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ing stock. His calves were fine examples of 

 the transmission of what are called "second- 

 ary sexual qualities" that is, qualities by their 

 very nature peculiar to one sex and a concom- 

 itant of that sex by an animal of the opposite 

 sex. Comet Halley, the sire of Young Comet 

 Halley, was deeply bred in milking strains, 

 being by Frederick (1060), Mr. Whitaker's cele- 

 brated sire of milkers, and from the famous 

 Nonsuch, or Golden Pippin, tribe of Mr. Col- 

 ling, while on his dam's side he was sprung 

 from the admirable milking strain of the Illus- 

 triouses. His breeding thus gives us an insight 

 into the factors which go to build up the force 

 of which prepotency is the manifestation. But 

 to pass on, we find in Renick another animal 

 excellent indeed, but by no means extraordi- 

 nary himself, breeding with the utmost cer- 

 tainty and regularity cattle of really phenom- 

 enal character. I could readily name a long 

 list of prize-winners sprung from his loins, such 

 as Mary Magdalene, an unrivaled cow, massive 

 and deep fleshed, whose ankle bones even when 

 she weighed 2,225 Ibs. could be spanned by an 

 ordinary man's hand, and who bore her rather 

 gaudy red-and-white coloring with the dignity 

 of a perfect form; but it would in this place be 

 a mere unspeaking catalogue. One instance I 

 shall quote as a single example of his impress- 

 iveness as a sire. 



