22 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



had intended that a description of the most 

 noted animals should appear in the public reg- 

 istry. Although this plan was not adopted in 

 the final revision of the book his notes on many 

 of the earlier sires have nevertheless been pre- 

 served. From these it appears that " J. Brown's 

 old red bull" had "good fore quarters and 

 handle,* huggins and rumps not good, strong 

 thighs, excellent getter." The progeny of this 

 bull was apparently held in great esteem, and 

 some of his daughters subsequently attained 

 much reputation, one becoming the ancestress 

 of the afterwards celebrated Bates Duchess 

 tribe, and another was the ancestral dam of 

 Eobert Colling's old Red Rose sort. 



The most famous of all the foundation bulls, 

 however, was Hubback (319), his influence hav- 

 ing been so great as to require special comment 

 in these pages further on. Many bulls are re- 

 corded in the first volume of the English Herd 

 Book that lived anterior to the year 1780, but 

 aside from their names and that of a sire, and 

 sometimes a grandsire, little or nothing seems 

 to have been recorded of their ancestry, and 

 nothing beyond can now be known of them. 

 Among these, in addition to those already 

 named, are Ralph Alcock's Bull (19), Allison's 

 Gray Bull (26), J. Brown's White Bull (98), Hol- 

 lon's Bull (313), Jolly's Bull (337), Kitt (357), 



* This refers evidently to his " touch," as the handling- qualities of breed- 

 ins stock were carefully regarded by the original improvers of the breed. 



