42 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



The name of " Favorite Cow's" sire is not given. 

 Her grandam, "Yellow Cow," was by Punch 

 (531), and her great-grandam was by Anthony 

 Reed's Bull (538), and bred by Mr. Best of Man- 

 field. The " White Heifer" being twinned with 

 a bull, and herself not breeding, she was fed up 

 to her greatest flesh-taking capacity and exten- 

 sively exhibited. Her age when slaughtered 

 is not given, but the account states that her 

 live weight could not have been less than 

 2,300 Ibs., and her dead weight was estimated 

 at 1,820 Ibs. 



There were other extraordinary, large and 

 heavy cattle bred and fed by the Short-horn 

 breeders contemporary with the Collings, whose 

 recorded weights we might give, but as they all 

 run in about the same scale it is not important 

 to record them here. It is sufficient to say that 

 the great reputation which the Collings and 

 their animals acquired was through the wider 

 knowledge which the public abroad obtained 

 of them by these public exhibitions. Thus the 

 Collings became conspicuously known, and were 

 considered by those not intimately acquainted 

 with the other breeders around them as, if not 

 the founders, at least the great improvers of 

 the newly-advertised and meritorious breed. 



The "alloy" blood, In the year 1791, after 

 Charles Colling had been ten years a Short-horn 

 breeder and had his choicest Short-horn fami- 



