HUBBACK 



In some respects this is perhaps the 

 most famous animal in cattle history. 

 This is due to the fact that many have 

 regarded him as the first great breeding 

 bull of the Shorthorn class of cattle. His 

 career was unique and almost without a 

 parallel, which rather adds to his his- 

 toric interest. 



The Shorthorn breed came to its own 

 up in northeastern England, in a beau- 

 tiful grazing region, particularly in the 

 counties of Yorkshire and Durham. For 

 many years along in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury cattle of the Shorthorn type, of 

 much excellence, were bred in this part 

 of England, along the valley of the Tees, 

 from which they at first derived the 

 name "Teeswater cattle." Dutch and 

 Galloway blood were used somewhat in 

 early times on these Teeswater cattle, 

 but it is also probably true that there 

 were herds bred with fair purity for 

 many years, from which the genuine 

 Shorthorns of to-day are descended. 



The early type of Shorthorn, we are 

 told, was rather large and rangy and 

 lacked quality, and did not represent 

 the best stamp of the feeder. 



About the middle of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury a bricklayer named John Hunter 

 was a tenant farmer in the County Dur- 

 ham. About 1771 he left the farm and 

 moved to a little village near the city of 

 Darlington, named Hurworth. He had 

 sold all his cattle excepting one beauti- 

 ful Shorthorn cow, which he brought 

 with him to his new home. Owning no 

 land, he was obliged to graze her along 

 the roadsides. In 1777 she dropped a bull 

 calf, to a pure Shorthorn bull, owned by 

 George Snowdon of Hurworth. It is this 

 bull calf which afterward attained so 

 much fame. 



When yet a calf Mr. Hunter took the 

 cow and son to Darlington market and 

 sold them to a Quaker, who the same 



