IN-AND-IN BREEDING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 14 March 1883, Page 2

IN-AND-IN BREEDING.

A successful producer of purebred stock Bays:—The misfortune of in-and-in breeding is tbat it is like a two-edge-sword —it cuts both. ways. It iB the readiest path to uniformity and pet feci ion in the hands of a thoroughly competent breeder; yet it is the surest and swiftest to bring destruction to the animals and interests of the incompetent breeder. Admirable animals have been and are bred both ways, Mixing or mating may be done bo well in the hands of a 'first-rate judge and skilful breeder, through the selection cf animals personally suitable to eaoh other that the results are as constant as those of the most judicious breeding within ono tribe; and, on the other hand, alliances of relations may be so badly assorted as to prove worse than alien alliances. There is indiscriminate mixing, and there is indiscriminate in-breeding, Suppose the effects'of the two errors appear equally bad, those of the latter are really the worst, if it is true that close in-breeding intensiGea hereditary tendency. But again, we may assume, as a rule, that an unskilful breeder is less likely to make mistakes in uniting animals of kindred blood, than in bringing together sorts differently derived land descended. In nature in-and-in breeding must constantly occur, and if animals are perfectly sound and possessed of eood sexual characteristics, there is no evidence that he knows of to show that any evil results from such breeding, but, on the contrary, much good, because breeding in-and-in causes the tendencies to become fixed in the constitution, of the offspring. Feed, blood, and comfort must be included in the billot faie j that good management goes hand in hand with good blood no one can deny, for without)both it is impossjblo to obtain, perfection or succession.

A. HOUSETOP BURGLAR HUNT. An exciting chase and of burglars took place between' on Sunday, December 24ijir?mo neighborhoodol High and lj| Edinburgh. The constable on'- me" beat, having his suspicions aroused by a man whom he law enter a tenement, called on a brother constable, and the two entered the house, which is five storeys high. They were just in time to find a man climbing on to the roof through a small Bkyligbt, They pulled him back, and finding that his pockets were stuffed with oranges and rasins, they suspected that some Bhop had been broken into. Quickly summoning assistance from the central police station close by, .the houao ,waeJ surrounded,;and a,detective and constable, climbed on to the roof. Here they found; three men, whom they chased alone; the / roof—a most hazardous undertaking in | the dark, at that height, and with the"') slates covered;-with-hear frost,—but two / of them.got away on to another house. Here they were courageously pursued by one of the constables, hut seeing:him to be alone, they showed fight. He therefore drew hiß"batbni,and^disabled one,of them, whereupon the ether' surrendered. A. fifth man:was aho captured-in;the; stair, where he was trying to; escape by feigning drunkenness,. It was found that ■' a grocer'sjih'op in;the Cowgat e had Veen broken into through:, the ceiling';;and;; great havdb made %ith: its centehtej pMt. of the latter being foontl hiddea awß>:.j under the behind ; chimney star: | on the*roof, ; ashes.." Four.of;tho;five:men known to : the "pplicfywlw 'ss&&!*'[■;; :; ': well courageous cowloot. !■ : ;£sssiM ''■