142 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



to the practical farmer, and the seeker for safe 

 and plain methods, the system of natural breed- 

 ing will continue in the future to hold the first 

 place as it has in the past, supported as it is by 

 the judgment of nearly all intelligent writers 

 and all successful breeders, except a few whose 

 life and self-interests were committed for spe- 

 cial reasons to the other course. We will see 

 in the next chapter wliat some of the great 

 breeders have learned in regard to in-and-in 

 and natural breeding. 



