PEDIGREE. 



THOSE who are at the expense of introducing a 

 foreign breed of cattle, are generally desirous of 

 preserving it untainted from interbreeding with the 

 cattle by which they are surrounded. They desire 

 also to preserve some memoranda of each individual 

 of the foreign breed, both for present use and future 

 reference. They are thus enabled to breed them 

 more understandingly, for they know whether the 

 animals mated are akin or not, as also whether a 

 particular animal has originated from ancestry of a 

 particular or desirable type. If there be one herd 

 only of the new stock in the country, the owner must 

 have notes either written, or preserved in memory, 

 or the stock is likely to deteriorate. If he trusts to 

 memory, and upon his death the stock passes into 

 the hands of strangers, without further knowledge of 

 the animals than comes of seeing them, much of the 

 value of the animals have departed with the demise 

 of their owner. When the new breed is somewhat 

 disseminated, and there are many herds, breeders 

 find it advisable to seek occasionally an interchange 

 of blood. But no breeder will do this without the 

 fullest assurance of the stock he seeks being pure 

 bred, and without knowing, if possible, from what 

 parentage the animal has come. 



