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beautiful," by which designation she still lives in 

 agricultural history. 



One of her daughters was mated with a bull 

 that had been produced by another daughter, the 

 progeny being a bull calf called in commemoration 

 of the old cow's precedence at Eryholme Favorite, 

 with which was at once commenced at Ketton a 

 most extraordinary course of concentration. For 

 years this bull was used almost indiscriminately upon 

 his own offspring, often to the third and in one or 

 two instances to the fifth and sixth generations, 

 and with results that astounded all England and 

 aroused even distant America. The get of Favorite 

 were not only the most noted cattle of their day 

 in all Britain, but his immediate descendants consti- 

 tuted a large percentage of the entire foundation 

 stock upon which existing Shorthorn herd book 

 records stand. He was even bred back to his own 

 dam, the produce being a heifer, Young Phoenix; 

 and to still further test the power of BAKEWELL'S 

 scheme in dealing with such plastic clay this heifer 

 was then bred to her own sire, the issue of that 

 doubly-incestuous union being the bull Comet (155), 

 the pride of his time and the first beast of the 

 cattle kind to sell for $5,000! Mr. FOWLER had 

 once refused a thousand guineas for a BAKEWELL 



