4O HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



as the latter owned him, but Waistell sending a cow the following 

 year, Colling refused the service unless paid five guineas for it.* The 

 cow was diiven home unserved, and Waistell had no cows sent to 

 the bull afterwards. 



Charles Colling kept the bull two years, using him freely in his 

 herd, and then sold him late in 1785, at ten years old, to a Mr. 

 Hubback, at North Seton, in Northumberland. "The bull had no 

 name when Colling sold him. Mr. Hubback used him (the bull then 

 being called Hubback's bull) until the year 1791, when he was fourteen 

 years old, and he was vigorous to the last. Mr. Thomas Bates saw 

 him, and calves got by him, in i7po."f 



Thus, the story, written by Mr. Berry, that " Hubback was partly 

 of Dutch blood, bought when a calf, running by his mother's side 

 in the lanes by Waistell and Robert Colling, and both, including 

 Charles Colling, using him but three years, when, by taking on so 

 much flesh he became impotent, and was slaughtered," is all, but 

 the three years' use, the sheerest invention. The facts, undoubtedly 

 were, that neither Waistell nor either of the Collings, truly appreci- 

 ated the merits of Hubback until after they had parted with him, 

 and saw the excellence of his stock as they grew up and developed. 

 He was a small bull ; his dam was small for a Short-horn but a 

 very handsome cow, of fine symmetry, with a nice touch, and fine, 

 long, mossy hair. All these choice qualities Hubback took from her, 

 and his hair remained unusually late in the spring before shedding. 

 As good size was a meritorious point in Short-horns at that time, it 

 is highly probable that the Collings discarded him for that deficiency 

 more than any other. Yet the subsequent reputation of Hubback, 

 among the breeders, stood higher than that of any bull of his time, 

 and it was considered a great merit in any Short-horn which could 

 trace its pedigree back into his blood, which, no doubt, could be 

 easily done, as he was, both before and after the Collings owned 

 him, open to the public at a cheap rate of service. Other animals 

 than those of Waistell and the Collings, recorded in the English Herd 

 Book, trace their pedigrees back to Hubback. 



One more, and as we think, conclusive evidence may be added to 

 the integrity of Hubback's Short-horn blood : " Mr. Charge, as well 

 as Mr. Coates, and Charles Colling, always deemed Hubback a pure 

 Short-horn ; and neither he nor his descendants when put on cows 



* From various transactions we have heard of him, with all his cleverness as a breeder, w 2 

 incline to the opinion that Charles Colling had an especial eye to his own interests. 

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