 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1853 - 618 pages
...puts such mixed-blood ewes to a pure New-Kent ram ? One obtains a lamb containing fifty hundredths of the purest and most ancient English blood, with...animals as showed them being carefully weeded out of the breeding flock. This may certainly be called "fixing a breed" when it becomes every year more capable... | |
 | Journal of the Royal Agriculture Society fo England - 1853 - 618 pages
...Englishmen took them for animals of their own country. But, what was still more decisive, when these voung ewes and rams were put together, they produced lambs...animals as showed them being carefully weeded out of the breeding flock. This may certainly be called " fixing a breed," when it becomes every year more capable... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1858 - 190 pages
...such mixed-blood ewes are put to a pure New-Kent ram? A lamb is obtained containing fifty hnndredths of the purest and most ancient English blood, with...animals as showed them being carefully weeded out of the breeding flock. This may certainly be called ''fixing a breed,' when it becomes every year more capable... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1858 - 192 pages
...breed to be formed, an influence almost annihilated by the multiplicity of its component elements. English blood, and disappear almost entirely, leaving...animals as showed them being carefully weeded out of the breeding flock. This may certainly be called '•fixing a Ireed? when it becomes every year more capable... | |
 | Bath and West of England Society - 1859 - 470 pages
...each other, and even Englishmen took them for animals of their own country. But what was still :nore decisive when these young ewes and rams were put together,...themselves, without any marked return to the features of the French races, from which the grand-mother ewes were derived."* This illustrates and confirms one of... | |
 | Iowa State College - 1877 - 368 pages
...these young ewes and rams were ' put together they produt ed lambs closely resembling themselves, j without any marked return to the features of the old...races from which the grandmother ewes were derived. i PREPOTENCE OP ONE SEX OVER THE OTHER. But one of the most noticeable facts respecting prepotence... | |
 | 1857 - 758 pages
...influence, in fact, of this type was so decided and so predominant, that all the lambs produced strickingly resembled each other, and even Englishmen took them...animals as showed them being carefully weeded out of the breeding flock. This may certainly be called "fixing a breed," when it becomes every year more capable... | |
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French races, which are individually lost in the preponderance of English blood, and disappear almost entirely, leaving the improving type in the ascendant. The influence, in fact, of this type was so decided and so predominant, that all the lambs produced... 