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and others left out. He retains Ceiling's name in Youatt, but 

 omits Whittaker's altogether, and introduces facts iu the course 

 of Ceiling's breeding, which he omitted in the pamphlet. 



The main point of falsity, however, (left out in the pamphlet 

 and put into Youatt,) which we propose to detect, as the source 

 of all the mischief about the improvement of the short-horns by 

 Colling, is this : While Colling was successfully breeding short- 

 horns from the best blood he had obtained of older and 

 cotemporary breeders around him, a neighbor, "Col. O'Calla- 

 ghan," bought a couple of Galloway heifers, and brought them 

 home to his farm. He arranged with Colling to put them to his 

 short-horn bull "Bolingbroke;" if the calves were heifers, he 

 (O'Callaghan) was to retain them ; if bulls, Colling was to have 

 them. One of the heifers a red one dropped a bull calf, a 

 half-bred short-horn, of course, which, by the arrangement, 

 belonged to Colling. This bull calf being a good one as a 

 mongrel Colling brought him up to a yearling. He had a 

 short-horn cow, Joanna, quite old, and not having bred a calf 

 for two years, he put her to this yearling cross-bred calf, "Son 

 of Bolingbroke." She became pregnant f and in due course, in 

 the year 1794, dropped a bull calf three-fourths short-horn and 

 one-fourth Galloway a grandson of Bolingbroke. He proved 

 a likely calf, also, and Colling kept him, as he had kept his sire, 

 until he became a yearling. He had a very fine, aged cow, 

 "Phoenix," from which had sprung some of his best stock. She 

 had produced a thorough bred short-horn calf in 1793. Although 

 afterwards put to some of Colling's thorough bred bulls, she 

 continued barren, and in the winter of 1795-6, was put into the 

 straw yard, and the young "Grandson of Bolingbroke," then a 

 yearling, turned in with her. To him, Phcenix became pregnant. 

 Colling then disposed of this "Grandson of Bolingbroke." In 

 the autumn of 1796, Phoenix produced a heifer calf, seven- 

 eighths short-horn and one eighth Galloway blood. Being a 



