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hues will show about ninety per cent of bay foals. 

 It is not uncommon to see grade Holsteins so per- 

 fectly marked as to be undistinguishable from the 

 pure breed. Even though the native jack be black, he 

 may not transmit that color — they are quite as apt to 

 transmit the color of their ancestry, though it be for 

 generations back. 



The Catalonian is a jack of great style and beauty 

 and of superb action, and many are being used in our 

 best jennet herds. I think they are chiefly responsible 

 for the black cross in our native stock. A great num- 

 ber of them are being imported, and I think they will 

 continue the history of their successful past. They 

 derive their name from the section of country in 

 which they are found, this being the northern part of 

 Spain, embracing all the departments known as Cata- 

 lonia. It covers some hundreds of miles in area, ex- 

 tending from the Mediterranean coast to the French 

 side of the Pyrenees, taking in what is known as the 

 Cerdan, which lies both in France and Spain. Al- 

 though they are found in both countries, they are still 

 found only in the mountains of the Pyrenees. They 

 are scattered all over the south of France, bordering 

 the mountains about Toulouse, Tarbes, Pau and else- 

 where. These were, nevertheless, born in their moun- 

 tain fastnesses of the Pyrenees, and were imported as 

 colts to take their places in the stud when they be- 

 came sufficiently old. Many of our best Catalonian 

 jacks that have been imported from France were thus 

 introduced. 



The supply of good jacks in this territory — the 

 Pyrenees — is limited and almost exhausted by the 

 large and increasing importations to America. When 



