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The Influence of Dexter Cattle on other Breeds. 
that the less carefully selected animal yields readily to the better 
bred one. As showing how prepotent the Dexters are, even with 
animals on which great care has been bestowed for a long period, 
we give in fig. 4 an illustration of a Shorthorn-Dexter cross. The 
animal here shown was bred by Major Barton, of Straffan, who 
possesses an old-established herd of Shorthorns of considerable 
repute. Noticing how well the two breeds mated, he set to work 
to produce a cross-breed possessing its own fixity of type, which 
should combine the valuable properties of the two breeds. With 
Fig. 3. — Dexter Heifer J/« Queen. 
the animals thus bred he has taken several prizes, and he has on 
his place animals the result of several crosses. The one here illus- 
trated, Fairy King, is a yearling ; its great-great-great- grand- 
dam was a pure-bred Dexter, which was crossed with a Short- 
horn, and the offspring of the succeeding generations have been 
systematically mated with Shorthorn bulls. Both breeds are 
traceable in Fairy King, the Shorthorn having made considerable 
impression on the head, but the legs and hind-quarters are those 
of the Dexter, and generally there are indications throughout of 
the influence of Dexter breeding. What is more important, the 
