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duction of a pedigree for such a one. Nothing will 

 now go down but the red, the white, the Hubback 

 yellow-red, and the roans — light or rich. 



And if beyond selecting for his purpose of the best 

 specimens to be found in the line he has taken up, he 

 is tempted, as was Charles Collings, to pass the line 

 of the particular species he has a fancy for, he takes 

 care to combine by way of fresh infusion only animals 

 thorough-bred of their sort, again thorough-bred in 

 the sense I have defined. For instance, with the 

 primest specimens of the old native stock about his 

 locality, derived originally from Holland, he blended 

 of the purest and most firmly established sort he 

 could find, in each case with special view to some 

 particular improvement ; wishing to lower the height 

 and give squareness, he crossed with a pattern 

 Galloway cow of ancient lineage ; for richness of milk 

 he interwove an Alderney, also of long established 

 quality and peculiar excellence ; for the cream-white 

 colour, and perchance the hardihood, he had recourse 

 to the Tanqueray wild herd. Then came the breed- 

 ing in and in, with the immediate consequence of 

 confirmed resemblance, fine bone, increased aptitude 

 to fatten, but with the ultimate unhappiness of a 

 scrofulous tendency, roach back, and infirm constitu- 

 tion, from which some strains of the more terribly 

 high-bred continue to suffer. 



Never breed from the diseased or the defective, no 

 matter what the ailment, as all infirmities are apt to 

 be hereditary. A broken-winded mare will occasion- 

 ally breed ; I have a Shetland pony now that I 

 bought in foal ; very badly touched as the ex- 



