PREPOTENCY. 55 



acquainted with cattle matters. His reputa- 

 tion under these circumstances flourished, and 

 such calves as London Dukes 3d and 6th, Lou- 

 don Duchess 4th, Maggie Muscatoon, Jubilee 

 Muscatoon, Duchess of Sutherland 6th, and 

 many others spread it everywhere. 



Under very different circumstances Baron 

 Butterfly of the old Barmpton Rose family 

 came into the herd's chief place. But though 

 during the years that he was used cattle circles 

 were deeply depressed he won a wide reputa- 

 tion. For evenness and absolute certainty that 

 he would make his mark on his get he has 

 rarely been equaled. Certain marks he almost 

 never failed to transmit; so that it was scarcely 

 difficult to pick out of a large number of cattle 

 those sprung from him. 



This somewhat extended account of personal 

 experience seems to me valuable, as it illus- 

 trates out of a record of many years the way 

 in which this prepotency of an animal mani- 

 fests itself. Out of twenty-seven sires only five 

 or six possessed it in a marked degree. Each 

 one of those twenty-seven was chosen with the 

 utmost care and prevision, with a view to se- 

 curing not only high merit but fine breeding 

 capacity. Thirteen were successful breeding 

 bulls, but all except those named did not make 

 a strong and nearly invariable mark on their 

 get. When bred to cows of vigorous constitu- 



