180 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



As year after year passed, and animal after 

 animal was purchased on account of excellence 

 in this or that direction, because of show-yard 

 triumphs, and other like grounds of sound rea- 

 son, many and various strains very naturally 

 found their way into the herd. It was a kind 

 of natural selection on a high standard which 

 drew from far and wide. Among these pur- 

 chases we find animals descended from the good 

 old-fashioned sorts of Maynard, Colling, Mason, 

 and Wetherell; newer sorts from the herds 

 of Booth and Bates; and every variety of 

 blood in one bull and another, at the founda- 

 tion or brought in by top crosses. A notable 

 strain, among others, of Col. Towneley's was 

 the Barmpton Rose (certainly one of the best 

 of the good old families), introduced chiefly in 

 Master Butterfly 2d, a $2,000 bull "of great in- 

 dividual merit," while others came from such 

 herds as those of Messrs. Torr, Stuart, William 

 Smith, Linton, Capt. Barclay, Sir William Ster- 

 ling Maxwell, and Earl Ducie. Wherever they 

 could be found to come up to the one clearly 

 fixed and high standard they were purchased, 

 if possible, and mere theories counted for 

 nothing. 



This process went on for about thirty years. 

 After so long a time the herd had grown large, 

 even very large, and by the constant introduc- 

 tion of new strains, through the purchase of 



