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mals of great vigor stand the strain. They are 

 in most cases animals of a natural and inherited 

 tendency to high flesh; animals which take on 

 a show-yard form with great ease and rapidity, 

 and without the great strain that most animals 

 have to be subjected to. They can be kept in 

 ordinary flesh till within a few weeks of the 

 exhibition season and then put in a sufficiently 

 good state. By taking them out of the breed- 

 ing establishment for the time, and letting 

 them have a further rest from service after the 

 season's fairs are over, they will show in many 

 cases few or no evil effects. It is rare that 

 such animals are found. It is because there 

 are some such that the standard in the fair-ring 

 is based on what is obesity for most animals. 

 And so long as these things are so the few will 

 set the example and the rest will simulate a 

 virtue which they do not possess. I have shown 

 with great success, and without any real injury, 

 several of my best breeding bulls from calfhood 

 or yearlings to maturity. Among these were 

 such celebrated bulls as Muscatoon, Chilton, 

 London Duke, and Baron Butterfly. But no 

 one of these bulls was ever overdone. They 

 took on flesh w r ith great ease and rapidity, and 

 were always in sufficiently high flesh to content 

 those who could not see excellence apart from 

 high flesh, and their native excellence was hard 

 to be passed over. But it is hard to win with 



