The Angora Cat - How to Breed, Train and Keep It (1898) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BREEDING AND MATING. The systematic breeding of cats may and should be carried out upon the same general principles as that of our other domestic animals. The natural laws are the same for all, and only need to be carefully observed to make success reasonably sure in establishing and fixing any particular type desired upon a family or strain. The first and most important of these great laws of Nature is the law of " Like produces like " is the old proverb. fl The offspring will resemble one or the other of its parents, or to a certain extent both of them, modifying the peculiar characteristics of one by dissimilar traits in the other. Usually, all other things being equal, it is the stronger and more vigorous parent that will have the greater influence in determining the character of the offspring, but this is not always the case. An animal whose ancestry have been bred to a particular type, or for an especial purpose through several generations acquires what is known as prepotency, or a power to transmit clown to its posterity the qualities which it has inherited from those before it. This fact is well known to the breeders of other animals, and they are exceedingly careful to select their breeding stock, but particularly the male, because of a supposed possession of this prepotent or dominant power. Toobtain fast travelling colts, the sire must come from a family noted for speed through several generations, and butter-producing cows with great records can in the same way be traced back through a long pedigree of cows bred for many years with the production of butter as the main object. But beside this law of hereditary influence, there is what is sometimes called The Law This is manifested first in the effect which the one parent may have in modify...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	February 2010
Editors:	Robert Kent James
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-98325-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-98325-8
Barcode:	9781120983251

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