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out of Phoenix by Bolingbroke (86), out of Young Strawberry by 

 Foljambe (263), out of Haughton by Mr. Richard Barker's Bull (52), 

 out of (by a son of Lakeland's Bull) by Hill's Red Bull, out of . 



Could the same thing viewed from different 

 points of view be more opposite? And yet 

 these are equally the pedigree of the bull Baron 

 Butterfly in an abbreviated form, and either 

 form would afford the data for an expanded or 

 full pedigree. Turn to this expanded form as 

 given in diagram on pages 138 and 139, and it 

 will make a still different impression on the 

 uninitiated observer. The brief record thus 

 given, which want of space made unavoidable, 

 might lead such an one to think that this bull, 

 instead of being a Barmpton Rose or Butterfly, 

 was more properly to be reckoned as of the 

 Rose of Sharon family. His sire, 2d Duke of 

 Grasmere 13961; his grandsire, Airdrie Renick 

 7468; his great-grandsire Airdrie 2478, and his 

 great-great-grandsire, Airdrie 2478, were all of 

 the Rose of Sharon family, and having thus an 

 ancestor in each of the four most recent gener- 

 ations of that family, it would seem that this 

 blood must preponderate. It is true that the 

 line which traced this Rose of Sharon descent 

 would be quite a zig-zag across the pedigree, 

 but it would not be any less the animal's true 

 descent. The fallacy of the conclusion does 

 not lie in the necessity of a zig-zag line to trace 

 out the Rose of Sharon ancestors, but in the 

 fact that these bulls are only Roses of Sharon 



