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ihould familiarize her to the sight of the best of her kind. If an. 

 nferior male, a steer, or ox, for instance, be running in the same 

 ield, or an adjoining one, where she can see him (and such 

 iteer, or ox, will always strive to appease her passion, if they can 

 ;et together, to which attempt she readily submits,) he may so 

 ifFect her imagination thus operated upon, as to impress to some 

 ixtent the foetus which may soon be conceived under the action 

 if a proper bull. Therefore she should be prevented any such 

 iimiharity with inferior brutes. This, to the common observer, 

 nay appear absurd ; but we will give an instance : Some years 

 igo, in the winter season, we had a thorough bred short-horn 

 low, which the herdsman had just let out of the stable with 

 (ther cows to water. She was immediately discovered to be in 

 leat. As she was passing through the yard, a villainous black 

 crub of a bull from a neighboring farm, had strayed away, and 

 iroke into our premises, and at that moment had come into the 

 '•ard. He encountered the cow, and before the herdsman could 

 each them, a hurried coition had taken place. The cow was 

 mniediately separated from him, put into a small enclosure, and 

 , thorough bred bull of her own breed admitted to her, with the 

 isual and repeated effect. But it proved of no avail. In due 

 ime, the cow produced a black-roan bull calf, "steel mixed." 

 le turned out a good one, taking more the form of the cow than 

 if his sire, and we made a steer of him. The winter in which he 

 lecarae a yearling, when running in the yard with some other 

 alves, the door of the stable, in which several thorough bred 

 hort-horn cows were standing, tied in their stalls, was open. 

 !'hat calf, in a frohc, ran bounding into the stable. One of the 

 ows but a few days previous having received the bull, (a 

 horough bred short-horn,) started in alarm, threw her head on one 

 ide, saw the calf running by, and gave a loud, sudden bawl. 

 t was only an emotion of fright, and in a moment she was over 

 b. At the proper time she calved, and that calf, a pure roan 



