class mares will be used in the stud, for the pro
duce of inferior ones will not be worth stable room.
What more appropriate time, therefore, could be
found for the institution of standards of type than

Horse Show Association of America ? Not only the driving public, but the breeders themselves, would be benefited by such a move.

then be enabled to breed with some definite object in view, and not at random, as most of them do

tuate a peculiarity as to make it a deformity, or

vice veisu.

The pigeon, owing to the rapidity with which it reproduces, furnishes the best illustration of the extraordinary results which selection can effect. From the common blue rock have been evolved the tumblers, pouters, fantails, jacobins, and even the now famous homing pigeons.

Any one who has made a study of the breeding of cattle, dogs, pigs, sheep, chickens, etc., knows the importance of proper selection and its possibilities.