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lines to Favorite. This bull was crossed on 

 Red Rose by Harbinger, which boasted no less 

 than 1,344 lines of that highly-prized blood, so 

 that the joint legacy to their offspring was 

 2,399 crosses from Favorite, and consequently 

 they were more than 5,000 times descended 

 from Hubback (4,798 through Favorite, the 

 others through a variety of lines). But as these 

 lines had been gathered up in a large number of 

 generations and greatly intermixed, Mr. Carr 

 ("History of Booth Short-horns") is justified in 

 saying that "it will not do," in calculating the 

 amount of in-and-in breeding practiced in this 

 family, "to claim bulls as of kindred blood on 

 this ground only." 



It would be easy to quote a number of in- 

 stances showing a tremendous number of lines 

 centering in those early bulls. But from the 

 beginning there were a very large number of 

 breeders of the various sorts the Holderness, 

 the Teeswater, and other varieties of Short- 

 horns and the tendency, except with a few 

 breeders, was to use the get of the celebrated 

 bulls on great numbers of widely-drawn strains. 

 The ever-widening circle, the early movement 

 to exportation to foreign lands, effectually 

 prevented the kind of concentration of blood 

 secured in the improved Longhorn. I shall 

 consider in a subsequent chapter the special 

 cases of some of the more celebrated breeders 



