Essentials of Animal Breeding. 



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depends upon their ability to produce desirable types with greater 

 excellence and uniformity than animals with other pedigrees or 



The Dam of a Grand Champion. 



FIG. 17. Merry Sempstress, dam of Merry Monarch, the grand champion steer at the 

 International Live Stock Exposition in 1919. Note not only her beef conformation 

 but her good feeding qualities, clearly indicated in a head which is almost an ideal 

 feeder's type, as well as an ideal breed type. She shows excellent indications of 

 real feminine character. 



A Triumph of Breeding and Feeding. 



FIG. 18. Merry Monarch (right), grand champion steer at the 1918 International Live 

 Stock Exposition, and two other prize-winning sons of Lavender Sultan. Compare 

 with figures 16 and 17. 



with no known pedigrees whatever. The power of the animal with a 

 known pedigree to reproduce its type has been intensified by selection. 

 Therefore, if the matings which have been made in constructing the 



