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sible inbreeding for thirty years. They originated from 

 a cow with calf which was bought by Mr. Truman A. 

 Cole, of Solsville, N. Y., of a drover who had just pur- 

 chased it at auction in Knoxboro, N. Y., v;here a herd of 

 pure-bloods, because of the death of the owner, had been 

 sold under the auctioneer's hammer. The cow dropped 

 a bull calf, which was bred to its mother, then to both 

 mother and sister; and this system of close inbreeding, 

 even sire to daughter, as well as brother to sister, has 

 been continued down to the present time, or for thirty 

 years, as before stated. This has fixed and intensified 

 the qualities, and at the same time secured the greatest 

 possible uniformity and really established a breed, sep- 

 arate and distinct from all others. This is the way in 

 which all the valuable breeds have been established, and 

 this is the first persistent and successful effort at estab- 

 lishing a purely American breed that has ever been 

 made. While carefully watching results and selecting 

 for breeding purposes, Mr. Cole has steadily refused to 

 be turned from his course, or to change his purpose of 

 establishing a uniform butter breed, and of testing the 

 fallacy of the popular notion about the injurious effects 

 of inbreeding. His thirty years of the closest inbreeding 

 have shown no such disastrous effects, but, on the con- 

 trary, have produced only good ones. There is no failure 

 in form or constitution. The only marked external 

 change, save in securing the greatest uniformity, has 

 been in the gradual change of color. The original ani- 

 mals were pale red and white, the white being along the 

 back from the shoulders to the tail, down the hind-quar- 



