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ders rather upright, girth good, loins, belly and 

 sides fair, rump and hips extraordinary, flank 

 and twist wonderful." He was a yellow-red 

 with some white, calved in 1777. He was got 

 by Snowdon's Bull (612), he by Waistell's Bull 

 (558), he by Masterman's Bull (422), son of 

 Studley Bull (626). His dam was out of a cow 

 bred by Mr. Stephenson of Ketton "from a 

 tribe in his possession forty years." It was at 

 one time alleged that there was Kyloe (West 

 Highland) blood in Hubback's veins on his 

 dam's side, but this is not substantiated. Rob- 

 ert Colling used Hubback for a time and then 

 sold him to his brother Charles, who kept him 

 in service two seasons, after which he was sold, 

 at ten years of age, to Mr. Hubback, in whose 

 hands he remained up to his death at the age 

 of fourteen years. It appears that neither 

 Waistell nor either of the Collings truly appre- 

 ciated the merits of Hubback until after they 

 had parted with him and saw the excellence of 

 his stock as they grew up and developed. He 

 was a small bull his dam was small for a 



Good Friday, in April, 1783, bought him of Mr. Fawcett for ten guineas 

 (about $50) and took him home, where he was jointly owned and used to 

 their separate herds, Colling having seventeen and Waistell eleven cows 

 served by him during the season. In the following November (1783) Charles 

 Colling, having changed his opinion of the merits of the bull, offered his 

 owners eight guineas (about $40) for him, and they sold him. 



Charles Colling kept the bull two years, using him freely in his herd, 

 and then sold him late in 1785, at ten years old, to a Mr. Hubback, at North 

 Seton, in Northumberland. The bull had no name when Colling sold him. 

 Mr. Hubback used him (the bull then being called Hubback's Bull) until the 

 year 1791, when he was fourteen years old, and he was vigorous to the last. 



