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generation, she is not one-sixteenth only, but nearly 

 nine-sixteenths of pure ' Favorite ' blood. This arises 

 from ' Favorite ' having been used repeatedly on cows 

 descended from himself. ... In the case of ' Charmer,' 

 we find of her great-grandams one was the produce 

 of ' Favorite.' None of her progenitors in the im- 

 mediately preceding generation were the produce of 

 that bull, but of those in the next and successive gen- 

 eration preceding, there were, so far as known, 2, 8, 

 25, 58, 101, and 99, respectively got by him. . . . 



' " In the pedigree of ' Charmer ' we repeatedly 

 meet with ' Comet ; ' ' Comet ' was by ' Favorite,' and 

 his dam, < Young Phoenix,' was also by < Favorite,' 

 with f George ; ' ' George ' was by '. Favorite,' and his 

 dam, ' Lady Grace,' was also by ' Favorite,' with 

 < Chilton ; ' ' Chilton ' was by c Favorite,' and his dam 

 also was by c Favorite,' with < Minor ; ' ' Minor ' was 

 by ' Favorite,' and his dam also was by ' Favorite,' 

 with 6 Peeress ; ' she was by ' Favorite,' and her dam 

 also was by ' Favorite,' with ' Bright Eyes ; ' she was 

 by ' Favorite,' and her dam also by ' Favorite,' with 

 i Strawberry ; ' she was by i Favorite,' and her dam 

 by ' Favorite ; ' < Dandy ' and c Moss Kose ' among the 

 cows, and ' North Star ' among the bulls, are also of 

 similar descent." * 



An examination of the pedigree will show that 

 Charmer traces four hundred and eight lines of de- 

 scent to Favorite, and that bulls descended from half 

 brother and sister were used eighteen times, as fol- 

 lows : Midas five, Barmpton six, Young Lancaster 



1 Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1860, pp. 270, 271, 

 279, 294. See also Goodale's " Principles of Breeding," p. 97. 



