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gave a permanent uniformity to the characters of his ani- 

 mals, and formed, after a time, a distinct and well-defined 

 breed. Further, the effect of continually breeding from ani- 

 mals near of blood, is attended with the effect of giving a 

 delicacy of temperament and form to the progeny. It dimi- 

 nishes the size of the bones, and produces, as it were, a ten- 

 dency to arrive at premature age. The animals, getting 

 soon old, arrive quickly at maturity of bone and muscle, 

 which is the very end aimed at by the breeder. Bakewell 

 probably adopted the system from the mere desire of pre- 

 serving the properties of form which his stock had acquired ; 

 but he would learn by experience, in the sequel, that the 

 effect was likewise to produce a more complete development 

 of those properties. 



The success of Bakewell called other breeders into the 

 field. Of these the earliest and most distinguished was Mr 

 Robert Fowler of Little Rollright, in the county of Oxford. 

 Mr Fowler purchased several heifers from Mr Webster of 

 Canley, and hired the bull Twopenny from Mr Bakewell, 

 from which stock he bred several fine cows. He continued 

 to hire bulls from Mr Bakewell, and, in particular, one in 

 the year 1778 or 1779, called D, which, by one of his first 

 cows of the Canley stock, produced a bull termed Shakspeare, 

 the most celebrated in the annals of the improved breed, and 

 continually referred to in the pedigree of the stock. Mr 

 Fowler became the breeder of numerous other fine bulls. 

 His splendid stock was sold in the year 1791, at high prices.* 



* Garrick, a bull, 5 years old, by Shakspeare, of Bro- \ 



ken-horn Beauty, which came of Long-horn Beauty, I L.215 



brought J 



Sultan, 2 years old, by Broken-horn Beauty, . . . 220 10 



Washington, by Shakspeare, out of Washington's mother, 215 5 



Young Sultan, one year old, by Garrick, . . . 210 



Brindled Beauty, a cow, by Shakspeare, of Long-horn } ^.^ ~ ~ 



Beauty, I 



Cow, by Shakspeare, of Broken -horn Beauty, . . . 120 15 



Cow, by a son of old D, brother to Shakspeare, . . 194 5 &c. 



