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Aloiij; wiHi other breeders who have had considerable experience, 

 Miller & t^ibley have had marked success with a number of inbred 

 animals. It is possible that some few facts in regard to the pedi- 

 grees of these animals may be instructive. The Jersey cow, Ade- 

 laide of St. Lambert, that gave for :Miller & Sibley over one ton of 

 milk in a month, thus winning the world's Jersey championship, is 

 four times descended from Stoke Fogis 3rd within five generations 

 and has seventj^-five per cent, of the blood of the so-called St. Lam- 

 bert family. But of marked significance, as it seems to me, is the 

 fact that her maternal grandsire, though not in himself a great dairy 

 sire, has at least the negative virtue of a totally different lineage, and 

 contributed twenty-flve per cent, of her blood. In view of the breed- 

 ing of this cow, and of many others that could have been instanced, 

 and bearing in mind the history of the Alpheas and St. Heliers, the 

 question suggests itself whether it would not be well for those who 

 are concentrating all their energies on breeding "pure St. Lamberts" 

 to make now and then a judicious outcross, and thus achieve greater 

 results than heretofore, not to mention preserving the excellence the 

 family already has. 



The bull Ida's Eioter of St. L. owned by Miller & Sibley until his 

 fifteenth year, leads all other bulls in the Jersey breed, as is well 

 known, in the average amount of butter yield for thirty-three tested 

 daughters. This bull was a grandson and great grandson of Stoke 

 Pogis 3d and with no outcross of blood or either the sire's side or 

 dam's from the so-called St. Lambert family. Yet of his two high- 

 est tested daughters one of them had so little blood on the dam's 

 side that was found on the sire's that it is hardly worth mentioning; 

 and the other had not one drop of blood through her dam in common 

 with that of her sire. The animal I am now referring to is no other 

 than Ida Marigold, who won at the World's Fair four important 

 prizes, two of them being in practical contests and two in the show- 

 ring, and one of each being a sweepstakes. Another great cow 

 owned at Prospect Hill Stock Farm was La Petite Mere 2d, who for 

 many years led all other cows in the Jersey breed for a yearly pro- 

 duction of milk. It is true that she was both a daughter and a 

 grandanghter of Stoke Pogis 1259, Imp., and that he, in turn, was 

 both a son and a grandson of Young Rioter 751, English Herd Book; 

 but alongside of this great success for inbreeding let us set Matilda 

 4th, merely a daughter of Stoke Pogis 1259, Imp. She was owned 

 by us at the same time that we owned La Petite Mere 2d. Matilda 

 4th gave more milk by the day and week, and would have given 

 more by the year if she had begun the twelve months record at the 

 same time as the other cow, so that she too might have had the 

 'benefit of grass in the spring to keep up her flow during the last 

 few months. Furthermore, her butter capacity was about one-third 

 greater than that of La Petite Mere 2d. 



