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Relative intensity of blood lines and approximately relative influence 

 of different generations and individuals for ten generations backwards. 



The statement set forth by this table shows how little 

 influence is derived from one individual in the ancestry ten 

 generations back. Yet the value of blood lines depends also 

 on the character of the breeding. If the ancestry is pure, 

 and contains the names of animals of distinction within the 

 same family lines, then it will mean much more to the breeder 

 who understands pedigrees, than it will if the inheritance 

 shows no family names of value. 



The merit value of a pedigree is receiving more and more 

 attention. By merit value is meant the number of animals 

 in the pedigree that show producing records of some kind. 



Pr.lro'. Ray Duke 42S13 



Sire of Pedro's Rosaline. 16 



l .ia..s 8 4's*W' Fr ' nc " 



245.J 

 7 da.f ' '- l..u <y of 



Pedro 3187 ... 



Pedro's Happy Mald a * S 26 V4 Hcttle of Brlarcliftef'lS 1 

 Pedro's Royal Prln- I Leila of Brlarcllffe .17 6 



Pedro's PaliTy "!l"l9 10 "es"n Ibs. fox. in'V days'] TorTAda 



Pedro's Minette 19 < Test 778 Ibs. 1 oz. In 1 year. 



Pedro's Marjoram 1 6 Dai: 



Pedro's Lady 18 12 



In 1 ye 

 Pedro. 



Fig. 147. 



The pedigree of a son of the noted Jersey bull Pedro, showing merit 

 in three generations on both sides. From a sale catalogue. 



