CATTLE, HOW TO BREED. 
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Gtart the Herd 
With one yearling bull for each ten two-year-old heifer9, selected as 
wc have stated, and which have not been bred. Keep them from contact 
with other cattle, and especially keep their own bull as much in their 
sight as possible. The n^xt year’s produce should be ten calves, one-, 
half of which should be ueifers. Geld the steers, and make what use 
may be desired of them, Bear the heifer calves in the best manner pos- 
sible, and with their sire and dams when in the pasture, and at othei 
times do not allow them to see strangely marked animals, especially 
when in heat. 
- At the age of two years breed them to their sire. He will now be 
four years old, and should bo kept simply in good flesh, not really fat, 
certainly not lean ; but strong, vigorous and healthy. When these calves 
are two years old, breed again to the same sire, and so on to the fourth 
generation, if he last so long with vigor. 
Thus this produce will inherit 15-10 of the blood of the sire, being the 
fourth generation from the original sire and dam. It may be formulated 
thus: at one year from starting the herd, you have the first generation; 
at' four years the second ; at seven years the third ; and at ten years the 
fourth generation. They will grade as follows : First, one-half bloods * 
second, three-quarter bloods ; third, seven-eighths' bred ; and fourth, 
fifteen-sixteenth bred. 
Besides these you will also have generations successively from the orig- 
inal cows, or seven-eighths, three-fourths and onc-half bred heifers 
corresponding with the succeeding years from the first. If these a<rain 
have been bred to the same bull, or another pure bred bull, their produce 
will. be respectively fifteenth-sixteenths and seven-eighths bred. 
Ten Years’ Produce. 
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‘•■■Letus now figure how much stock, young and old, Will be the produce 
of this system, allowing that none have died. In one year, from the ten 
cows and one bull, wc have ten calves, five heifers and five steers ; the 
second- year, ten calves, the third year ten calves, the fourth year ten 
ciilWs. This year we have also five calves, the produce of the first year’s 
chlve9‘. The sixth year we will have twenty-five calves, the seventh year 
thirty, the eighth year thirty-five, the ninth year forty, and the tenth year ’ 
forty-fivo calves as the produce of the original cows and their progeny* 
making in all two hundred and forty animals ranging in age from 
calves to thirteen years old, of which one hundred and twenty-five should 
be females. 
