30 A HISTORY OP SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



the Long-horns were not destined to general 

 popularity. The method employed in fixing 

 the type, however, was soon seized upon by 

 some of the younger element in the Short-horn 

 breeding ranks, and with wonderful effect, as 

 we will now proceed to note. 



Ketton and Barmpton. About three miles 

 northeast of Darlington, in the county of Dur- 

 ham, overlooking a little stream that flows into 

 the Tees at Croft, is the farm of Barmpton, and 

 about a mile beyond is Ketton. Upon these 

 two farms the modern Short-horn may be said 

 to have had its origin. Charles Colling Sr., 

 father of Charles and Robert, the first great 

 improvers of the breed, had laid the founda- 

 tion for a Short-horn herd at Ketton Farm by 

 the purchase of a cow called Cherry at Yarm 

 Fair, but finding farming unprofitable at this 

 time he gave up the property to his son Charles. 

 The brothers set about breeding Short-horns at 

 a time when values of farm products in Eng- 

 land were much depressed. The American 

 Revolution had just been terminated, and, in 

 common with all other farm property in great 

 Britain, cattle were still feeling the demoraliz- 

 ing effects of war. 



The original Duchess cow. Charles Colling 

 had heard of Bakewell and his work and in 

 1783 made a prolonged study, at Dishley, of 

 the theory and practice of in-and-in or "close" 



