Identifier: americanagricult27unse (find matches)
Title: American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household
Year: 1868 (1860s)
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Subjects: Agriculture--Periodicals
Publisher: New York: Orange Judd
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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without any satisfactory results. There isnothiug in the researches of science or in theexperiments of practical men to throw any lightupon this matter. It is a law of universal appli-cation that the proportion of the sexes amongall animals that pair is about equal, whileamong polygamous species the females large-ly preponderate. All the rules which seemto work well in the practice of one breederdetermine nothing in the hands of another.Some animals will produce for a long series ofyears only males, while others will produceonly females, but, taking a whole herd aud theirprogeny for a number of years, nothing has yetbeen done to disturb the proportion of the sexes.Any teachings, then, which profess to overruletills law in nature are to be received with sus-picion. Experiments in this direction are notlikely to be rewarded with success. Still, sta-tistics are always valuable, and persons who arecurious in these matters and conduct experi-ments should preserve records of their results.
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94: AME H1CAN AOHIO CJLT U RIST. (March, Improved Short-horns. We present a beautiful engraving on anotherpage of a group of Short-horns taken from life. From lime immemorial the counties of Dur-ham and York produced a race of fine, largecattle, the rows being famous as deep milkers.From these sprung the Teeswater breed, and it- from this original stock, grazing in the luxuri-iiil meadows watered by the Tees ami its tribut-aries, thai the Short-horns come. The name■• Durham, or Durham Short-horn, was earlyattached to this breed, bul by consent of theprincipal breeders, ii lias been dropped and thatof Improved Short-horn universally accepted.The breed, a- ii is, owes its celebrity, in fact itsexcellences, in a great measure neither to theTees pictures, nor to the breeders of Durham —but all England has contributed to the one, an 1distinguished breeders of various parts of thetingdom have from time to time increased theother. The characteristics of the Short-hornshave doubtless be

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