. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants. SYSTEMATIC IMPROVEMENT OF ANIMALS 185 The breeder, on the other hand, is concerned with the offsprzjig, and he will stake his fortunes with the best bred ancestors, not because all their descendants will be equally good, but because the proportion will be higher.^ Unregistered stock and scrubs. Unregistered animals are of two kinds : first, those that
. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated; Animals, Domestic; Breeding; Plants. SYSTEMATIC IMPROVEMENT OF ANIMALS 185 The breeder, on the other hand, is concerned with the offsprzjig, and he will stake his fortunes with the best bred ancestors, not because all their descendants will be equally good, but because the proportion will be higher.^ Unregistered stock and scrubs. Unregistered animals are of two kinds : first, those that cannot be recorded because their. Fig. 27. Inferior feeder, ^ per hundredweight (1910) ; usual price, $ per hundredweight From " Beef Production," by Mumford ancestry is exceedingly mixed, — known as scrubs ; and, second, those that are really pure in their blood lines but that cannot be recorded because the records are lost, or, for other reasons, their particular ancestry is not fully known. These are called simply unregistered. 1 A glance at the table in question will show that while tall people spring both from tall and from mediocre parents, the greatest proportion is from the tall parents ; thus 4 -^ 19 > 5 -f- 183 (see rows e and/of the table).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941. Boston, New York : Ginn and company
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