Show full blood and thoroughbred there Is both a distinction and a between these two words of they mean pretty nearly the samo tiling for a thoroughbred is certainly a but the converse is not true the inquirer naturally asks why not a full blood necessarily thoroughbred because nap hazard breeding is common and though both sire and dam are full bloods or thoroughbred if you please they are not necessarily well mated the idea of thorough breeding is breeding with an object it involves a study of the points of form and disposition lical tb constitution and perhaps nerve power of bogli pros parents it involves too the study of pedigreed pedigrees grees on both sides we study pedigreed not eo much to find out it an animal is blooded as to know what the blood hag accomplished in past generations familiar examples of this sort of breeding and study of ped idrees early occur with the english racehorse race horse and on this account the breed which resulted from all this painstaking testing and eludy was called thoroughbred horsemen have tried to have this good word confined to forsea alone as if there could bo but one thoroughbred race of anything for our own part wo believe in thoroughbred much 03 we believe in thoroughbred horses and cattle so far horses are concerned the name is at present cou fined to the english racehorse race horse and yet the orloff trotters are just carefully bred and there are families of oriental turkish and arabian horbes which boast longer pedigreed pedigrees grees and probably equally thorough breeding among other classes of animals we find nowadays now a days that not only is purity of blood demanded but pedigreed pedigrees grees demonstrating it not only grees but certified and recorded pedigreed pedigrees grees this is enough to satis afy common bleeders breeders bre eders but not a thorough breeder he will inquire say of a horse what speed had inspire what trotters has he got any in the twenty class what was the sires dam two thirty to road fagoni Is that so and so on until he gets the whole story of records and reports if the subject is a cow the questions will differ but not the principle and when generation after generation has been bred in this way and the crossings have proved good have nick as they say we finally arrive at a condition of things when we liay say that the animal is a thoroughbred as well as a full blood but let it not be thought that simply pedigreed pedigrees grees study and painstaking in abo breeding of animals arc cent even if continued for many generations discretion and those intuitive perceptions of animal characteristics acte called the bleeders breeders bre eders instinct are essential factors beside inasmuch the wisest of us dont know much good luck is to be hoped for and is certainly an clement of final success in breeding however much we try not to let it enter into our calculations finally results are needed all along the line and especially at the nearest end of the pedigree american agriculturist |