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OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 201 
breeding brought about $1,000 each, while two years later the 
sum of $2,000 was paid for one animal. His achievements so 
excited the surrounding breeders that they came to the ear of 
the King, and Georce Tuirp honored this pioneer with a royal 
inquiry concerning his “new discovery in stock breeding.” 
RosBERT BAKEWELL was clearly of a scientific mood and a 
research temperament. At Dishley Hall he maintained a museum 
wherein he preserved both skeletons and pickled joints illustrat- 
ing the results he had attained. Most of the exhibits were from 
the Leicesters, but one joint at least was a relic of the notable 
Old Comely that died at twenty-six years of age with a full 
four inch fat covering above his sirloin. As far as is known, 
BAKEWELL never enunciated his principles of breeding, but as 
crystallized from his experience one finds the following five 
axioms which have guided breeders of livestock for over a 
century: 
Like begets like. 
Variation exists in all stocks. 
Select an ideal type. 
Breed the best to the best. 
Inbreeding produces fixity of type, refinement and early 
maturity. 
