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with those which may
be strictly
strictly be
said to struggle with each other for existence, as in the case of locusts and grass-feeding quadrupeds. But the struggle almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. In the case of varieties of the same species, the struggle will generally be almost equally severe, and we sometimes see the contest soon decided: for instance, if several varieties of wheat be sown together, and the mixed seed be resown, some of the varieties which best suit the soil or climate, or are naturally the most fertile, will beat the others and so yield more seed, and will consequently in a few years
quite
quite
supplant the other varieties. To keep up a mixed stock of even such extremely close varieties as the
variously-coloured
variously coloured
sweet-peas, they must be each year harvested separately, and the seed then mixed in due
propor- tion,
proportion,
otherwise the weaker kinds will steadily decrease in
numbers
number
and disappear. So again with the varieties of
sheep;
sheep:
it has been asserted that certain mountain-varieties will starve out other mountain-varieties, so that they cannot be kept together. The same result has followed from keeping together different varieties of the medicinal leech. It may even be doubted whether the varieties of any
one
one
of our domestic plants or animals have so exactly the same strength, habits, and constitution, that the original proportions of a mixed stock could be kept up for half-a-dozen generations, if they were allowed to struggle together, like beings in a state of nature, and if the seed or young were not