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would in time be put in total eclipse. The live- 

 stock kingdom of his day was one great conglom- 

 eration of local types and nondescripts. The "im- 

 proved Shorthorn" was as yet only incubating along 

 the banks of the River Tees. In the abutting counties 

 of York and Durham were many different sorts known 

 by various names, all of which were soon to be suc- 

 cessfully unified by the cement of inbreeding applied 

 so persistently by the Shorthorn fathers after a con- 

 templation of BAKEWELL'S handiwork. Over in Here- 

 fordshire at this same time were equally varied 

 assortments of cattle soon to be brought together 

 by a resort to the same magic power in the hands 

 of BENJAMIN TOMKINS, his contemporaries and suc- 

 cessors. At a later date ELLMAN fairly made the 

 Southdown sheep from BAKEWELL precedents. And 

 so we might go up and down almost the entire line 

 of the modern breeds and sub-varieties, and find 

 in almost every instance that the first great results 

 have been obtained primarily through the mating of 

 near kin in accordance with the Bakewellian law. 

 While his name has not been given to any of the 

 types that owe their origin directly to his demon- 

 strations, over in France they have created a 

 beautiful breed of sheep, by a judicious blending of 

 Leicester and fine-wool blood, which they call the 



