THE PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 11 January 1883, Page 3

THE PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING.

A ooRRhspo.NDENT in the Live Slocl JuiirThere arc writers on this subject who go so t.iv as to assert that some of these principles laid clown by them are incontroveitible ; but is theie a single one that is absolute ? That ot inheriting disease seems one ol the most indisputable : still, w e occasionally find off-spring from diseased parents, on both sides, which prove perfectly healthy. Yet the disease might crop out in a subsequent s;eneration. One of the most common assertions is, that the male gives colour, and the female form, but I hud a case the past 'summer, in cats, directly opposed to this j and as, it is as good an illustration of tue^pviheipies of breeding as if it came from'horsesor cattle, I will give it in fitllj' and'the reader can attach just the significance to it he pleases. ' Several years ago a ship was wrecked near the Earnegat Bay '(New Jersey) lighthouse. A male cati with a bob-Wl about an inch long, got ashore alive from the wreck,- and, in process of time, the cats in that vicinity began to give >, birth to kittens with bob-tails. A male descendant of this cat is kept by one of my neighbors,^ about twenty miles distant from the Bdraegat lighthouse. What portion of the blood of the original he may have in him no oiie knows, but probably not over oue-iourth to one-eighth. His color is calico, that is spotted yellow and white. , i < , 11 L have a female- eat of the Angora breed, which r is nearly all white —pnly a few grey spots on it.' The/tails of this breed of cats are extra long, and quite bushy. soniethingiHkeithose, ofv'ithe fox. Last June this* pajb ;was. grossed] by, the above bpb tailed one, and? the produce was flye, kittens, four of thorn having tfie form and'colp'r of'the' m'o'thelY' and* one only showing a littlejyellow of the sire mixed with its grey and white. But the curiosity'of the 1 thing' is, .that, \ notwithstanding the long . bushy tail of the mother, every one of the kittens came with a bob-tail, not exceeding an inch in lens*h ■■-' 1 * *

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