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as compared with the old, or Teeswatcr breed. But after the 

 dispersion of the Colling herds, and to some extent previously, 

 crosses were made with animals from them, whose blood thus 

 became infused into herds partaking more of the old Teeswater 

 character. The result was the production of a stock having a 

 greater milking tendency than the highest bred Improved ►Short- 

 horns, but with less merit as fatteners. Mr. Whitaker, of 

 Greenholme, near Otley, upwards of thirty years ago, obtained 

 prominence for cows giving large quantities of milk, and 

 importations were made from this herd to this country ; but 

 of late the public taste in Short-horns in England, as well as in 

 the greater portion of this country, has turned decidedly in 

 favor of animals in which the beef-making property is the 

 leading and almost absorbing characteristic. Few breeders 

 of the present fashionable Short-horns would regard a pedigree 

 which ran back to Mr. Whitaker's great milkers, as conferring 

 value. 



It may be recollected that the purchaser of the highest 

 priced animals, with the exception of Comet, at Charles Col- 

 ling's sale in 1810, was Major Rudd. He bought Lily at 410 

 guineas, Countess at 400, Peeress at 170, and the bull Petrarch 

 at 365 guineas. Fourteen years after he became possessed of 

 this stock, in a letter to John' Hare Powell, Esq., of Phila- 

 delphia, he expressed his satisfaction with it for fattening pur- 

 poses, but added, that if milk is wanted, it would be advisable 

 to resort to the " old stock."* 



Some of the bulls mentioned in your letter were bred in part 

 from the- Colling stock. This was the case of Young Denton, 

 said to have been a grandson of Comet on both sides. Admiral 

 ran still more into that strain. Coelebs was said to have been 

 begotten by a son of Comet. Holderness, or Fortunatus, as he 

 was originally called, appears from papers in my possession 

 received from his importer, the late Gorham Parsons, Esq., 

 to have been bred at North Allerton, Yorkshire, and was con- 

 sidered of the best family of the Teeswater variety. Perhaps 

 no other bull of the Short-horn breed has ever been introduced 

 into the country, whose progeny from so-called Native cows, 



* This letter was printed in the Transactions of the Philadelphia Agricul- 

 tural Society for (I think) the year 1824, but I have not a copy at hand. 



