148 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



The Earl was more or less of a speculator in 

 cattle, but was credited with having done much 

 toward making Short-horns <k fashionable " 

 among the great landed proprietors. He is 

 said to have been the first to command an ex- 

 tensive bull trade, and has been called a "cow 

 jobber." His herd was of mixed origin and 

 composition, and it is said was crossed in-and- 

 in, in imitation of the Collings, until constitu- 

 tion was sacrificed. This fault seems to have 

 been corrected, however, for at the time of 

 Earl Spencer's death in the " forties" the herd 

 numbered about 150 head, and his legatee, a 

 Mr. Hall, soon afterward disposed of them at 

 public sale at high prices, one bull bringing 400 

 guineas, another 370 guineas, and some of the 

 cows 200 guineas each. 



Jonas Whitaker. Near the great manufac- 

 turing city of Leeds, in Southwestern York- 

 shire, Mr. Jonas Whitaker, a Quaker cotton- 

 spinner, built up at Otley one of the largest 

 and best herds of its time; a herd in which 

 some of the greatest of the old-time bulls were 

 used, and from which our early importers 

 drew some of their most valuable material. 

 Whitaker had more cattle recorded in the first 

 three volumes of cows in Coates' Herd Book 

 than any breeder in England, Earl Spencer not 

 excepted. In fact it was due to his personal 

 efforts that Coates was enabled to issue the 



