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VOLUME XXIX.-No.12. JSl'EljW YORK, DECEMBER, 1870. NEW SERIES-No. 287. 
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HEAD OF PETTYPE T.-From Life BY EDWIN Forbes. — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Pettypet represents, in very high perfection, 
the very best points of the Channel Island cat¬ 
tle, produced by mingling of the Guernsey and 
high-bred Jersey blood. She was raised by Mr. 
‘ James P. Swain, and is regarded by him as one 
of the best animals he ever bred. On the side 
of the dam site is nearly pure Guernsey, her 
dam, Pet, being out of Katie 2d, by a Guernsey 
bull, of the N. Biddle stock. Katie 2d’s dam 
was Katie, and her sire Echo, imported from 
Guernsey by Thadeus Davids. Katie was out 
of Mr. Swain’s old imported cow Guernsey, the 
mother of a line of the greatest milkers and 
butter makers we ever knew, by a bull called 
Colt Alderney, whose dam was the Alderney 
cow Curl-horn, imported by Mr. Swain, and his 
sire a bull bought of Roswell Colt, which came 
from the Island of Guernsey. So much for the 
Guernsey blood with one-thirty-second of Al¬ 
derney, whatever that may be. The sire of 
Pettypet was Bashan, imported by R. W. 
Cameron, a nearly perfect type of the high-bred 
Jersey. This animal lias impressed his charac¬ 
teristics upon bis stock to the third and fourth 
generation with almost unerring certainty, and 
to-day we think a dash of Bashan blood worth 
more in a fancy animal than a cross of any 
other choice strain. His points were great 
style, beauty of form and carriage, superb head 
and horns, which were delicate, well set up, 
pointing forward, and black tipped, fine under¬ 
pinning, (bony, but strong,) a deep carcass, well 
ribbed back, a very fine tail, with black switch, 
black mouth and tongue, very soft hide, with 
two distinct kinds of hair in his coat, changing 
his color more or less with the season, but being 
on the whole of a rather dark fawn, with hairs 
coming through tipped with gray, with very 
strong mealy ring about the muzzle. {See p. 446.) 
