IN-AND-IN BREEDING. 



suit in many cases in delicacy of constitution, and in 

 some where connected with pampering, in sterility. f 



Col. Jaques, of the Ten Hills Farm near Boston, 

 imported a pair of Bremen geese in 1822. They were 

 bred together till 1830, when the gander was acciden- 

 tally killed. Since then the goose bred with her off- 

 spring till she was killed by an attack of dogs in 1852. 

 Great numbers were bred during this time, and of course 

 there was much of the closest breeding, yet there was 



ite.' She is one-sixteenth 'Favorite' on that account, but the cow 

 to which he was then put was also descended from ' Favoi-ite,' and 

 so are each of the other seven bulls and seven cows which stand on 

 the same level of descent with the gr. gr. g. dam of ' Charmer. ' And 

 in fact it will be found on examination that in so far as ' Charmer's' 

 pedigree is known, which it is in some instances to the sixteenth 

 generation, she is not one-sixteenth only but nearly nine-sixteenths 

 of pure Favorite blood. This arise's from 'Favorite' having been 

 used repeatedly on cows descended from himself. In the pedigree of 

 ' Charmer' we repeatedly meet with ' Comet' — ' Comet' was by ' Fa- 

 vorite' and his dam ' Young Phoenix' was also by 'Favorite ;' with 

 ' George' — ' George' was by ' Favorite' and his dam ' Lady Grace' 

 was also by 'Favorite;' with ' Chilton' — ' Chilton' was by 'Favorite' 

 and his dam was also by ' Favorite;' with 'Minor' — 'Minor' was by 

 ' Favorite' and his dam also was by ' Favorite;' with ' Peeress' — she 

 was by 'Favorite' and her dam also by 'Favorite;' with 'Bright 

 Eyes' — she was by ' Favorite' and her dam also by ' Favorite;' with 

 'Strawberry' — she was by 'Favorite' and her dam by 'Favorite;' 

 'Dandy,' 'Moss Rose,' among the cows and 'North Star' among 

 the bulls are also of similar descent. 



There is no difficulty therefore in understanding how this name 

 appears repeatedly in any given generation of the pedigree of any 

 given animal of the Short-horn breed." 



t Journal Royal Agricultural Society, volume 20, page 297. 



