130 PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. 



Farm, to establish the Creampot breed,* of which, as 

 little has been heard since his death, it is fair to pre- 

 sume that it has dropped into the level of common 

 grade cattle, no systematic and continued effort has 

 come to our knowledge. Consequently such as may 

 be deemed absolutely the best is a thing of the future ; 

 they do not yet exist — and there is no probability that 

 the desideratum will soon be attained. We Yankees 

 are an impatient people ; we dislike to wait, for any 

 thing, or to invest where five, ten, twenty or fifty years 

 may be expected to elapse before satisfactorj^ dividends 

 may be safely anticipated. 



Still, if all would begin to-day, to use what skill and 

 judgment they have, or can acquire, in breeding only 

 from the best of such as they have, coupling with refer- 

 ence to their peculiarities, and consigning to the butcher 

 as fast as possible every inferior animal, and if, in addi- 

 tion, they would do what is equally necessary, namely, 

 improve their general treatment as much as lies in their 

 power, there would result an immediate, a marked and 

 a steadily progressive improvement in stock. To the 

 acclimation or Americanization already acquired, would 

 be added increased symmetry of form and greater value 

 in many other respects. This is within the power of 



* This was commenced by a cross of Coelebs, a Short-horn bull, 

 upon a common cow of remarkable excellence. 



