146 PRINCIPLES OF STOCK-BREEDING. 



from Favorite, and Bed Kose by Harbinger, 1344 

 times. So the produce of the two are descended from 

 him 2399 times." * 



Lord of the Valley and his sisters are three six- 

 teenths of the blood of Pilot, although he had not 

 been used for five generations. 



They are also five-sixteenths of the blood of Buck- 

 ingham. 



Lord of the Isles (18267) is an example of still 

 closer breeding ; he was got by Sir Samuel out of Red 

 Rose, by Harbinger. Sir Samuel was got by Crown 

 Prince out of Charity, the dam of Crown Prince. Ac- 

 cording to the same authority, the out-crosses made use 

 of by Mr. Booth had a strong infusion of the blood 

 of Favorite, Mussulman having sixty-four crosses, 

 Lord Lieutenant one hundred and six crosses, and 

 Matchem fifty-two crosses of this favorite progenitor 

 of the improved Short-Horns. 



Diagram Y shows the extent to which in-and-in 

 breeding has been practised with the Herefords. 



Mr. Price, the celebrated breeder of Herefords, 

 says : " I bought from Mr. ^ompkins a considerable 

 number of his cows and heifers, and two more bulls. 

 I have kept the blood of these cattle unadulterated 

 for forty years, and Mr. Tompkins assured me that he 

 had bred the whole of his stoclT from two heifers and 

 a bull, selected by himself early in life, without any 

 cross of blood. * * it 



" My herd of cattle has, therefore, biNi bred m^" 

 and-in, as it is termed, for upward of eighty years, 

 and by far the greater part of it in a direct line, on 



1 Carr's " History," p. 40. 



