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THE PEDIGREE OF BELVIDERE 



Figure 15. The purchase of Belvidere (1706) from Mr. Stevenson is considered to 

 mark the turning point in Bates' career. Note that Belvidere's sire and dam were full 

 brother and sister, making possible condensation of the pedigree as indicated. 



their date of birth and the dam and 

 sire of each. The coefficient of in- 

 l)reeding has been calculated as de- 

 scribed", for all of these animals and is 

 given in the next three columns. The 

 relationship of the sires and dams of 

 the Duchesses is given in the next 

 cf)lumn. Finally it is of interest to 

 find how far there was relationship to 

 Favourite, the bull to which the greater 

 part of the inbreeding is due. The 

 last three columns are devoted to this 

 purpose, dealing with the individual 

 and her sire and dam respectively. 



All ])edigrees have been traced to the 

 beginning of the Coates' herd books in 

 making these calculations. They natur- 

 ally become very complex after a few 

 generations. The labor in calculating 

 the coefficients is not so great as might 

 l)c imagined, however, since the calcu- 



lation of the contribution to inbreeding 

 or relationship made by two animals 

 on opposite sides of a pedigree can be 

 used in all other pedigrees in which 

 these same animals appear on opposite 

 sides. In the course of the work a 

 list was made of the contributions due 

 to the various important sires with 

 each other and with the more impor- 

 tant cows. The parentage of the sires 

 is given in Table I. It will be noticed 

 that all but four of the twenty-five 

 of them were from sires that appear 

 earlier in the list and that eleven of 

 them were from Duchess cows. The 

 pedigrees can be practically completed 

 l)y reference to the notes and to the 

 ]:)edigrees of Favourite", 3nd Hubback, 

 Belvidere, Gambier and Norfolk 

 (Figures 15-18). 



