46 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



ers, which became in future hands, as well 

 as his own, widely noted as the basis of supe- 

 rior herds. He also bred many noted bulls. 

 Among the earliest of them were Broken-horn 

 (95), by Hubback (319); Punch (513), by 

 Broken-horn; Ben (70), and Twin Brother to 

 Ben (660), by Punch; Colling's (Robert) White 

 Bull (151), by Favorite (252); Marske (418), by 

 Favorite [his dam and grandam also by Favor- 

 ite; great-grandam by Hubback (319) that 

 became a very noted bull, useful thirteen 

 years, and died at fifteen years old]; North 

 Star (459), by Favorite [and full brother to 

 the "White Heifer That Traveled"]; Phenom- 

 enon (491), by Favorite, and Styford (629) by 

 Favorite. 



"The American Cow." Among the cows 

 bred by Robert Colling was one which has ob- 

 tained celebrity, through her descendants, as 

 "The American Cow"; and it was a subject 

 of inquiry for many years, both in England 

 and America, why a cow so ancient in line- 

 age should have been called by a name so for- 

 eign to her birthplace, and after a country 

 where the Short-horns at that time were almost 

 unknown. We first find her name in the pedi- 

 gree of Red Rose, in first edition of Vol. I, p. 

 457, E. H. B., as follows: "Red, calved in 1811, 

 bred by Mr. Hustler, property of Mr. T. Bates; 

 got by Yarborough (705), dam (bred by R. Col- 



