56 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



tion the offspring was as likely to show a 

 clearly mingled likeness or a decided likeness 

 to the dam as to the sire. The few had so 

 great power of procreation in the line of the 

 general rule that "like begets like" that it was 

 wonderful that a calf did not resemble rather 

 than that it did resemble them. 



It is easy to trace the lines of prepotency in 

 many well-known and thoroughly authenticated 

 cases. One of the most notable is to be found 

 in the singular resemblance preserved for many 

 generations in the house of Hapsburg, for so 

 long the reigning house in Austria. This re- 

 semblance, preserved in spite of foreign and 

 often totally unrelated marriages, has excited 

 the comment of the most unobservant. A 

 number of similar cases have been remarked in 

 the noble families of Rome, and it is not possi- 

 ble for any one with any faculty for observing 

 likenesses to view the long lines of portrait 

 busts which throng the galleries of Rome with- 

 out receiving a lively impression of the strong 

 resemblances, often persisting for many gener- 

 ations, in the" families whose successive genera- 

 tions are there preserved to us in their portraits. 



Passing from man we find that in the horse 

 the influence of prepotency is not only recog- 

 nized and highly valued, but the personality of 

 it has been carefully distinguished. Thus the 

 horses Touchstone and Launcelot, though full 



