Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . first to constitutional this, no matter what the beauty of form may be, disaster will bebrought to the herd. Next examine the form with reference to what yourequire. Then the question of early maturity and aptitude to fatten willbe important. Then constancy of characteristics as shown in the pro-geny must be at
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . first to constitutional this, no matter what the beauty of form may be, disaster will bebrought to the herd. Next examine the form with reference to what yourequire. Then the question of early maturity and aptitude to fatten willbe important. Then constancy of characteristics as shown in the pro-geny must be attended to, since this shows a perfect line of superior breed-ing, most valuable in any kind of farm animals. In all farm animalstractability and quietness of disposition are essential. In swine this isespecially so. The subject of uniformity in the progeny is referred toin cattle under the title heredity. It is worth reading again in con-nection with swine. V. Form and Feeding Qualities. Once you have secured an improved breed, or if you have made one byjudicious crossing and selection, not only hold it so, but continue to im-prove it. Careful selection of animals that show the best points, is theimportant integer here, and the fixing them by breeding such animals. A GROUP OF CHESTER WHITE BOARS. together in connection with good shelter and feeding is another. Thebest breed that ever existed, if they do not die in the degenerating pro-cess, will, if they must shift for themselves half the year, with barelyenough to keep life in them the other half, soon come to look like thepicture of a back-Avoods hog, or that of the prairie ranger. We see THE BREEDING AND CARE OF HOQS. 967 them every aay even in the best farming regions, among that class -vhohave no luck in raising critters. Why should they? They are de-generating, themselves, every day in the effort to get something fornothing, or else for less than its value. VI. The Care of Breeding Stock. In a general way the same princip
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