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and understood, as it has since become. He took in hand 

 a breed of cattle the Longhorn whose greatest fame both 

 rose and fell with him. He was even more successful with 

 the Leicester sheep, and his rams fetched prices which 

 astonished the world. His success in cattle breeding would 

 no doubt have been as marked and brilliant as it was in 

 the domain of sheep, if only he had taken in hand the Short- 

 horns instead of the Longhorns. This, however, was a matter 

 of circumstance rather than choice ; the Longhorns were in his 

 day the prevailing bovine stock of the Midland Counties, and 



FIG. 12. LONGHORN BULL. 



he took in hand the materials lying nearest to him. But to him 

 belongs the undying credit of having given to stock-breeding, 

 just at the period when it had become imperative, the impetus 

 which sufficed to lead up to the splendid results of to-day. He 

 had a theory of breeding, no doubt, and that he should have 

 left no record of it is a fact greatly to be deplored by every 

 breeder who has succeeded him. Yet at the same time others 

 copied, willingly so far as he was concerned, the arts by which 

 he succeeded ; and of those who paid him visits for the purpose, 

 Charles Colling has left the greatest name. 



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