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breeding that the whole Bakewell theory was 

 put into operation. Favorite was inbred. His 

 sire, Bolingbroke (86), and his dam, Phoenix, 

 were half brother and sister on the sire's side, 

 but more than this, both were descended from 

 (the one being a daughter, the other a grand- 

 son) Lady Maynard, Mr. Colling's celebrated 

 cow purchased of Mr. Maynard, who at the 

 time of her sale called her Favorite, a name 

 destined to become the special property of her 

 famous grandson. The result of this was that 

 Favorite had, like his sire and dam, one-half of 

 the blood of Foljambe, and, also, he had three- 

 eighths of the blood of Lady Maynard ; that is 

 to say, that seven-eighths of his blood were 

 derived from these two sources. Of the blood 

 of the great old bull Hubback he had only 

 one-eighth, though twice descended from him 

 through Foljambe in both instances. This was 

 close inbreeding, but an analysis of Favorite's 

 pedigree shows that the blood lines were very 

 miscellaneous, and that no concentration of 

 the blood lines of any particular animals had 

 as yet been attempted. It is true that this bull 

 is twice descended from the two most distin- 

 guished animals among his predecessors Hub- 

 back and Lady Maynard but Hubback in each 

 case appears in the fourth generation, and the 

 cross which produced Favorite was the signal, 

 as it were, for the drawing together of the 

 blood lines of the Maynard cow, 



