Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Farm Journal, 1853, Vol. 3: Devoted to Horticulture, Agriculture and Rural Economy If animals with short limbs are desired, t ten all those individuals Of the species which have these parts of more than medium length are rejected: and from each successive generation, those having the shortest limbs are selected to be the parents of the preposed new variety; and thus, in no very long pe ried the work is accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.