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Grant. You know he was a loyal man to his superior officer 

 Gen. Grant. There was a group of officers around him and he 

 was talking about Grant. He said, ''I am as well educated as 

 Grant is, I can handle a division of men as well as Grant," and 

 he spoke of other things that he could do as well as Gen. Grant, 

 but he said, "Gentlemen, there is one thing in which Gen. Grant 

 exceeds me and any other man that I ever knew, he did not care 

 a d — n what the enemy is doing that he can not see, but that is 

 what scares me like the devil." Now let us apply that to breed- 

 ing. Here are the animals that I can see and they do not scare 

 me but it is the animals behind me that I cannot see that scares 

 me. They influence the progeny by reversion. There is many 

 a breeder behind us that you and I do not want to copy. When 

 I find an animal so individually strong in his body, as this fellow 

 Mercury is, I have the testimony right in his very bones and all 

 parts of his body which tell me that I am shut off very largely 

 from those ancestors which I cannot see and fear. When you 

 go among cattle remember what I have told you. You will 

 find dairy sires with horns on them like a buffalo and a shoulder 

 like an ox. Some men may want you to buy them on the 

 strength of paper but I will first select my sires according to their 

 confirmation and then I will book up the registry of their per- 

 forming ancestry. 



Needful to Have Large Mouths and Wide Bodies. 



I have said enough for the time allotted to jne on the bony 

 system. I am now going to take up some other things that 

 appear outside of that system. In the first place you have to 

 have your cows and consequently you must have it in your sire, 

 that we all a big wide muzzle and roomy body. I ought not 

 to say anything more about that for how can it be otherwise 

 when you have a great storage capacity as provided for in the 

 first stomach. This class of annimals first swallow before eating. 

 Cows do not eat at first, they fill up, and the chewing the cud 

 is eating. They must have much storage room. When the 

 food has been chewed, then returned to the second stomach and 

 further digested, then it must be taken into the blood; this de- 

 mands a long digestive coil, a long intestine. How can you 

 enclose the great first stomach and that long digestive tract un- 

 less you have a capacious body? That is simple enough and yet 

 ill fifd ?ome of tho=;e bulls with Ions: pedigrees but with 



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