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Journal of R. Agricult. Soc of England Change in Pigs

Vol I. p. 22 "On the Selection of Male Animals in Breeding Cattle &c" by Earl Spencer – is positive male character predominates, especially with ill-bred females

p. 24 "It is, therefore very desirable before any man commences to breed either cattle or sheep, that he shd make up his mind as to the shape & qualities he wishes to obtain and steadily pursue this object"

p 28 "an experienced breeder can judge with toleralbe certainty what will be the shape of a calf or a lamb, when it grows up, by seeing it soon after it is born & before it has begun to lay on fat"

[Earl Spencer. 1839. On the selection of male animals in the breeding of cattle and sheep. Journal of the royal agricultural society of England, vol. 1: 22-29.]

p. 128. "On Rural economy abroad" by Mr J. Stanley Carr "I know an instance where a large & valuable flock has been for years retrograding, in consequence

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of one unsuitable ram having been introduced 12 or 14 years ago" - This was in N. Germany & flock injured was Merino & the cross another variety of Merino (for there are two distinct vars)

[J Stanley Carr. 1839. On rural economy abroad. Journal of the royal agricultural society of England, vol. 1: 124-130.]

vol 3. p. 388 On the Dyock Oat by Revd R. W. Fisher - This var picked from a field earlier & more productive

[R. W. Fisher. 1842 On the Dyock Oat. Journal of the royal agricultural society of England, vol. 3: 387-390.]

vol 4 p. 43. "On the Jersey Cow" by Col. Le Couteur. In ten years the form of cow wonderfully altered by systematic selection Great attention long paid to the bulls being of good a milking family "It may, also, have established it with a rapidity that could not have been obtained in a wide extended country like France. C.D

Hence, perhaps the present superiority of the Jersey over the Normandy breed" - woodcuts given of change of form. The above paragraph refers only to superior milking quality

[Le Couteur. 1844. On the Jersey, misnamed Alderney, Cow. Journal of the royal agricultural society of England, vol. 5: 43-50.]