examples given by Darwin. In South America there is a breed of cattle called the Niata breed, with certain marked peculiarities. " When these are crossed with common cattle, though the Niata breed is prepotent whether males or females are used, yet the prepotency is str(»ngest in the female line. In making reciprocal crosses of Pouter and Fantail pigeons, the Pouter seems to bo prepotent, through both sexes, over the ; These examples will per- haps be sufficient to show that the transmis- sion of peculiar character is due to some power or force in one or the other of the pa- rents, and not that one parent invariably transmits certain characters and the other certain others. It appears to be a plan of nature, in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms, that in fertilization, the sexual cells shall come from difl'erent organisms. The various arrange- ments in orchidaceous plants are the most â well-known examples of this, but it is now known that in many other orders of plants simpler, but equally eflective means are pro- vided for securing cross-fertilization, and it is the opinion of the best vegetable physio
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