beef cattle, the "Durham ox" and "the 

 white heifer that traveled." The former, 

 from a grade cow, was bred in 1796, and 

 was among the first calves got by Favor- 

 ite. He was steered when a calf and was 

 fed most skillfully by Colling. When 

 nearly 5 years old he weighed 3024 

 pounds, and was sold for exhibition pur- 

 poses. He was exhibited in a traveling 

 carriage, and with such success that 

 various offers for him were refused, up to 

 $10,000. He toured England and Scotland 

 for nearly six years, when, because of 

 an, accident which dislocated his hip, he 

 was killed. He dressed 2620 pounds. At 

 10 years old he weighed 3400 pounds. 



In 1806 Robert Colling had a pure-bred 

 Shorthorn heifer dropped, that was sired 

 by Favorite, and was white in color. She 

 was a twin with a bull calf, and did not 

 breed, but became very large and fat. 

 She was exhibited at many fairs, and 

 became known as "the white heifer that 

 traveled." It is said that she weighed 

 about 2300 pounds alive, and it is esti- 

 mated that in the dressed carcass she 

 weighed about 1800 pounds. 



Charles Colling desirec to concentrate 

 good blood in his herd, as much as pos- 

 sible, so he began in-and-in breeding, 

 with a limited number of animals, with 

 Favorite as the central figure. 



Two things conspired to make Favorite 

 a famous bull. First, because he was 

 the main factor in Ceiling's most un- 

 usual process of in-and-in breeding, and, 

 second, because his sons and daughters 

 and descendants became among the most 

 famous animals of their generation. 



Charles Colling was a most discrimi- 

 nating judge of cattle. He sought to 

 secure beauty, quality and early matur- 

 ity, with light waste at slaughter. Re- 

 ferring to the method of breeding fol- 

 lowed by Colling, the Rev. J. Storer 

 makes interesting discussion of it in 

 "Carr's History of the Booth Short- 

 horns." He says: "Mr. C. Colling's bull 

 Bolingbroke, and his cow Phoenix, were 

 brother and sister on the sire's side and 

 nearly so on the dams'. They were of 

 the same family, and the only difference 

 in descent was that Bolingbroke was a 

 grandson of Dalton Duke, while Phoenix 

 was not. But this apparent difference, 

 slight as it is, was not all real, for 

 Dalton Duke also contained some portion 

 of their common blood. Arithmetically 

 stated, the blood of the two being taken 



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