326 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



"THE WHITE HEIFER THAT TRAVELED" 



128. In the first years of the 19th century, ROBERT COLLING 

 (94) did much to promote the newly founded race of Short- 

 horns by sending out his finest beeves for exhibition through- 

 out the principal agricultural districts. The most noteworthy 

 of these was the free martin heifer by Favorite (252) from a 

 dam called Favorite Cow. The exact date of her birth is not 

 recorded in the Coates Herd Book but it is presumed that she 

 was dropped about 1806. Because of her handicap for breed- 

 ing she was fed out to her utmost capacity and for several years 

 was publicly exhibited. It is not known at what age she was 

 slaughtered, but her dead weight was estimated at 1,820 pounds, 

 which certainly required a live weight during her best years of 

 above 2,300 pounds. It was through the exhibition of such 

 animals as the "White Heifer that Traveled" that the COLLING 

 BROTHERS established the firm trade demand for the foundation 

 animals of the then new Shorthorn breed. 



