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nearly the greatest breeding bull I have ever 

 known, and a great prize-winner. Another in- 

 stance of the same qualities is to be found in 

 Baron Butterfly, whose extended pedigree is 

 also given. It will be noticed that in the 128 

 parts that may be seen from this diagram 38 

 are Duchess, 25 Oxford, 16 Booth, 5 Bates 

 Red Eose, 1 Wild Eyes, 1 Belvedere, 9 Whita- 

 ker, 5 Princess, 4 Mason, 4 Barmpton Eose (the 

 family from which he takes his family name), 

 2 Knightley, and the remaining 18 parts " scat- 

 tering" among about as many families. This 

 is surely pretty miscellaneous, as will be more 

 fully realized by a glance at the extended ped- 

 igree. The same can be said of all the bulls 

 spoken of in the chapter on prepotency as hav- 

 ing exercised so great an influence in moulding 

 my father's and .my herd on account of their 

 prepotency. Oliver, Goldfinder, Eenick, Young 

 Comet Halley, Cossack, as well as Muscatoon 

 and Baron Butterfly, were full of variety in the 

 families represented in them. 



Among the bulls that have won very wide 

 reputation of late years few have attracted so 

 much attention as Mr. Cruickshank's celebrated 

 sire Champion of England and Mr. Linton's Sir 

 Arthur Ingram and Lord Irwin, and the mis- 

 cellaneous character of their pedigrees is of the 

 most obvious kind. 



Even such breeders as had the most complete 



