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is a portrait of the closely in-and-in bred bull Cotmore 

 (376) : " He was the winner of the first prize in his 

 class at the first meeting of the Boyal Agricultural 

 Society of England, held at Oxford. He was also a 

 winner of many local prizes, and was, perhaps, one of 

 the finest bulls ever seen ; his colossal proportions were 

 something very astounding, as may be inferred from 

 the fact that the live weight was thirty-five cwt. 



" He was bred by Mr. Jeffries, of the Grove, near 

 Leominster." 



The pedigree of Cotmore, given in Diagram 7, 

 shows the closest in-and-in breeding. 



" Sovereign (404), when at the age oft. fifteen years, 

 was his sire, but he was not of the same enormous 

 size, although acknowledged to be one of the best 

 stock-getters of his day. He was bred by Mr. Fewer, 

 and very closely in-and-in bred." 1 



The pedigree shows that the sire of Cotmore 

 (Sovereign) was the produce of (Favorite and Count- 

 ess) full brother and sister, their sire and dam (Young 

 Wellington and Cherry) were half brother and sister, 

 and their grandams (Silky and Old Cherry) were 

 half-sisters. Lottery, the sire of Cotmore's dam, was 

 not only closely bred, but we find him descended 

 from the same animals as Sovereign. The pedigree 

 of Cotmore's grandam is not given in the " Herd-Book." 



Mr. George Butts, of Manlius, New York, has re- 

 cently furnished an instance of continued close breed- 

 ing in his family of Short-Horns. He says : " I bred 

 Apricot's Gloster 2500 upon the second generation 



1 "Hereford Breed of Cattle," by T. Duckham, p. 18, in vol. vi. of 

 "Hereford Herd-Book." 



