and divided into thirty-two parts, 

 twenty-nine of those parts were of 

 blood common to both, rather differently 

 proportioned between them. Phoenix 

 had sixteen of those parts, Bolingbroke 

 thirteen, the latter having also three 

 fresh parts derived from Dalton Duke, 

 which made up the thirty-two. Being 

 thus very nearly own brother and sis- 

 ter, they were the joint parents of the 

 bull Favorite. That bull was next put 

 to his own mother, Phoenix, so nearly 

 related to him on his sire's side also, 

 and the produce was Young Phoenix. 

 To this heifer Favorite was once more 

 put, she being at once his daughter and 

 more than his own sister, too; for their 

 two sires, Bolingbroke and Favorite, 

 were not only as nearly as possible con- 

 sanguineous with each other, but also 

 with the cow Phoenix, to which they 

 were both put. The result was Comet 

 (155.) Nor was this all. The system was 

 carried much further. The celebrated 

 Booth bull Albion (14) was not only a 

 son of the in-and-in Favorite-bred 

 Comet, but his dam was a granddaugh- 

 ter of Favorite on both sides, and de- 

 scended besides from both the sire and 

 dam of Favorite." 



Favorite was used very extensively on 

 his own offspring, and sired numerous 

 famous animals, among which may be 

 mentioned the Durham ox, the White 

 heifer, Comet (155), Daisy bull (186), 

 Young Phoenix, Laura, Johanna, Cherry, 

 Red Rose, Moss Rose, Juno, Marske 

 (418), North Star (459), Styford (629) and 

 Ketton 1st (709). 



At the dispersal sale of the Charles 

 Colling herd in 1810 there were sold 

 forty-seven cattle, three-fourths of 

 which were got by Favorite or Comet 

 (155), his son, and the balance of the 

 herd by bulls of their get. Colling dur- 

 ing his later career found it necessary 

 to introduce new and foreign blood into 

 his herd, to renew the constitutional 

 vigor, and so the famous "alloy" or 

 Galloway blood was used. Yet the sale 

 was a great success, in spite of the 

 prejudice which existed against the in- 

 tense in-and-in breeding practiced by 

 Colling. The forty-seven head sold 

 brought an average of about $750 each, 

 while Comet, Favorite's son, made the 

 record high price up to that time of 

 $5,000. 



In Lewis F. Allen's "Pedigrees >of Eng- 

 lish Shorthorn Bulls to Which American 



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