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for cattle. Females of the Dutchess strain 

 sold from $10,000 up to $40,000. This very 

 cow that sold for $40,000 never had a calf. 

 Today the family is extinct. The champion 

 high hred $10,000 White Leghorn hen, 

 "Lady Eglantine," had a record of 315 

 eggs a year. Though the eggs were all set, 

 they only produced to her matings 12 chicks 

 that lived to maturity — 9 cocks and 3 hens. 

 The champion Plymouth Eock, "Lady 

 Cornell," who had a record of 285 eggs, 

 never, so far as I know, raised a chicken 

 that lived to maturity, although she was 

 repeatedly well mated. The late Eobert 

 Bonner's champion, "Maud S.", was 

 splendidly bred, and mated to about all of 

 his stallions, but never had a colt. 



To illustrate the value of the well-bred 

 sire and to show how much more prolific 

 the common bred female is over the high- 

 bred, I visited today a large hog-farm, from 

 which the best of Kentucky hams come. 

 Here I found, running wild, several hun- 

 dred splendid, young, fine looking fat pigs 

 as you want to see, a small number of high- 

 bred boars and several hundred of the com- 



