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and Durham. By uniting with these 

 cattle the Dutch Shorthorns absorbed 

 the white colour of the Roman cattle 

 and along with it the roan, which is 



a hybrid between the Dutch and 



1 Roman colours. About the same 

 ^ time the Shorthorns also absorbed 



rthe blood of some of the native black 

 cattle, but the black colour at any 

 A rate was soon bred out, while, even 

 ^ to the present day, the blood of 



5 ^ Anglo-Saxon red cattle has been 

 I J frequently absorbed, the colour in this 

 ^ p case to be retained. 



Having been originally of several 

 types, as Culley told us, and having 

 absorbed this strange blood in 

 England, the Shorthorns also re- 

 "l^ ^1 quired a Bakewell ; and him they 

 found in Charles Colling, who had 

 been a pupil with the great master 

 himself. The following diagrammatic 

 pedigree of Charles Colling's great 

 bull Comet will show how closely 

 S^J i'^t' he followed Bakewell. 



A Here, again, we have a breeder 



~ I who, like Bakewell, started with the 



f4 ^ best stock he could find, and, by in- 



^ "^ breeding, eliminated the chances of 



^ VI uncertamty m their progeny ; and 



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