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aimed at this model; so that there is no great difficulty in 

 getting all the fresh blood required, without incurring danger 

 to the model. 



A Good Bull. 



It has been pertinently said that " the bull is half the herd," 

 and it is therefore of the greatest importance that only good 

 bulls should ever be allowed to propagate the species. But 

 what is a good bull? A well-formed, well-grown animal of 



FIG. 13. DEXTER KERRY BULL, "PARADOX." 

 The property of Mr. Martin J. Sutton, Kidmore Grange, Caversham, Oxon. 



good colour and constitution is not by any means necessarily 

 a good bull, though a good bull must possess these qualities. I 

 have elsewhere written : " The capacity of a bull to transmit to 

 his offspring his own peculiar properties, or mould, or excel- 

 lences of any kind depends on his having inherited them from 

 a succession of ancestors endowed with similar characteristics." 

 There is many a good-looking bull, not true-bred as to quali- 

 ties, whose power of impressing his good looks or other points 

 of merit on his offspring has been found illusory, and this for 



