LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. a.fft0 5 Chap. _._?!_-. Copyright No. Shelf_'_S_£>_3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. V ^^* KEY TO THE SECRET OF Breeding for Sex WITH HORSEJACK AND BULL, How to Have a Male or Female Offspring, as trie Breeder May Desire. Discovered after thirty-eight years ex- perience and observation BY R. M. SLAUGHTER. COMPILED AND EDITED BY J. B. LAMKIN, Paris, Texas. Sherman Printing- Company. Sherman, Tex. 1.8427 Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1898, by R. M. SLAUGHTER AND J. B. IvAMKIN, in the office of the librarian of Congress at Washington. ^ 2nd COPY, 1898. INDEX. PAGE . Introduction ------ 6 The Moon's Power on the Earth - - 8 Theories of Sex Viewed - 11-12 Mental Impressions on Offspring - - - 14 A Working Hypothesis Must be Formulated 15-17 Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, et al. - - 18-29 Key to Secret of Breeding for Sex - - 30 Knowledge of the Law of Sex Known to Ancients 32 Solomon's View of the Law - - - 33~35 Solar and Lunar Time - 35 Waxing and Waning Moon - 36 First Observations of Mr. Slaughter - - 37 Observations of the Moon's Power - - 37-40 Observations on Hermaphrodites - - 41 Diagram and Explanation - - - 42-46 Resume of Ovum Maturity - 46 Number of Hermaphrodites - - 49 Twins, Triplets, etc. - 50-5 1 Cause of High CEstrum or Heat - - - 52-53 Firstborn to be a Male - 53~55 Upon What our Secret Depends - - 56 Sacrifice, Blood-letting ----- 58 Jacob's Experience in Stockbreeding - - 60-65 How to Breed for a Sure Foal y , > % ^ -,*, §6-67 Experience and Certificate of Mr. Coffniaii.--. - 67-68 Affidavits to Method of our Breeding - 68-69 Recapitulation ------ y Q Breeding with Cattle - - - - 70-71 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/keytosecretofbreOOslau PREFACE. Qf(N preparing this little volume for publication, I Cf have tried to keep constantly before me the fact that the matter it contains must take its place in the ranks of the highest scientific production, and by its simple practicability hold its place there, or live the ephemeral life of many very splendid speculative theories. The principal thoughts therein contained, though clothed in language of my own, did not origi- nate with me, but came to me through a chain of cir- cumstances favoring much the nature of a providental maneuvre. In February of the present year, Mr. Slaughter, the original discoverer, or rather the re- discoverer, of the secret of breeding for sex, realizing his inability to prepare his work for publication, sought for some one to whom he could safely impart his secret, and associate with himself in its publication and management. Knowing personally Mr. R. B. Barber, resident with himself, of the Indian Territory, and a stock breeder, he opened to him in bonded con- fidence, his experiments and observations of the entire thirty-eight years which he had devoted to the subject, and gave Mr. Barber all the liberty that could be re- posed in a confidential trust. Mr. Barber soon realized that his trust was of more than ordinary magnitude, and in order to treat it according to its demands would require some one more familiar with the laws of physi- cal life than himself, and hence he felt the necessityof the assistance of a third man. Meeting Mr. Barb er while pursuing my ministerial work, and giving him apparent satisfaction in answer to his questions on 4 PREFACE. various subjects, he concluded he had met his man, and, with the same prudential guard, with which himself was bound he delivered to me his bonded trust. As a consequence it became necessary for me to meet Mr. Slaughter, who, at the instance of Mr. Barber opened to me fully his secret laboratory. How well these men have judged of my ability to handle a subject of such imposing and peculiar bearing, can be known only in the sequel. Twelve years previous to this, Mr. Slaughter, confidentially delivered to Mr. Geo. Coffman, a noted stock breeder of Collin county Texas, his secret from whom I gained much valuable information, the result of his continued tests for the entire twelve years in both his horse and jack breed- ing, mention of which is made elsewhere. Thus equipped I began the work before me, having as a farmer the greater part of my life, had some experi- ence in stock breeding, and taken many observations from the law of reproduction, and the science of gov- ernment reigning in both animal and vegetable king- doms. I appreciate the value of the certificates of ac- tual tests made by individual farmers, following the instructions of both Mr. Slaughter and Coffman, which certificates will be given their proper place in the body of this little volume, and which will from the beginning shield my work against the expected wreckage of an unsupported theory. I shall not offer in evidence the most plausible theory, indulged even, as a physiological fortress, without giving suffi- cient warning, to place the reader well on his guard. I shall endeavor from the beginning to the ending of this little work, to keep from it, any appearance of a literary or scientific romance, in the flowery field of ancient or modern thought, and deal with facts and common sense only. I am sure that my entire work will undergo a crucial analysis, and it will be right that it shall, announcing as it will, as a proven surety, PREFACE. 5 that which has long been set aside as the "improba- ble." I cannot hope to offer a finished work in so new a field, suggesting an appendix to the arduous labors of the ancient philosopher and modern scientist. But I do hope that, with this key which will pass from our hands, some more skillful and penetrating mind will take and apply it to the removal of the mist that yet hangs darkly over the entrance to life's closed and secret chambers. Man's dominion over the earth will not be complete until he has fully dis- covered the secrects of its power and government. The horse is his natural servant, ward, and compan- ion, heading the list of the lower levels. The secret of sexing once known, and the horse fills his place in nature and becomes absolutely subordinate to the will of his master. This little book will place him there, not to make him physically more servile, but to make his service the more valuable, because of his more perfect subjection. To these men, Messrs Barber and Slaughter, who so unselfishly gave to me the entire managment of this work, editorially and otherwise, I write most cheerfully my grateful regards. And when I set them forward to the world and associate with them Mr. Coffman who will share in his place the honor of select preference, I will be content to retire to my former ob- scurity, and leave the trio to enjoy alone their well merited glory. I promise however to follow this vol- ume with another devoted entirely to the law of sex, applied to the human family, and its power there. This I mention in mv introductory but is well in place here. These two little volumes containing as they will unmeasured worth to the world, I unreservedly dedicate to the three names herein written, and hold only the honor of subscribing, their editor and mana- ger. J. B. IyAMKIN. Paris, Texas. INTRODUCTORY. For many long years there has existed a serious but very difficult question among the earnest seekers for scientific knowledge which has led them to ask: Is there a law governing the animal kingdom, or any part of it, by which the sexes are determined? And is this law known or to be known to man? Without question we admit that everything is produced and controlled by law, or by chance; and since such high order appears in all perfect physical motion, we are forced to decide against any "chance" theory, and proceed to answer the above questions with emphasis. There is a law by which sex is determined in the pro- cess of animal reproduction, and it can be known to man. Animal reproduction, or, "the bearing after its kind," is and ever has been of sufficient import- ance to hold the same in perfect continuance. It can never be considered irrational to hold that, it is radi- cally wrong to hold a mere "theory," against known and stubborn facts. We know that like causes pro- duce like effects. It is a fact that if we plant corn we will gather corn. It is a fact that corn will not produce potatoes. It is a fact that some law governs to prevent such occurrences. It is a fact that corn always produces corn. It is also a fact that there is a law by which this must be, and cannot be otherwise. It is a fact that each vegetable genus, is within itself, clothed with the power of continuance, when "sur- roundings" are favorable. It is also a fact that the "surroundings" are of law, as much as the power of racial propagation. Temperature must be at proper degree, treatment of proper order, and soil of proper INTRODUCTORY. 7 nourishment, «11 of which is by fixed laws. It is a fact that species are derived from generic mixtures and law places to their extension a positive limit. This being true of the vegetable kingdom, can anything less be said of the animal? But in view of the fact that in the animal we find superior importance in some way, would it not of necessity occur that the law governing the latter kingdom exerts a correspond- ingly superior power? It is a fact that law cannot ex- ist without order, nor can order be maintained with- out law. It is a fact that the male and the female of both the kingdoms named, must copulate at certain and fixed times and conditions to produce an offspring. It is a fact that in the offspring we have both the male and the female, and that, in exact accordance with the law as observed, or unobserved. It is a fact that the more perfect the law of reproduction is ob- served, the more perfect the offspring resulting. Com- ing now to the animal kingdom, it is a fact that from each genus we discover variations in symmetrical form, differences in weight, texture, color, mind, power, temperaments, motion, etc., in which is dis- played the great law of universal diversity, which positively forbids any two objects, "though within the very closest generic embrace," from being an exact counterpart of each other. In this we seethe supreme reign of a perfect law. Without attempting to follow this line of thought to the first and great cause of all law, it is sufficient for us, if by positive results we can reach the second or third or still lower causes, if, at the same time we can discover by actual experiment, that we have arrived at a safe phase, or character of the truth. That a continual and multiplied media of causation exists, and of necessity must be so, cannot be successfully denied. That the inclination, or po- sition of certain planets or stars, relatively to each other exert a corresponding influence including the 8 INTRODUCTORY. earth as is readily admitted, has given rise to all the astrological phenomena that has ever been offered to the world. That moons, or satellites, exert an influ- ence upon the planet to which they belong, is not dis- puted in high scientific circles. "That the earth's sat- ellite or moon, positively produces great oceanic swell or tidal wave is true and the only known limit to this influence is the breaking of the wave on the eastern continental shores. Just what effect the moon's pow- er after losing its grasp upon the great deep, has upon the land, has not as yet been accurately ascer- tained. But, that the moon influences both the ani- mal and vegetable kingdoms on the earth's surface cannot be successfully denied. The "signs" of the Zodiac have long been recognized as in some way af- fecting the Mammal family and all such as have a determined, or defined nerve plexus. All this being true, and perfect order being preserved, positively for- bids chaotic or chance events. In the entire classifi- cation Of facts the one of sex certainly stands among the highest. Racial extension depends entirely up- on it. This no one can deny. And if law governs perfectly the lower order of physical life, why should it be abandoned when it comes to that upon which all else depends? Such thoughts are absolutely absurd. The higher the object sought, the higher the law by which it is reached. If when Gallileo discovered the motion of the earth; Harvey, the circulation of the blood; Newton the force of gravitation; Morse the utility of the electric circuit; or Cooper the power of steam, if some scientist had discovered the secrect of sex, we would now be left to conjecture, as to which discovery would be entitled to the highest honors. But the secret has been discovered, not by an accom- plished scientist, but by an earnest, industrious, in- vestigating plebeian, who has given almost his entire life to experiments, and studious observations, to solve INTRODUCTORY. Q. if possible, the sex problem. He now comes in this little volume to place his discovery before the world, but under such guards as are richly due such dis- closure. The announcement of this discovery is not hastily or incautiously made. Feeling as he has for years, that the medical profession, together with the breeders of stock, and especially the breeders of fine, blooded, and imported stock, were all anxious to know the secret of sex breeding, or have a male or female offspring, just as the breeder des'red, would be gladly hailed, but with the severest test and criticism. Fear- ing lest his fortress might be stormed, the discoverer placed his secret in the hands of a well kuown and well indorsed breeder of imported and fine blooded horses and jacks of Texas, whose certificate and loca- tion will appear further on, together with a few of his staid patrons, who have been satisfied for years that some one had the secret of sex breeding, and who made many fruitless efforts to obtain it. The author of this article is well aware that this age of popular sentiment does, and of perfect right should demand facts before speculative theory, and especially will it be true in this matter of sex breeding. This volume will be devoted to stock breeding alone. And that part of sexual science relating to the human family, or breeding for sex there, will come forward in a sep- arate volume; and the law governing the one, will there distinguish itself from the law governing the other. Hygenic rules w T ith dietetics can be made to serve a high purpose in determining foectal health and character, but nothing whatever, with determining sex; which we trust we shall discover as we proceed to detail our sexual secret. To notice and attempt to answer the many theories advanced from time to time, by studious investigators, who have appeared upon the world's stage of science, and pay them the respect to which they are really entitled, would mean IO INTRODUCTORY. to prolong this introductory until it became of itself exhaustive and tedious, to be followed by a volume or volumes, unsuited to the restless, moving age in which we now live. We shall endeavor in this little work to be as brief as our subject will permit, and, as the public now demands, clothe our thoughts with as few words as possible, and thereby keep always direct- ly to our subject. We shall bring forward some very important Bible evidence. Clearly showing that an- ciently the secret of breeding for sex was known and practiced in the family household as well as in the field, by which will be proven, that modern science, when it has unveiled this secret to the world, by its tedious, diligent, wonderful search and triumph, has only recovered a long lost art — that of applying a sim- ple, natural law. If in this little book, or the secrets it contains, we can succeed in re-opening some long closed and obscure chamber in these temples of ours, and give back to the world that which is its own, we feel that we will have served a place and purpose worthy of much higher and grander beings than we are. We are well aware of the many theories appear- ing at different periods, and each receiving all, and many, much more credit than was due it, upon the great subject of breeding for sex. Some of the most popular I quote from a work entitled "Horse Breed- ing," by J. H. Sanders, page 64, under head of "Con- trolling the Sex. ' ' It has been said there is nothing new under the sun, and that each succeeding genera- tion spends most of its time in shoveling over the same earth that has been examined in vain by its predeces- sors in search of hidden treasures. * * * That of con- trolling the sex of offspring has, ever since the days of Aristotle been one of the most fruitful topics of dis- cussion, and the various theories that have been ad- vanced, appear and reappear with perennial vigor. These theories may be summarized as follows: INTRODUCTORY. 1 1 i st. A strong mental impression on the part of the parents, but espicially of the mother, at the time of conception, will determine the offspring. 2nd. The concentration of the attention of the dam, on her peculiar qualities, at the time of sexual union, will secure female progeny. 3rd. If the amorous desires of the male are stronger than those of the female, the progeny will be a female, and, vice- versa. 4th. The development of the faetus in the right side (horn) of the womb will secure a male and in the left side a female. 5th. The point of origin of the artery of the tes- ticle from the main abdominal trunk (aorta) will de- termine the sex of the majority of the offspring, the male sex predominating in proportion as the origin is more anterior. 6th. The male germ is supplied by the right testicle or ovary, and the female by the left. 7th. The excitation of one side or the other of the system of the male at the time of coition, will de- termine the sex of the young. 8th. The persistent selection for breeding pur- poses of females which yield one sex mainly, and of males from females of the same kind will finally se- cure a race producing a great excess of the sex in question. 9th. In uniparous animals every successive ovum that reaches maturation is of the opposite sex from that which immediately preceded it. Hence by serving on the second occurrence of heat we may se- cure the same sex as in the last fsetus. 10th. The stage of development attained by the ovum at the period of impregnation, determines the sex of the product of fecundation, the less developed proving females, and the more mature, the males. 12 INTRODUCTORY. nth. The personal preponderance in strength and vigor of the one parent will determine an excess of its own sex in the progeny. 1 2th. The nature of the food of the parents and particularly of the mother before conception, will in- fluence the production of the different sexes. The theory that just now appears to be more gen- erally believed in than any other is the 9th in the foregoing list. This based on the belief that, natural- ly, animals which usually bring forth but one at a birth will produce the sexes alternately, that, if the first ovum produces a male the next ovum if impreg- nated, will produce a female, consequently if a cow or mare after having produced a female is impregnated at the first period of heat thereafter, the product will be a male. If females alone are desired, one period of heat should elapse after the birth of a female before the darn is again served by the male. This is what has been known as the Stuyvesant theory, and many cattle breeders of my acquaintance, firmly believe that it can be relied upon in a majority of cases. Other theories have been advanced, but the foregoing includes the principal ones. It may be that several of these causes have some influence in determining the sex, but it is quite certain that some of them, no- tably, the 4th, 5th and 7th can have no influence whatever, and that none of them can be depended upon. * * * " I introduce the foregoing theories and comments because of the careful thought Mr. Sanders has given to the subject of .stock breeding generally, and giv- ing the highest authority in bringing forward experi- ments in each particular phase of it. In view of the many very earnest inquiries into the mysteries of sex- ual science, and the successive failures of the investi- gators to answer correctly, the same author ou page 66 of his work, exposes himself to a withering criti- INTRODUCTORY. 1 3 ticism by nature herself, by saying: "Nature has wisely provided, in order to preserve an equilibrium in the sexes, that their determination should be placed beyond the control of any single cause." Despair of ever knowing the law by which the sex was determ- ined, or possibly to be controlled, may have prompted Mr. Sanders to give expression to such thoughts. Nothing less will apologize for the fallacy, since he has not denied that all else as far as was then known was governed by fixed and positive law. But appear- ing to recover from his disagreeable exposure, he says on page 67, same work: "It may be that we shall ul- timately discover the circumstances under which these various causes operate upon each other, so that we shall be able, in many cases, to produce a given sex at will, but at present we know but little if any more upon the subject than was known to our grand- fathers. * * * " I bring these quotations forward in my introduction because of the subject matter they contain, bearing directly upon the law to be treated of in the body of this little work, and to which I will again refer. As a sequence to the tedious labor of the scientest to penetrate the secret domain of the un- known, has the attention of the thinking world been directed to the sublime intellectual altitudes, rather than the sterner depths of pure plebeian thought, for the unveiling of nature's deeper recesses. I grant the logical righteousness of this,, but at the same moment protest, that, within this mundane sphere, we can know anything more than nature as she reveals her- self by fixed and immutable laws. With this view I have no hesitancy in offering freely and fearlessly the secret of breeding for "sex", as it comes from a crude monument to nature's own genius. As the wonder- ful presence, pressure and power of gravitation be- came known by the falling of an apple, the utility, power and motion of electricity by the subtile fluid 14 INTRODUCTORY. gliding down a kite string, the great strength of steam by the lifting of the lid of a common tea-kittle, so has come to light the wonderful secret of breeding for sex, by the sight, and a desire to know the cause of an her- maphrodite. As in each case mentioned above, the apparently limited suggestion, expanded with amaz- ing power and speed, until now it is rapidly filling the labratories of the world; we come now to offer another and more astonishing suggestion by disclosing the secret of breeding for sex, knowing as we do, how long and diligently it has been sought. It cannot and will not be denied, that under certain and peculiar conditions and ifluences form, color and character are affected and transmitted to progeny in both the ani- mal and vegetable kingdoms, but just why and how this is true cannot be known until some searcher has disclosed the true nature of each individual's proto- plastic elememt. That sight and sound does effect the animal nerve, at any time, is an essential fact not to be questioned. That the ovule, the spermatozoa, the faetus, through gestation, and on to complete de- livery and even later, is in continual contact with, and becomes in a high sense the product of the mate- rial nerve, cannot be disputed. That a working hy- pothesis by which the relation between parent and offspring may be clearly understood, has ever been, and will perhaps remain, the closing act in the alche- mists' dream, the very anguish of defeated specula- tive philosophy. We know that any substantial progress in science is, and must remain impossible in the absence of a working hypothesis, having a uni- versal application to the phenomena pertaining to the subject matter. And it can be truly said that until such an hypothesis is discovered and formulated, no subject of investigation can be said to be within the range of the exact sciences. Kepler and Newton gave the world an hypothesis from which has been formu- INTRODUCTORY. . 1 5 lated a system, the exact working of which places as- tronomical measurements and calculations, together with the power and source of gravitation, within the domain of the accepted sciences. The Newtonian hy- pothesis did for astronemy just what the atomic theory did lor chemistry. By the former the most intricate calculations are made, inspiring the scientist with perfect confidence, by the correctness of its results. The chemist knows that by combing oxygen, one part, and hydrogen two parts, that he has water. He also knows that to combine one atom, or part oxygen and one carbon, under heat, he has a deadly poison, car- bonic oxide. But to add one atom, or part more ox- ygen, he has a harmless gas, carbonic anhydride, (dioxide) and so on throughout chemical combina- tions. The atomic theory can never be demonstrated by the geometric arrangement of the atoms them- selves, and the chemist holds it as true only by re- sults. Newton nor any of his disciples could demon- strate his hypothesis save by the correctness of cal- culations based upon it. Yet the scientific world is satisfied with both hypotheses and classifies them as exact science. In the great field of psychological in- vestigation, a satisfactory working hypothesis has never yet been formulated. In a word, no theory has been advanced which embraces all psychological phe- nomena. Messrs. Bernheim, Braid, Sir William Ham- ilton, Dodd, Carpenter, Wigan, Dr. Brown Sequard, Proctor, Flint and many more learned and brilliant minds have invaded the domain of psychic phenome- na, and in their struggle for a perfect, working hy- pothesis have given^ hypnotism to the world as a pos- sible hypothesis leading through the field of psychic science. No working hypothesis has yet been formu- lated by which the physiologist can determine to a certitude the source, power, and life of atomic plasma; nor so long as it is absent can science claim to hold I 6 INTRODUCTORY. the secret to the law of animal life. Indeed if an hy- pothesis can be demonstrated, it is no longer a hy- pothesis, it is a fact. If we knew the distance to the sun or planets, or their exact dimension, any geomet- ric theorem would pass into an actual fact. And the same can be said of any character of theorem. A theorem may suggest a hypothesis, and vice-versa, but no hypothesis or theorem are of any material force when brought to face a demonstrated or actual fact. In the treatment of a subject, however it may have been presented, we can safely discard any theory when the facts have been obtained. The fate of an hypothesis can always be said to depend upon the character of its own logical deductions; in fact it must live or die by them. If the physiologist could formu- late an hypothesis by which all the facts of sperm and germ-cell life resulting from self or cross fertilization, their perpetuity on the one hand, and their absolute failure, or loss, on the other, could be fully explained, or place us in full view of their genesis, then we might well hope to obtain from such hypothesis the perfect law of reproduction, which, as a logical se- quence, would to a certitude determine the law of dis- tinct sex, and by what exact process each are separate- ly obtainedo But in the absence of such hypothesis at present, the veterinarian and breeder will gladly accept of a class of facts however small, and from whatever source they may come if they will supply a want, waiting so long for some philosophical develop- ment. The fact of the many and conflicting theories regarding the production of the two distinct sexes from the same stock, is conclusive evidence, that thus far, among the most careful and learned stock breed- ers, no working hypothesis has been formulated, by which the sex of the offspring can be determined be- fore the germ-cell has even been fertilized. That the germ and the sperm-cells must unite in order to pro- INTRODUCTORY. 1 7 duce an offspring, cannot be denied. But, that the conditions of both or either of the cells, "per-se" de- termines their own character, and the character in turn determines the sex, as is thought to be discover- ed in both plants and animals, is an uncertainty, up- on which the most sanguine scientist may wreck his fondest hopes. It would be useless to extend these thoughts farther at present, but for the fact that theo- ries have appeared proposing to solve the problem of sex breeding based upon an hypothetical parity with the astronomer, the chemist, and psychologist, when neither nor all combined can become an hypothetical parallel. Astronomical calculations are made minute- ly correct, without disclosing the deep secret of dis- tance, power, and motion. The chemist obtains per- fect results by an hypothesis based upon the unknown power of atomic adhesion. The psychologist brings forward astonishing results from the silent confines of the ''occult." But the physiologist finds his labrato- ry filled with material organisms, bearing each mate- rial affinities, or material dissimilarities. The perfect animal or plant, perfectly sexed, is of itself an absolute theorem, the first and chief term in which proposition, is a complete organized life. The second is like unto it, produced by a perfect law — the first and the last power in causation. The writer being absolutely ig- norant of any case of self-fertilization of the germ-cell by a sperm-cell of the same individual, he reasons that unlike the process of flower fertilization, the higher animal organisms become fertilized by speci- ally fitted portions of each other. The hermaphro- dite animal as contrasted with the uniparous or per- fect unit, cannot be said to project itself so far into the latter as to produce, contrary to nature's law, a sexu- al duality. Continued in and in breeding, so clearly shown by Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, may without exception among plants or animals, result finally in 1 8 INTRODUCTORY. the loss of sexual vitality, and yet never prove that the sexual subsidence is due to anything but the vio- lation of a fixed law. From what has been said, and in view of the high standard from which the subject of physical de- velopment and sex has been treated by the scientists above named, we are the more inclined to think that among the astrological phenomena to which at pres- ent so little attention is being paid, will come a sol- vent for many of the problems appearing in popular sexual science. I cheerfully endorse Mr. Darwin in his own expression, as well as his acceptance of a thought from Mr. Huxley, after duly considering the crossing and re-crossing of flowers and the nature of the hermaphrodite animal, that, intercourse with a distinct animal is nature's legal necessity. It is well known among bee-keepers that a queen once fertilized by mating with a drone or male bee, is fertilized for life, and the hundred-thousandth egg deposited by that queen is as fertile as was the first one after mat- ing. But no hypothesis has yet been formulated by which this process, with many facts of fertilization in plant and animal life can be fully explained. To say that science will not finally unveil the deep secrets of organic life, would provoke pity, rather than con- tempt for its author. But that it has not yet done so, cannot now be denied. Reviewing the last preceding- pages we see nothing forbidding the fact that the law of time, being the only law that cannot be violated di- rectly, has ever and must continue to govern the sex in all organic life. And that the hermaphrodite oc- curring in the higher animal life, is as legal as that of a perfect sex. 1 cheerfully admit that the subject of stock breeding in general, or by specific features has been treated by far more profound and experienc- ed minds than our own, yet from the unsatisfactory, and undetermined effects of inbreeding, and the yet INTRODUCTORY. 1 9 undecided causes and true character of any or all known injuries, I will ask, if continued inbreeding depresses or dwarfs the progeny, where as has been discovered uniformity of form or color has been ob- tained, why would or could not continued crossbreed- ing be made to produce any desired size, weight, form or color by giving especial attention to the qualities of the animal or animals with which you cross, if there was no positive legal limit to your operations? By a close study of the law of psyshic phenome- na, together with phrenology, after passing through anatomy and physiology we come in close contact with the horse and study him as we would study a man. We soon discover that the horse has as well defind temperaments as a man, and these operating by their peculiar presence and combination, determine the habits, character and strength of the animal. Mr. Sanders in his book on stock breeding, under the head of "General Principles of Stock Breeding," has brought forward many very excellent thoughts, em- bellishing his own with many splendid thoughts of eminent authors, upon the same subject. The influ- ence of Species, climate, changed conditions, habits and treatment, he presents in a very interesting man- ner, as each presents its peculiar effect upon the horse, none of which we can afford to pass unnoticed. Mr. Sanders leads us to understand that some one or more of these influences are brought to bear in form- ing the general character of the horse; and also by taking advantage of them, the breeder can and does mould the character much to his own liking. These thoughts suggests some facts, and some very interest- ing possibilities. If we could at any time obtain to a certainty a pure speciman of pure breed in the horse species, in the genus Equus, we could then begin to study the real character of the horse. But subjected as he has been to such a variety of climates, conditions 20 INTRODUCTORY. and treatments, that it is hard for us to know how near we are to a pure, natural horse. But one thing is very noticable throughout all these changes, improve- ments and deteriorations, that the horse maintains an equilibrium by some secret law, and he still remains a horse. No one animal perhaps has been studied and improved as has been the horse, which has been due, no doubt, to the fact that a horse is a natural serv- ant and companion of man. Strange however, the horse having been so long a subject and ornament of nature's labratory, that so little of his real makeup is clearly known. Mr. Sanders cites many instances and methods of breeding for some peculiar bloodstrain, among which and perhaps the most important is that of inbreeding as a means of obtaining and preserving a desired quality. Now just a moment. The breed- er for quality, selects such animals only as indicate it. The animal must appear to be susceptible of receiving the improvement desired. It must also indicate its power to transmit to its progeny its own qualities. Now what are those qualities, and how are they formed? I have said that the horse had temperament much the same as man, which are for our present pur- pose, the mental the vital, and the motive. In form- ing the character of the horse these temperaments take on many modifications — viz: the billious, sanguine and lymphatic, which take on a sub, or second modi- fication, which is, the motive, mental, the billious; motive mental, the lymphatic mental, the lymphatic motive mental, the nervous mental, and the nervous lymphatic mental. A third modification is only that of the second. In this modification the mental pre- dominates, and hence is said to be a modification of the mental. The same is true of the vital and motive these being the chief or grand temperaments of man and the genus Equus. The function of these temper- aments are, for the mental, intellect, mind, sensibility, INTRODUCTORY. 21 etc. The vital, vigor, motion, symmetery of body, clearness of mind and physical motion or activity. That of the motive, to give bone, its color, size, tex- ture and character of muscle, blood, nerve and general physical strength. Combine these three in either man or horse and you have a perfect specimen. Their modifications always determine how far we are from our perfect specimen. The perfect draft horse take a modification making the motive chief. The Clydes- dale, the English cart horse, and the Percheron, European importations, may furnish us as near a specimen of draft horses as at present is possible to obtain. The large strong bone, short heavy pastern, hard horny hoof in the pure bloods, coarse hairy can- nons, coarse heavy mane and tail, the black, brown or bay color, are positive marks of the motive temper- ament. The slow or sluggish movement, the moderate ease of flesh, the weak or low swing of the upper eye- lid, the small lungs, as compared with the weight of the animal, show the presence of a billious lympha- tic modification, and the absence of the vital, a low mental, a sluggish and slow heart-beat, low excitabil- ity, are conditions suited only for draft purposes. If a draft horse is desired, the breeder will, in making his selections for breeding, attempt at least to combine as many known qualities necessary to his purpose as possible, and once united it becomes necessary to cautiously see that none are lost by crossing with inferior breeds. Temperaments determine the char- acter of the individual, but not ks species. Temper- aments arise from the presence and combined powers of the vital organs, or forces of the body. Temper- aments then become indices to the correspondence of the vital organs. In-breeding for a draft horse means to save a combination against loss by diverse breeds, i. e., against the vital motive first appearing to us in the pure Percheron, giving more speed. Reaching 2 2 INTRODUCTORY. the Cleveland Bay, a horse of rare value for all harness purposes, we get a motive vital temperament with a nervous flux in the vital, modified by the motive, which gives the animal speed, power and endurance, not to be wasted on adverse or lower breeds. Close and careful, if not much, in-breeding is necessary to preserve this combination, since it is true that by what is known as heredities, effects a change in the size, texture and power of the vital organs, and hence a corresponding change in the temperaments. A degenerated, or valueless, species means a degener- ated process of breeding A perfect species, means an unbroken or uninterrupted process of breeding which fixes by hereditary molecular action in building cellular tissue from which organic fixture arises, a fixture in the temperaments, thereby giving a combi- nation which of itself becomes organic and will remain until interrupted by the infusion of a diverse combina- tion from some segregated species. For a moment, and for our purpose at this point, let us discard this and form a new index. Could we closely examine the physiology of the animal from which we now desire a cross, we would glance at the blood, get its color, the relative number of corpuscles, the red to the white, its motion, volume and freedom from fetid matter, which will lead us to the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs and brain, the condition of all which we will find as indicated by the blood. From the brain we pass directly into the nerve plexus, following along their walls, we visit every portion and organ of the body, having gone through the genital machinery and watched the blood as it yielded to the magnetic touch of the two sexes, in nerve contact, rapidly gathering plasmic life and forming a little, wriggling spermal animal, and transmitting it to the opposite electrode, a willing and ready receiver, an infinitesi- mal chamber with an open door into which our little INTRODUCTORY. 23 wriggler glides across the waves of a spermal sea, carrying with it and forming in its new home the temperaments as they are to appear in the life of the future animal. The strong and stylish cart horse, the nimble boulevard driver, the fleet trotting and race horse, each, if carefully bred, have a well defined nerve plexus, involving the vital organs in a process of manufacturing temperaments suited to their own peculiar use. When a desired breed is once obtained, its continuance depends upon how well it is guarded against adverse mixture and how long the one breed can be repeated until you reach perfect equilibrium. I mean equilibrium in the radial cen- tres. If a temperamental quality is to be preserved — say a nervous, vital, mental — giving us the fleetest animal, and in-breeding is resorted to, to perpetuate it and father is bred to daughter, daughter to son, son to sister, sister to father, and so on, you will eventu- ally reach an equilibrium which in someway becomes an absolute bar to further progress, and barrenness and sterility is the inevitable result. You will now ask what about this ? The formation of the magnetic chrystal, or the positive and negative cones, are absolutely necessary to all life, both animal and vegetable. No plant or animal can live without these chrystals in some form or number. No chrystal can form where there is no magnetic or electric cir- cuit. No circuit can be established where there is no attraction. There can be no attraction where the two poles are either positively or negatively electrified. In this case our poles are now repellants. This being true', the germ cell repels the sperm cell, and vice versa. It now occurs to us that there is no union of the two cells thus at magnetic equilibrium, and hence no offspring. Each of the cells thus repelled would become prolific when brought in contact with oppos- itely electrified cells. The earth gives the negative 24 INTRODUCTORY. chrystal, and its surroundings the positive. The earth's satellite is a known magnetic excitant. The inclination of the earth upon its orbit determining its magnetic equator, and other planets in opposing positions all operate as magnetic excitants — relative positions, relative excitant — from which is obtained magnetic motion. The moon, with its low temper- ature, becomes to the earth a high positive pole, and being near it, eqerts a continued energy upon it, and yielding, as it only can, a reflection of the sun's power it must of necessity become the most potential agent in forming the chrystal upon which all life depends. From this view we discover why in-breeding, and in fact out-breeding, where magnetic equilibrium is at- tained, as is proven by many striking instances, results in apparent barrenness or sterility, as well as to arise from some physical deformity. And possibly many physical deformities for which no other satis- factory account can be given, may arise from either physical or mental equilibrium. We will later on learn how to breed for and preserve any quality de- sired and attained, when we have learned more of the law that governs us. Another very interesting phe- nomenon is given by Mr. Sanders under the head of " Influence of First Impregnation." The subject is worthy of more than passing notice in view of the many facts presented in an article by Prof. James Law, of Cornell University, a very learned veterinar- ian. In this article Prof. Law presents the fact that not only the "mare," but other domestic animals — the cow, ewe, sow and bitch — are, quite a per cent, of each species, contaminated by the character of the " male" in first impregnation. The question, why some young mares when impregnated first by a jack then subsequently by a horse, will in the subsequent foal exhibit some features of the jack? And soon with the other animals. Prof. Law here quotes an INTRODUCTORY. 25 argument by McGillivray, who advances the theory that some element or elements from the blood of the fcetus by absorption contaminates the blood of the mother who is never after of pure blood, and hence incapable of producing a pure-bred offspring. Prof. Law's criticism pronounces this theory the merest assumption. He next quotes Mr. Darwin, who varies slightly from McGiliivray's theory and discovers the blood rilled with infinitesimal living, plastic or plasmic germs to be gathered up and used when needed to build up some character or condition in the animal economy. These plasmic germs, Mr. Darwin argues, pass through the membranes, the placenta and uteral wall from the blood of the foetus to the blood of the mother, and circulate and multiply, there by a rapid process affecting at the same time the ovaries of the female so that the ovules and offspring, when impreg- nated by other males and produced by her, are plainly hybridized by the first male. Without offering to illumine superior lights, I am inclined to favor Prof. Law, and at the same time hold himself for the absence of a single sunbeam touching the solution of the problem. If Darwin's theory of absorption of foetal blood causing ' ' sports ' ' or variations in char- acter of offspring should at any time obtain, it would as quickly disappear under the fact of a transfusion of blood from the veins of an animal into the veins of a woman without in the least affecting her after progeny. Why Prof, Darwin confines the function of the gemule to the building of the foetus, or embryo, or to hybri- dize the ovule in process of development in the ovaries and, against much logical argument to the contrary, as is shown by Law and others, losing sight of a more plausible theory, that of plasmic carriers, is a little difficult to understand. It, by the walls of the uterus, through the placenta, the foetus receives its nourishment from the mother, and that nourishment 26 INTRODUCTORY. is utilized in building a new animal, and the function, or one function at least of the placenta, is both stomach and lungs, and also that of all the vital organs of the foetus, and perhaps the lowest secretory, the argument would be plausible that an exchange of gasses, oxygen for carbon and vice versa, was contin- ually going on between the mother and the foetal process, and this being true, it would be possible for spermal gemule from the sire to be caught up in the gaseous process and lodged permanently in the blood of the mother, where with the native gemule it lives and propagates and when called upon projects some part of the parent imagery, and hence the " sport " or variation following in the subsequent impregna- tions. If this admission of Prof. L,aw is correct, then possibly, both Darwin and McGillivray are correct in their absorption theory. I will here ask Prof. Law. Can there arise carbonic acid in the foetus until some tissue breaks down, or falls into disuse, or is rejected in the building process ? Is not the entire foetal struc- ture, from coition to parturition, a continual system of joining molecules and not of tearing down and carrying out? Is not this the " umbilical " function, until the last wall is completed, or even the plexus is tested for its magnetic polarity, or the mental helix of the mother is placed in contact with that of the foetus or the nerve centre ? And is this not the last work of the mother, since nervovital fluid in complete circuit must vitalize or stimulate to action the entire secre- tory system, necessitating oxygen by respiration, which could take place only in open air, where, with- out injury to the mother, carbonic acid can be exhaled, given off b}^ the new machinery in its first work ? Is not mecomium, or first effete matter, in the embryotic intestine put there for the sole purpose of establishing the digestive machinery in the mucous membrane and prevent at the same time adhesion of INTRODUCTORY. 27 their walls until the cylindrical canal is complete ? Now, the mother being the sole builder, could not by any hygienic process to either herself or young, afford a redundance of material for the building, which alone would necessitate the absorption process. From this view appears some physical fallacy in the recipro- cal theory, and still leave the mentioned effect of first impregnation to be accounted for in some other way. The writer is ignorant of any case of maternal " marking " where the mother's objective senses had not previously been affected. Leaving this thought for a moment we listen to Prof. Law as he exposes the Darwin theory of gemule transit from the embryo to the mother's ovarium, there affecting all future ova, and of necessity crossing all future progeny. But Prof. Law, in attempting to shield his criticism, leaves us in the fog by accepting the, to him, more plausible theory of a mutual effect upon adjacent cells in the womb and foetal membranes and, confined there, would not affect the blood of the dam, in future breed- ing. If the foetal gemule is not securely lodged in the literal wall and there unchanged await subsequent impregnation, nor passed into the circulation to await there the next foetal action, then it would occur that the claimed effects are all false, or the effect is from quite a different source. If in our search for the true source of physical foetal marks, we discover that they originate either by heredity or maternal mental im- pression, the only question left for us is how to account for and prevent the occurrence of so much at least as is due to maternal mind. The case men- tioned by Mr. Sanders of the black buck in his father's flock of white sheep, is certainly a clear case of impressed vision, which is but one instance of the great number known to exist. The presence of the black buck, so sudden and strange, produced mental fright, with the white ewes possibly in various stages 28 INTRODUCTORY. of gestation, which fright so impressed their "senses" as to convey color to the offspring. Now what "sense" was thus affected ? A brief notice and my introductory will end. It has long been known that many field and forest animals, and fowls as well, and especially those well domesticated, are, in a very high degree, subjective. This subjective sense re- sides within the motor nerve plexus. It receives and retains impressions from the external or objective sense. By stimulants, narcotics, fevers, frights and passions, the motor cell is made to reproduce the exact impression given through and by the objective or external sense. These subjective projections mat- erialize in exact accordance with the excitement under which they appear. The strength or character of the impressions is in exact accordance with the external force that makes them. The sexual passion coming from the motor nerve cantre returns with any im- pression it may have received from the objective or external management. The sexual passion being a determined excitant, and with the female seeking and obtaining gratification in the male, if the male have no peculiar mark in color or form by which some special impression is made upon the now deeply negative subjective female, the subjective cell now closes with no other impression than the fact of the sexual gratification, and hence the law of production, acting without extraneous pressure, produces an off- spring in regular order. But should the female copulate with a male of peculiar form or color, and this the first contact and hence first impression, hence new nerve cell, she would in this case receive and retain the deepest impression. Subsequent impreg- nations are by reason of the same excited passion and as a rational sequence, the second being to the female a repetition or reproduction of the first, awakens the first impression from its subjective slumber, with any INTRODUCTORY. 2Q. peculiar form or color, or even motion, of which it was composed. And the objective sense or mind being now perfectly passive in the female, her sub- jection now operates in full force and in the local centre at the moment of coition, now hybridizes the sperm cell, which in its hybridized condition deter- mines the form, color, motion and mental character of the foetus in exact proportion to the power of the sub- jective reproduction. I feel safe in saying that not a single instance of a " sport'' or variation in the foetus has ever occurred when, from whatever cause it may have arisen, with an objective female. I may be called upon to explain more in detail, which I per- haps will do in the work on sex breeding in the human species. But in more than a thousand cases in horses, cattle, sheep and swine, and among the various breeds, the writer has failed to observe a single clear case where a foetal variation had occurred with a highly objectivized female. I have but briefly alluded to these questions of apparent abnormalities in order to produce a few parallels to the various theories of sex breeding, as they have appeared and reappeared from time to time and been exhaustively treated by profound scientists, without as yet ap- proaching the real secret. •«f£> SECRET KEY TO STOCK BREEDING FOR SEX. We live in a day when the power of materializing facts is rapidly dispelling the vapors of speculative theory. Science and the Christian's Bible are lock- ing hands to invade the mysterious domain of nature and nature's God. With this holy union, man will discover the splendor of his own being, and that of the power that produced him. It is said that knowl- edge is power. It can as truly be said that conscious- ness of power produces knowledge. Men disbelieve the Bible because of its claimed to be "formulae" of the world's source and progress. To science, much Bible teaching has been and is yet but a complex hypothesis. In this little volume we come to deal with some facts. Facts concerning the physical life of created beings. Our Bible teaches us that God said, in his genesis of creation; "Let there be light in the firma- ment of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years." — Gen. 1-14. "And God said let the earth bring forth the liv- ing creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after his kind, and it was so." — Gen. 1-24. "And God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every liv- ing thing that moveth upon the earth." — Gen. 1-28. KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX 3 1 It could be well said that when Moses wrote these scriptures he lived in a day and with a people who knew that the sun and moon in some way determined and controlled the day and night, and also the stars, for they were lights in the so named firmament. As to who and how the knowledge, that the lights de- termined the seasons as well as the day and night, appeared, may not be clear to us, and just what Moses meant when he said so, may not be fully known until we have learned all the secrets of animal life. Whatever else Moses knew of astronomy more than the length of the day and night, and moon's phases by observation, he, without doubt knew some- thing of the astrological secrets as practiced by the Egyptian astrologer and magician. Moses under- stood well the meaning of God's command when he said replenish and subdue the earth. We can hardly see how man could place the earth under his control until he had well studied the means for doing so. And especially would it be difficult until he had learned the secret law of his own life, by which alone could he subdue himself to himself. And until this was done, not only with himself as a part of the earth, but with the next higher order of animals, which were to serve him for a higher purpose, could he be abso- lute monarch. We admit the correctness of the scrip- ture statement of God's injunction to all living to bring forth after its kind, which if left undisturbed it would continue to do without man's legal assistance, while then as now, the passions governed. But the higher injunction to man to subdue all the earth would evidently mean that the work would not be ac- complished until man so controlled animal nature that he could make it bring forth to his own suiting. Science at the instance of its diligent and com- petent disciples, is apparently approaching the secret of hybridizing with both plant and animal, and will 32 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. no doubt discover the law of blending there as is now so clearly shown with the mineral kingdom, in the laboratories of the chemist. We do not claim that the Bible affords a special formula to us by'which we can at a glance obtain the secret of breeding for sex, but that we can gather some clear inference, that sex breeding was understood and practiced by the an- cients, we think will clearly appear. Astronomy of the nineteenth century was not the astronomy of four, five or six thousand years ago. The "science" of to- day is the fruit of a system of fine arts in the "long ago." Whatever of the artistic was then practiced^, and has since been confirmed by scientific analysis, can now be said to have been empirical. But as must be conceded by the most devoted disciple of modern science, empiricism has often paved the way, or main- tained in its crude practice, some very high status of scientific development. Without following this thought further at present, I will resume my approach to the real purpose of my work. By reference to Ecclesiastes 3:1 we get an expression ascribed to Sol- omon; "To everything there is a season; and a time to every purpose. " Eccl. 3:2; "A time to be born, and a time to die." 8:6 he says: "Because to every purpose there is a time. ' ' From the scriptures I have quoted, Mr. Slaughter inferred very naturally, that, coming as they did from the wisest of men they could not be made to speak their full meaning, and not comprehend a full knowledge of the "time" to bring forth a male or female offspring. The fact that old scripture genelogies teach us that from the beginning of the age of man, the first born of every family, and in almost every instance two, three or four, at least, of the subsequent births were male children, forces us to acknowledge that these old families were favored through successive generations with a very singular class of accidents, or they knew of a time that sexual KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 33 intercourse would produce the sex desired. When we discover from the long used form of national gov- ernment, being the lineal or family form, the head of the family, the father, ruling, and this the only form, and upon the man so much depended, we are inclined to the belief that even in that remote age the law governing sex was well understood. And in addition to this, when we are forced to admit, that in all na- ture, there is not a known physical production or mo- tion resulting from mere chance, or just a happen so, but on the contrary, we see everywhere a reign of law, we are still the more inclined to this belief. And can we not very safely say, that when Solomon said there was a time to be born, he meant he knew there was a time, when a male or female could be produced according to the wish or purpose of the pro- ducer? And can we not insist, that he knew full well the time to copulate, since by Israel's genealogical tables, and his own knowledge of man's superior worth, and the importance of Israel especially, keep- ing his genealogy pure, that he not only knew of a time, a proper time to copulate for sex, but by what unerring influence the sun, moon and stars exerted over man and animals? And we are led still further in the belief that Solomon not only knew the law gov- erning sex in the human family but also among the beasts of the field when he speaks with so much em- phasis as touching the termination of organic life in- dicated in Eccl. 3:18-19-20-21. * * *" And that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them: As one dieth; so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast for all is vanity. All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that (it) goeth upward, and the spirit of the 34 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. beast that (it) goeth downward to the earth. "Sol- omon knew full well that the organic properties of physical man and physical beasts were quite similar in their nature and combination, and the simple fact of form, and intellect, gave to the one no advantage over the other. If we now begin where Solomon dis- misses his vexed and dual simile, and pass back, which we can well do, and say with him that all are alike in death, all are alike in life, all are alike in organic elements; hence all must be alike in their birth, in the primary planting for a birth, all alike in the time to plant, similar in the passion that prompts the planting, and all io some way alike in diversify- ing sex and of necessity there is a law by which all the physical properties of this dual simile are held in place, power and motion. In extending our thought until it embraces more fully Solomon's meaning when he teaches us that he knew there was a time to all things and the same supreme rule applied to the vege- table kingdom that so perfectly governed the animal. We hear him in Keel. 1-2: "A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted. ' ' Anticipat- ing some one's answer, that Solomon only meant that which any sane person will concede, that, with the animal, birth and death could not take place at one and the same time, joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, grief and happiness, anger and docility, hatred and love, were incompatible powers and influences. And to the vegetable, the season, springtime, time to plant, summer to grow, and autumn to gather, or as the lati- tude would indicate, so act, was all he meant. Can we at all acknowledge the superior wisdom of Solo- mon and at the same moment make him squander it in such pure plebian expressions? Wisdom may utter her voice in simplicity, but her every effort is to place the pupil upon a higher plane. But wisdom defeated, musingly utters her own lamentation by the power of KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 35 so great a contrast, as to her alone can appear, and in such words: "As it happeneth to a fool, so it hap- peneth even to me, and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ' '-Keel. 1- 1 5. Viewed from a certain plane Solomon in com- mon with any philosopher, decided it was foolish to be wise, but neither can or could at any time say it was wise to be foolish. So we must conclude that the time to plant seed in the earth to which Solomon refers, was to the future plant, as the time to copulate was to the future animal. Resting our thoughts at this point for the present let us introduce the "moon," the earth's satellite. As will appear in our proofs, the lunar month is divided exactly into two equal parts, commonly known as light and dark or new and full moon. Counting the exact length of a solar year we have 365d, 5I1, 48m, 48s. If in perihellion and perigee the earth's and moon's inclinations were ex- actly the same to the plane of their orbits, giving an exact day length through the complete orbitular cir- cuit, and the moon's path had no orbitular variation, the exact length of a lunar month would be 28d, 2h, 17m, 36s, and the solar month 3od, ioh 15m, 32s. One half the lunar month so counted would be ex- actly i4d, ih, 8m, 48s, which would be the time given each to the old and new moon, or in rural lore, the dark and light moon. Let us at this point say with assured candor, which will appear in our proofs, that to the full moon belongs the male, and to the new, the female sex. The so-called waxing of the moon is from new to old, and the waning, from old to new. The decreasing, or waning moon, fitly represents the male. The vigorous power and greatness of the man, while in the full strength of his masculine glory, is but the monumental splendor of a fixed and unalter- able waning, so strikingly displayed to us in the full moon, whose silver face neither sparkling nor bril- 36 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. liant, shows no life nor light that is not borrowed. And while in the zenith of his glory he looks with soft and charming gaze upon his enchanted, admir- ing minions, he silently waves them his sad adieu, and slowly turning his jeweled face, his steady wan- ing so surely passes him out of sight. The increas- ing or waxing moon just as fitly represents the female. Coming as she did, and yet does, from the uncon- scious slumbering of man's wasting fullness, she ap- pears the decorated delicacy of a superior and splen- did ruin. Her beauty now increasing-, Her attraction now unceasing; All nature bows and yields to her embrace. Held within the enchanting power of her face. With the facts that will herein appear we can very safely say to science; no longer scout the rustic claim, that the "moon" really has to do with both the animal and vegetable kingdom, and that its influence there is in some way an all important factor. A ques- tion might here be asked, why has the moon a path around the earth? Why do we have light and dark moon? What is meant in God's decree that the lesser light should rule the night, and that the stars also should take part in the great influential relation? It will be clearly seen that this very mention indicates that there are relative solar forces existing that no member of our planetary system could afford to loose. And that there was some kind of plauetary alliance, appears evident, from the ebbing and flowing of the tide. With these and kindred thoughts and inter- rogatories,. Mr. Slaughter began with these few dim lights before him, to explore the regions of the un- known, a search for the secret of sex. The fact that the sexes were about equally divided, and that perfect sexing was the rule, suggested to him that there was a law somewhere governing this grand equation. Laboring under many disadvantages Mr. Slaugh- KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 37 ter began a close system of observations among the farm stock. Noting the date of the foal of the mare, he observed that the first heat after foaling expired on the twelfth day. Counting back nine days would bring on the first period of heat on the third day after foaling. This, where the mare was healthy and did well in foaling. When the mare was not bred in first heat, as a rule she would be in heat after the twenty- first day after foaling. This heat would last from seven to nine days, and go out about the twenty- eighth day after foaling. But if bred in either heat, he observed the time the heat expired in which im- pregnation took place, whether in the new or old moon. Following this to foaling, he began to dis- cover that if the mare was bred in the old moon, or that the heat expired in the old moon, the foal would be a male. On the other hand, if the impregnation heat expired in the new moon the foal would be a female. Here another question arose, which was all important. How many days belonged to each moon? And did they follow or precede the moon? To de- termine this, his observations had, necessarily, to be very close. He here observed that if a mare was bred the three last days next preceeding the full moon, and the impregnating heat ran six days into and including the day the moon fulled, the offspring would be a male. Also if the impregnating period terminated any day after the third day, after full moon, and one day before the change or new moon, the offspring would be a male. Mr. Slaughter further observed, that it would be safe to breed as far as the fifth day after the full moon, supposing this to be the first day of the heat, for it would then terminate one day before the new moon having had then, nine days to run. Observing and applying this rule the result was in- variably a male offspring. He then applied the same rule, and closely observed the result, to the new 38 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. moon, and in every case the offspring was a female. These closely made observations settled in his mind that the full moon controlled the next succeeding fourteen days including the day oi fulling, and ter- minating one day preceeding the day of change, or new moon. He also observed the same, i e, that the new moon governed the next succeeding fourteen days after and including the new moon. Mr. Slaugh- ter's attention was called, early in this sex-breeding search, to the question of barrenness in the female and sterility in the male, deformed wombs and the herm- aphrodite. He knew ail these questions had been quietly resting with physicians and horseologists, un- der the almost unanimous decision that they were only freaks of nature. This did not satisfy him, and he asked himself, what is a freak of nature and why do they appear, and in so many ways? And could we not know if the freak was the merest chance, or the violation or distortion of some fixed law? Mr. Slaughter was keeping, and kept, his search pro- foundly secret for more than twenty years, choosing to make a slow progress, if progress he could make at all, rather than risk evoking criticism and ridicule, in case his search was fruitless, or have but a small share of the glory in case he succeeded. And being a man of retiring, plebian habits, this course to him was not difficult to pursue. But the questions above enumer- ated still remained to him vexed and difficult, and the more so, when in a casual way he would put them to some skilled physician or veterinarian, and be answered, only a freak of nature. And to the ques- tion of sex, it was just a kiud of happen-so. With all these evasive and unsatisfactory answers from grad- uates in anatomy and physiology, Mr. Slaughter was not dismayed. The conviction that surely there was some key to the mystery held a persistent influence over his mind. The hermaphrodite among the do- KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 39 mestic animals was really the first cause of his search for the solution of the great sex problem. At the age of fifteen years Mr. Slaughter for the first time saw a hermaphrodite. It was of the human family and quite young enough that the circumstances of its birth were sufficiently vivid to furnish Mr. Slaughter, though but a boy, a basis from which to begin to reason. His first question, why this double sexed or non-sexed being? Why did its nature permit this? Was it law, or no law? Why were there not more of them, or none at all? And were they in any other physical way affected? Was the only visible deformity in the procreative organs? If so, why so? It had a strong sexual passion and no possible way to gratify it. If this was a mere freak of nature, was not nature in this inexcusably cruel? Were the parents in any way responsible? Delicate as were his questions, Mr. Slaughter learned that both were properly sexed and at time of copulation were not in any perceivable way unduly influenced. Mr. Slaughter, young as he was, was so impressed with this "freak" that he deter- mined to know the true cause, if it was possible to obtain it. He was then living with his parents in Giles Co. , Tenn. , and he applied to the most skilled physicians of his county to explain; but to to his sur- prise they said in answer to his questions, they did not know, it was a freak of nature. But did these physicians know all that could be known of this pe- culiar freak? The boy said, there is a correct answer and I will get it. He applied to other physicians and learned men, but as often received the same unsatis- factory answer. He used the little advantage he had with books, but to no success. Gathering up the old legendary practice of planting certain crops "in the moon," and seeing, as he thought, some decided ef- fect, he reasoned that if the moon had this influence upon the vegetable kingdom, why did it not in some way affect the animal? And if so, would not or could 4-0 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. not, the question of sex be known, and settle his hermaphrodite problem? Two other hermaphrodites came under his notice, one in the horse, and one in the swine. By close inquiry he learned that the breeding of the mare that foaled the hermaphrodite colt was done right on or very near the dividing line between the two moons. But did this decide any- thing; if so, what was it? Hermaphrodites were too infrequent to furnish him the sole material for his study. Now if he could decide the question as to whether the moon in any way controlled the sex, from this hypothesis, he could determine the appearance of the hermaphrodite. And might it not also prove that the direction in which the scientific world had been looking for an understanding of this phenomenon, was not the right one? Firmly beleiving he was in the right path, Mr. Slaughter continued taking notes during the breeding season, noting the day the foal was dropped and counting as a rule the twelfth day after foaling as the end of the first heat. Should a mare be bred in this heat, and prove to be in foal, in which moon did the heat terminate? In these cases, and there were enough of them, where the mare was bred and impregnated in the first heat, to get satis- factory data, that the first heat terminating in either new or old moon, did without failure determine the sex, To repeat here what I have already shown, and which appears in our diagram, that in the cases just named, where the twelfth day of first, and impregnat- ing heat ended after full and before the new moon, the foal was a male, but, if terminating after the new and before the full moon, the foal would be a female. Following with these observations into second, third or more heats, in every case where the impregnating heat terminated in either moon as above stated, the result was the same. Feeling sure that he had thus empirically discovered the secret of breeding for sex, KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 4 1 Mr. Slaughter turned his attention to the hermaphro- dite with some assurance that he could learn some- thing definite of its nature and cause. Reasoning from the facts appearing in his hypothesis, if the full moon conception determines the male, and the new moon the female, was there not a point somewhere between the old and new, or new and old, where there would be no sex, or be both? This seemed to him so plaus- ible that with renewed anxiety he sought more and additional data from which he could obtain some re- liable proof. Mr. Slaughter had, by close study and observation, learned enough of the hermaphrodite index, as written in the face and body motion by which he could determine who was a hermaphrodite, whether in male or female attire. While a young man he chanced to form an acquaintance with one in female attire, and taking its place as one of a circle of fashionable young ladies. He courted an intimate acquaintance with this "young lady" for the purpose, if possible, of making or having made a close exami- nation of her, or its person, that he might learn as nearly as possible the exact nature of the deformity. Learning as he did for sure that she, it, was a her- maphrodite, he pursued his purpose until by mutual consent, he had permission to make a thorough ex- amination. In this case a small vaginal cavity was found in or near the proper place for a female, and terminating abruptly at or near where the "neck" of the womb should be in a well sexed female. What was above this closure to represent the uterus, or the ovarium he did not minutely determine. But the fact that no menses appeared and no symptom of retention was perceptible, he inferred that the ovarium was as incomplete as the uteral cavity; which would argue that there were no defined ovaries, no fallopian tubes, no uterus, i. e., nothing defined, and hence no female sex. Searching for the male procreative duad, he 42 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. found no testicles, no penis other than a small pro- tuberance, apparently nothing more than a protrud- ing clitoris, which was of no perceptible use as the urine was voided bv the vaginal cavity. Mr. Slaugh- ter further learned that the sexual passion was very strong, almost incontrolable, and quite continuous, and no visible means of gratification. At this point quite an important feature became very noticable. The face had no well defined masculine marks to a casual observer, and especially when treated to a cos- metic coating. The absence of the male procreative organs, the choice of female attire, and preference of young men for social companions, convinced Mr. Slaughter that this was a case where ovum matura- tion occurred with the mother exactly on the new moon, having descended from the ovarium in the old moon, which act will be taken up later on. At this time Mr. Slaughter was closely following his hypothe- sis, and of necessity was forced to rely, as will be clearly seen, upon the strength of a logical theory, which to him must stand until disproved by facts to the contrarjr. Before proceeding further we will try to exhibit by suitable plate or diagram, a lunar month showing the old and new moon with the days belong- ing to each, and the exact point at which conception takes place, to give a perfect male and a perfect fe- male, a slightly deformed womb causing barrenness, and a dormant genatile organism causing sterility. 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