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in progress. The ripe fruit of generations of 

 careful breeding is before us. We note the 

 size and excellence of the various classes as 

 they came forward upon that occasion to be 

 judged; the "bloom" and the wealth of flesh 

 and hair! We turn to our catalogue. All 

 trace at last to that same little valley of the 

 Tees; some through Kirklevington, some 

 through Warlaby, some through Sittyton, and 

 some through other channels found in the 

 broad-flowing currents of the breed. The 

 crowds throng about the arena, where prince 

 and peasant, great land-owners and tenant 

 farmers and visitors from every clime meet to 

 do honor to England's most widely-dissemi- 

 nated race of domesticated animals, and, indi- 

 rectly, to bear testimony to the noble service 

 rendered to the cause of agriculture by the 

 builders of this breed. 



A farmer's cow. The average farmer, as 

 distinguished from the dairyman and profes- 

 sional feeder, maintaining cattle as an inci- 

 dental, albeit necessary, feature of a well- 

 ordered system of mixed husbandry, requires 

 not only milk, cream and butter in good sup- 

 ply for domestic consumption, but the cows 

 that provide him with those products are also 

 expected to raise a calf each year that can be 

 profitably utilized in consuming the grass and 

 "roughness" of the farm; so that the males 



