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size, color, and disposition, which is very wild. Their identity 
with the ancient aurochs is almost assured, leaving us to look 
with confidence upon these wild park cattle as the native stock 
out of which European and especially English breeds have been 
developed. As American breeds are almost exclusively English, 
Fic. 43. Hood Farm Pogis 9 of 55552. A champion himself out of a 
champion sire and dam, and sire of a champion. Head of Hood Farm 
herd of Jerseys. Courtesy of C. I. Hood & Co. 
excepting only the Brown Swiss, their lineage is fairly well 
established as running back to the aurochs, or 2B. primigenus, 
through the “ park cattle” + of to-day. 
An interesting confirmation of this assumption occurs fre- 
quently, especially among Devon cattle, which are known to have 
developed from the early native cattle of southern England. 
1 See Wild White Cattle of Great Britain,” by Storer, for a most fascinating 
account of these interesting remains of earlier days, that would have afforded 
richer relics had Europe possessed the inaccessible highlands of southern Asia 
as natural and safe retreats for these wild animals of the cattle kind. 
