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brought as great diversity to their offspring as 

 did Muscatoon. 



We find another notable example in Fanny 

 Forester, one of the most superior animals that 

 I ever saw, and looked upon wherever she went 

 in a long and bright career as a show cow as a 

 phenomenon of bovine beauty. She was as 

 nearly perfect of her type, which was some- 

 what small, especially in contrast with some of 

 the massive specimens of the Scotch breeders' 

 handicraft now so much esteemed, as it was 

 possible for her to be, and I believe met no 

 serious rival in the show-yard of her own age 

 except London Duchess 4th. Her pedigree 

 shows most miscellaneous breeding and a to- 

 tal neglect of any idea but getting good ani- 

 nlals to breed together in the making of each 

 successive cross. 



It is of course impossible to reach any general 

 rule from so slender a basis of particulars ; nor 

 was anything farther from my intention in cit- 

 ing them. They are, however, typical instances 

 out of many that have come under my indi- 

 vidual notice, and they may serve some good 

 purpose as a counter-agent to the cases some- 

 times cited where a very fine beast has been 

 produced by a system of in-and-in breeding. 

 The narrow basis of generalizations of the 

 boldest sorts upon single instances of close in- 

 breeding is something only less surprising than 



