Earl of Abergavenny and brother of the first Marquess; for forty years Master of the West Kent Foxhounds, and a successfulbreeder of sheep.
The enterprising squab breeder will be able to find a market for the product of his loft, no matter where he lives.
If none of these are within reach, the pigeon-breeder may make his own charcoal by burning wood to a coal and then extinguishing the fire with water.
One breeder who started out in this way now sells all his squabs at $1.
These may be bought through almost anybreeder who sells pigeons.
The good breeder watches what kind of squabs each pair produces and keeps selecting the best from time to time until he has a loft full which may be depended upon.
This samebreeder now has a thousand pairs of breeding pigeons and hires a man to take care of them, while he attends to his own business, and makes about $1,000.
The squab-breeder gets his money in four weeks, while the man who raises chickens must wait at least twelve weeks before he can sell his birds.
These signs are only indications of the sex and even the most experienced breeder will often be badly fooled in handling unmated birds.
The pigeon-breeder simply puts his birds in the loft, feeds and waters them and they build their own nests and feed their young.
Not once in a hundred times will birds bought of a reliable breeder be found unhealthy, but prevention is better than cure any time, so precautions should be taken.
Notwithstanding this, the enterprising squab-breeder will make his own market and get better prices than he can get if he sends his squabs to the larger cities.
The pigeon-breeder need not take any special pains to get it for his birds, but in some localities buckwheat is raised extensively and in these places the grain may be used by way of variety.
Gluttony is the breeder and feeder of all other lusts: sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus: it pampereth the flesh to feed it, and make it a sacrifice for lust.
It is the turbulent disquieter of all societies; a destroyer of love; a breeder and fomenter of contention; and an enemy to order, peace, and quietness.
Singularly, at the very moment of writing these words, a letter from a well known plant breeder is dropped upon my desk.
Between Lexington and Frankfort a large stock farm, extending over three thousand acres, is kept by a gentleman who is very well known as a breeder of horses, cattle, and sheep.
From some inexplicable cause he shews the most determined aversion to certain hens, which no care on the part of the breeder can overcome.
The weakness of the thesis lies primarily in the fact that in the case of the breederhe has to take the animal as he finds it, subject to the play of forces, the characteristics of which are determined for him.
For one thing--a very important thing, while a breeder selects, nature eliminates.
It was because of the likeness of what goes on in the case of the breeder to what we see actually going on in nature that Darwin used the phrase "Natural Selection" as descriptive of the process.
Quite certainly no breeder would waste his time in breeding over a number of generations if he could secure the desired type at once.
Another breeder works for fineness of fleece, regardless of size or shape of the animal, and he gets his points.
The does conceive at about the age of seven months, and the bucks breed at about the same age, but the wise breeder will not sacrifice the individual by interfering with its development.
One large breeder who supplied bucks to some tributary country, said that he thought that it was a shame to castrate a buck, no matter how bad he might be.
There has been much vagueness as to what points thebreeder should try to produce.
David reached down and touched him, even as he heard the fox breedermake an incoherent sound in his beard.
The fox breeder placed a lamp on the table near the bed, and bade David good-night.
Trigg's dogs, Trigg, is the most successful hound breeder in the United States today.
I would say to breeders there are only a few characteristics necessary for good foxhounds and every breeder should see to this with careful study and tests.
To be sure of a strain of dogs the breeder must know their ancestors three generations back for it is surprising how far back a pup will breed from, not only in color but in characteristics, habits, etc.
I have heard it said so much that a stranger could hardly see any difference in a pack and when the American breeder gets to giving so much attention to their breeding, then we will soon have a true type of hound.
Owing to the increasing demand for jennets, the village breeder is inclined to put his she-donkey to a pony stallion rather than to a jack-donkey.
The breeder will soon discover that he can tell fairly well from the character of the seedlings whether they are of sufficient promise to keep.
The grape-breeder can hope to progress only by making many combinations between different varieties and growing large numbers of seedlings.
The grape-breeder must make certain that one or the other of the parents possesses the particular characters he desires in his new grape.
Through these and other signs, thebreeder will come quickly to know which vines should eventually go to the vineyard.
Mendel's discoveries, however, assure a regularity of averages and give a definiteness and constancy of action which enable the grape-breeder to attain with fair certainty what he wants if he keeps patiently at his task.
The grape-breeder should inform himself as to what Mendel's laws are, and on the work that has been done on the inheritance of characters of the grape.
By having the main planting near the Experiment Farm, the plant breeder at Wooster should also attend to nut trees.
I am a tree breeder interested in creating hybrid crop trees, oaks and, if possible, bi-generic hybrids of carob with honey locust and with mesquite.
No breeder doubts how strong is the tendency to inheritance; that like produces like is his fundamental belief; doubts have been thrown on this principle only by theoretical writers.
Every breeder of animals counts with the greatest confidence upon the action of the laws of heredity; and no reason can be given why these laws should not work in the case of man, why he should be the one species exempt from them.
The Argentine stock-breeder does not consider expense when it is a matter of importing good English cattle for breeding purposes.
These two figures alone show the importance which the Argentine breeder attaches to the improvement of the breed of his flocks and herds.
Specializing on any kind of animal rearing must be gone into with extreme caution, because in the breeding of animals there are many factors to be dealt with which do not confront the breeder of plants.
It has cost us 90 cent per pair to feed for twelve months; remember, we buy in large quantities; it would cost the small breeder $1 a year per pair to feed.
When the modern plant breeder seeks to produce something new by cross-fertilization a problem is encountered.
Yet the average potato patcher prudently saves his small potatoes for next year's seed, which is just as if a breeder were to keep the colts that were too poor to sell, to be the parents of his herd.
The work is equally valuable to the farmer who keeps but few pigs, and to the breeder on an extensive scale.
As well might the breeder of poultry pretend that he can, in the same year, both raise the greatest number of chickens, and sell the largest number of eggs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breeder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
