A Text Book on Indian Agriculture

The aim of successful breeders has been to breed up to the ideal by perpetuating the good points of the parents in the offspring and eradicating the weak or bad points. [...] In cattle horse and sheep breeding the bull the stallion or the ram often represents half the influence in improving the herd the stud or the flock. [...] The superior impressive power of the Aden is demonstrated however by the offspring in each case almost invariably inheriting the Aden colour ; also by the almost total disappearance in the Gir-Aden or Aden-Gir cross of the loose skin on the sheath and on the dewlap which is so characteristic of the Gir breed but entirely wanting in the Aden. [...] It has been stated with the conviction of authority and experience that the outward conformation is mainly imparted by the male and the character of the vital and digestive organs by the female. [...] In the calculations below no count is taken of the variation in the digestibility of the albumioids oil and carbhydrates as found in ground-nut and that of the same ingredients as found in maize.19 In 100 lbs.