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for several years, they both were of great scale, 

 and they both lived to good old ages. It would 

 certainly appear that they were possessed of great 

 constitutional vigor. 



Another Outcross Failed. Another attempt at an 

 outcross through the sire was made in the purchase 

 of Mark Hanna 74230 at the close of his show career 

 at Chicago in 1901. This bull had an infusion of 

 the blood of Anxiety 4th and it was hoped that he 

 might prove a satisfactory sire in the herd. In 

 this the buyers were sorely disappointed and Mark 

 Hanna soon went the way of others to the butcher. 

 This was the last attempt to get an outcross in the 

 herd through the sire. Efforts were continually 

 made to get in fresh blood through cows which had 

 been purchased from other herds, but in the main 

 the blood of Anxiety 4th through his descendants 

 has been steadily concentrated, with no perceptibly 

 bad results.* 



Parallel Cases of Close Breeding. It thus appears 

 that we see repeated in this case the experience of 

 the greatest of modern breeders of Shorthorns, the 

 late Amos Cruickshank of Sittyton, Aberdeenshire, 

 Scotland. Those who are familiar with the story 

 will find in Champion of England and Anxiety 4th 

 parallel cases. In his later years Mr. Cruickshank 

 had the same experience as did Messrs. Gudgell & 

 Simpson in trying to find a way to successfully in- 



*James R. Gudgell of this firm died on June 2, 1896, and T. A. 

 Simpson on Jan. 4, 1904. The herd is now owned and operated 

 by Charles Gudgell, the original Hereford man of the firm, as- 

 sisted by his son Frank O. Gudgell. 



