The science of the sexes; or, How parents may control the sex of their offspring and stock-raisers control the sex of stock . out the 25th of January previous, and wasthen turned over to the part of the flock that hadlambed. Her milk did not come then, and aboutthe 24th of February she had another lamb, stillalive when he wrote. He had never seen any othercase like it. About the 15th of June, 1870, a cow belonging toWm. Burnell, of Swanton, Yt., gave birth to a calf, 246 THE SCIENCE OF the sexes. which in a few days was killed, and the milk of thecow saved. The milk was very thin and appearedt
The science of the sexes; or, How parents may control the sex of their offspring and stock-raisers control the sex of stock . out the 25th of January previous, and wasthen turned over to the part of the flock that hadlambed. Her milk did not come then, and aboutthe 24th of February she had another lamb, stillalive when he wrote. He had never seen any othercase like it. About the 15th of June, 1870, a cow belonging toWm. Burnell, of Swanton, Yt., gave birth to a calf, 246 THE SCIENCE OF the sexes. which in a few days was killed, and the milk of thecow saved. The milk was very thin and appearedto have no more richness than ordinary skimmedmilk. And yet the cow appeared well, and the causewas quite a mystery. A month afterward the cowhad another calf, and since then her milk has beenperfectly good. A BREEDING MULE. A female mule at Mont-cle-Marsan, France, oftwelve years of age, has dropped a mule colt, bornat term and perfectly formed. The dam gives milkand the foal sucks, but the mother manifests a pro-found indifference for her offspring, and does not ex-hibit the slightest solicitude when separated from PREVENTION OF OFFSPRING. 2 17 CHAPTER XVI. PREVENTION OF OFFSPRING. WE have already alluded, in Chapters I and II,to the love of offspring as the ruling passionin womans nature. Perhaps this should be qualifiedby saying it is part of the nature of every true yet there are many noble, gentle, loving wives,who—because of the bodily suffering incident tochildbearing, because of its heavy draft upon thephysical strength and the constant strain upon thenervous system, and because of other reasons not lesssatisfactory and soothing, and consistent with thewishes of the sufferer—most beseechingly and per-sistently implore their husbands to spare them thepainful infliction, and wait a little longer. Thisgrowing aversion—growing even among good andconscientious women—to having children frequently,is telling with powerful effect upon the public
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