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good one, Colling called her "Lady," and raised her. When 

 matured, he put this heifer " Lady " successively to his best 

 bulls, and reared several calves from her. Her first calf was a 

 bull, which he called "Washington," and Colling bred him to 

 two or three of his cows, but nothing came from him of any 

 particular value. He also bred her daughters to his good bulls, 

 but never bred one of the bull calves, of either Lady or her 

 heifer descendants, except the bull Washington, to any thorough 

 bred cows in his herd ; nor is it known that he ever sold one of 

 them, as a thorough bred. He kept this " Lady " family separate, 

 and by way of distinction from his thorough-breds, called them 

 the "Alloy." They were good feeders, had good carcasses, 

 and made a good appearance, but they were no milkers. At 

 Ceiling's great sale of his short-horns, in the year 1810, when 

 he quit breeding, this "Lady" family were catalogued with his 

 others, and sold, with their full pedigrees distinctly given, so 

 there need be no deception as to their breeding. Of this "family >J 

 there were quite a number, and being in fine condition, and cattle 

 of all kinds in demand, they brought good prices, but not near 

 so much, individually, as the cattle of some of his other families. 

 These "alloy" were bought by the young, or new short-horn 

 breeders, and not by the older veteran breeders who attended 

 the sale. Thus "Lady" had one-eighth Galloway blood, her 

 daughters on-e-sixteenth, their descendants less, and so on. 



Now, Berry works up the story, and the prices the 'alloy' 

 sold for, in his own way, leaving the impression that they were 

 the favorite cattle at the sale, and stamps this Galloway cross as 

 the root, foundation, and origin of the "improved" short-horns! 



In giving an account of Colling's sale, and the prices the cattle 

 brought, we let Berry tell his own story: "It will probably be 

 admitted that the prejudice against the cross (alluding to the 

 "alloy") was at the highest at the time of Mr. Charles Col- 

 ling's sale. The blood had then been little, if at all, introduced 



