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taking Mr. Charles Ceiling's famous bull Favorite (252) one 

 of the most celebrated of the variety as the individual, the 

 number of descents from whom, in the pedigrees of some of our 

 living short-horns, is to be ascertained." Accordingly, I have 

 made the count, in the cases of several animals selected for that 

 purpose; and, for the better understanding of the subject, their 

 pedigrees, as contained in the Herd Book, have been transcribed, 

 and, together with the result of the count as made for each, given 

 below." 



Mr. H. then gives the names and pedigrees, from the Ameri- 

 can Herd Book, of eight thorough bred short-horns, some of 

 them bred in England, and imported into America, with their 

 produce since arriving here the names of which we have not 

 room, nor is it necessary, to insert each of which number from 

 672 to 8,104 descents through all their collateral ancestry 

 into their own blood from the aforesaid bull Favorite (.252). 



Thus, although our short-horn breeders, by the substitution of 

 "new crosses," as they suppose, are infusing fresh blood into 

 their herds, are, in reality, persistently breeding back into essen- 

 tially the same blood with which they started, or still retain, 

 varied only by their change to different localities, yet deriving 

 their lineage from the same original ancestry. 



It is so with all improved breeds, or races of cattle, and other 

 animals. A very few breeders and improvers, with a few well 

 chosen animals, started the system, and from the produce which 

 they reared from them, scattered through numerous individual 

 hands, they have spread and multiplied, as did the children of 

 Israel first descended from Abraham, into their own chosen races, 

 each of their kind, but all chiefly one blood, and one lineage. 



We feel much indebted to the acumen and industry of Mr. 

 Humrickhouse for his hint and illustration. 



We have discussed his subject of breeding, at some length, 

 mainly historically, rather than from a wish to commend it, as 



