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Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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it is essential that the improved breeds be care-fully and liberally provided for, especially since the better the breed thebetter do the animals pay for their feeding. IX. In-and-in Breeding and Breeding in Line. The meaning of these terms has been defined in a previous part ofthis volume. One is the breeding together of animals very closely re-lated ; the other is the perpetuation of qualities, by continuing to breedtogether animals having similar characteristics. From in-an-in and linebreeding we get, more often, what is called a nick—that is, the inheri-tance of some essentially good quality—than by what is known as out-crossing, or breeding to animals of dissimilar quality. The carefulbreeder will hesitate long before he resorts to out-crossing, and shouldonly consent so to do where the family has become too fine, and con-stitutionally weak, from being bred very closely together for a considera-ble lenirth of time. G36 CYCL01Ei>lA OF LIVE STOCK AAD COMlLKTE STOCJi DOCTOR.
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UJ I- DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF BREEDS. 637 X. Altering the Character by Crossing. When it becomes necessary to alter the form, do so through some animalof the same breed. Never go out of the breed for improvement even inconstitutional vigor. If you do,you will always rue it. The K3doe cross,made in the Short-Horns, nearly a hundred years ago, still crops out incertain families, in the sloughing of the horns, or in defective horns.Thirty years ago the outcrop of tliis peculiarity was quite common. Ifthe character of your cattle needs altering, select for the purpose a bullpossessing the characteristics desired, or as near thereto as may be possi-ble. Once the effect is produced, return again to the practice of breed-ing in line, never neglecting careful selection. So also in breeding upcommon stock, by means of superior males, when once you have decidedwhat breed is best for your particular use, stick to it. If the result isunsatisfactory, try another breed on certain cows, but n

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