FOLJAMBE. 45 



Succeeding Hubback, in Charles Ceiling's herd, we recall and 

 notice Foljambe (263) [Hubback 's grandson on the dam's side], by 

 Richard Barker's bull (52), already mentioned. " Barker's bull was of 

 good size and symmetry, but rather a hard handler, the winner of a 

 premium, as a calf, in the year 1784, at Darlington, and generally 

 known as 'Dicky Barker's black nose.'" Foljambe also had a dark 

 nose, so said Mr. Bates. Foljambe's dam was Mr. Hall's cow Haugh- 

 ton (by Hubback), before named, and "Colling considered that Fol- 

 jambe left him the best stock which he had.* He is described as a 

 useful, thick beast, handle good, wide back, dark face, and was sold 

 by Mr. Coates to Mr. Foljambe,! as a yearling for 50 guineas " J ($260). 



Another description says that " he was a large, strong bull, a useful, 

 big, bony beast, of great substance." 



Thus the brothers Colling progressed. The prices of the Tees- 

 waters at that day were low. - The country, outside the counties where 

 they were bred, knew little either of the cattle or their value. Wais- 

 tell and Robert Colling had bought Hubback for ten guineas (about 

 $52), and Charles paid them only eight guineas ($42) for him ; and no 

 wonder that they so bought him, when he. had been serving cows 

 indiscriminately at one shilling (or 22 cents) each! "Mrs. Charles 

 Colling ridiculed her husband's niggardliness in giving Mr. Maynard 

 only 30 guineas for the cow Favorite (Lady Maynard) and 10 guineas 

 ($52) for her heifer, Young Strawberry, although he bid 50 guineas 

 ($260) to Mr. Scott for 'Sockburn Sail,' the ancestress of the pres- 

 ent Blanche tribe. The cows lay out in the fields, having a little hay 

 taken out to them in bad weather, but always calved in a warm place. 

 The calves had new milk till they were two or three weeks old, then 

 for a month they got half and half (new and skim), afterwards skim 

 milk with linseed bran, or other meal, or porridge ; they were then 

 turned out to grass, getting nothing else. Nurse cows were kept for 

 the bull calves, going out on hire." J 



The Collings are the first mentioned Short-horn breeders who let 

 bulls out on hire. Mr. John Hutchinson, in a letter dated in 1821, 

 says : " Charles Colling, being an established breeder, exhibited in 

 the spring of 1790, his first two yearling bulls for sale, and succeeded 



* That Collbg so said, we have no doubt. But from all collateral testimony we have as little 

 doubt that it wi.s the result of his chagrin at having so prematurely parted with Hubback, before 

 he knew the intrinsic value of his blood and stock. L. F. A. 



"t There appears to be some discrepancy as to the different transfers and ownerships, as well as 

 to which Hall or Colling really bred Foljambe. L. F. A 



% Thornton's Circular. 



