[7] Mr. Wright, ‘Journal of Royal Agricult. Soc.,’ vol. vii., 1846, p. 204. Mr. J. Downing (a successful breeder of Shorthorns in Ireland) informs me that the raisers of the great families of Shorthorns carefully conceal their sterility and want of constitution. He adds that Mr. Bates, after he had bred his herd in-and-in for some years, “lost in one season twenty-eight calves solely from want of constitution.”
[8] Youatt on Cattle, p. 202.
[9] ‘Report British Assoc., Zoolog. Sect.,’ 1838.
[10] Azara, ‘Quadrupèdes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. pp. 354, 368.
[11] For the case of the Messrs. Brown, see ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1855, p. 26. For the Foscote flock, ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1860, p. 416. For the Naz flock, ‘Bull. de la Soc. d’Acclimat.,’ 1860, p. 477.
[12] Nathusius, ‘Rindvieh,’ s. 65; Youatt on Sheep, p. 495.
[13] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1861, p. 631.
[14] ‘Journal R. Agricult. Soc.,’ vol. xiv., 1853, p. 212.
[15] Lord Somerville, ‘Facts on Sheep and Husbandry,’ p. 6. Mr. Spooner in ‘Journal of Royal Agricult. Soc. of England,’ vol. xx. part ii. See also an excellent paper on the same subject in ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1860, p. 321, by Mr. Charles Howard.
[16] ‘Some Account of English Deer Parks,’ by Evelyn P. Shirley, 1867.