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size, color, and disposition, which is very wild. Their identity 

 with the ancient aurochs is almost assured, leaving us to look 

 with confidence upon these wild park cattle as the native stock 

 out of which European and especially English breeds have been 

 developed. As American breeds are almost exclusively derived 



Fig. 43. Hood Farm Pogis 9 of 55552. A champion himself out of a 



champion sire and dam, and sire of a champion. Head of Hood Farm 



herd of Jerseys. Courtesy of C. I. Hood & Co. 



from central and northern Europe, their lineage is fairly well 

 established as running back to the aurochs, or B. primigemis, 

 through the " park catde " ^ of to-day. 



An interesting confirmation of this assumption occurs fre- 

 quently, especially among Devon cattle, which are known to have 

 developed from the early native cattle of southern England. 



1 See " Wild White Cattle of Great Britain," by Storer, for a most fascinating 

 account of these interesting remains of earlier days, that would have afforded 

 richer relics had Europe possessed the inaccessible highlands of southern Asia 

 as natural and safe retreats for these wild animals of the cattle kind. 



