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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Selection. 
Just here selection may oome in. Some of the cows and their progeny 
will have proved superior beef makers or milkers, according as they were 
originally chosen. Their progeny should bo carefully raised and bred. 
It may seem dreadful, this incestuous breeding, but please remember, it 
is animals that are the subjects. The records of the improvement of ani- 
mals and their erection into fixed breeds, will show very much closer 
in-and-in breeding than this. The object is not only to throw the good 
qualities in a lump, but to fix them by concentration. Thus a cow bred 
during her whole breeding life to one bull, never having had contact with 
another, will bring her calves nearer and nearer to the sire year by year, 
through the infusion of the blood of the sire into the dam, through inter- 
circulation by means of the feetus, during its growth. 
As showing close in-and-in we find in the first volume of the American 
Herd Book a diagram of the breeding of Comet from Iiubback, and Lady 
Maynard. It is explained as follows : 
1. Bull, Hubback. 
2. Dam of Haughton. 
3. Richard Barker’s Bull. 
4. Cow, Haughton. 
5. Bull, Foljambe. 
6. Cow, Young Strawberry. 
7. Bull, Dalton Duke. 
8. Cow, Dady Maynard. 
9. Bull, Bolingbroko. 
10. Cow, Lady Maynard. 
11. Cow, Phcenix. 
12. Cow, Young Phoenix. 
13. Bull, Favorite. 
14. Bull, Comet. 
In relation to Favorite or Lady Maynard, Mr. A. B. Allen says : It was 
conceded by a company of old breeders in 1812, in discussing the question 
of the improvement of Short Horns, that no stock of Mr. Colling’s ever 
equalled Lady “Maynard” the dam of Phoenix, andgranddam of Favorite 
(by Foljambe) and of young Phcenix (by Favorite, her son, upon his own 
mother,) the dam of Comet 155) so celebrated as having been sold for 
1000 guineas $5000) also by Favorite, a specimen of as close-in-and-in- 
breeding as can perhaps be found on record. 
To show wonderful depth of in-breeding with continued good results, 
the cow Clarissa may be mentioned ; she possessed sixty-three sixty-fourth3 
of the blood of Favorite. Her pedigree runs thus : “Cow Clarissa, roan, 
oalved in 1814. Bred by Mr. R. Colling, got by Wellington (680) out 
of by Favorite, (852) — by Favorite, — by Favorite, — by Favorite — by 
Favorite — by Favorite — by a son of Hubback. 
Wellington, the eke of Clarissa, was also deeply inbred with the blood 
