46 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



in selling them both. Mr. Coates, of Smeaton, was the purchaser of 

 one for 26 ($130), and Mr. R. Thomas of the other, for ^23 

 ($115)." Mr. Bailey, the Durham historian, writes in 1810, that 

 "Messrs. Colling and Mason let bulls out by the year at fifty ($260) 

 to one hundred guineas ($520) each, and these celebrated breeders 

 cannot supply the demand for the pure blood, which they are cautious 

 of preserving, and which takers of bulls are become so well acquainted 

 with that the prices they give are in proportion to the good qualities 

 of the individuals, and merits of their progenitors, more regard being 

 paid to their pedigree than to anything else. Messrs. Colling have fre- 

 quently sold cows and heifers for ;ioo ($500) each, and bull calves 

 at the same. Charles Colling has refused ^"500 ($2,500) for a cow, 

 and in the year 1807, Mr. Mason refused ^700 ($3,500) for a cow."* 

 " The most noted breeders who hired Charles Ceiling's bulls, were 

 John Charge, of Newton, who used Favorite (252); Mr. Mason, of 

 Chilton; Mr. Jobling, of Styford; Mr. Gibson, of Corbridge; Sir 

 George Strickland ; Mr. Robertson, of Ladykirk ; and Mr. Ostler, of 

 Aylesby and Audley. Windsor (696) was used by Mr. Hustler in 

 1808-9; Mr. Parker, of Malton, had him five years, and George III. 

 had him for three years, at ^40 ($200) a year, for service on the 

 royal farm at Windsor, whence he was named, "f 



THE MODE OF CHARLES COLLING'S BREEDING. 



To keep a run of Charles Ceiling's system of breeding: after 

 Hubback (319) he used Foljambe (263), who got Bolingbroke (86), 

 and Bolingbroke got Favorite (252), calved in 1793. He succes- 

 sively used Favorite, with occasional interims, for thirteen years, 

 beginning his services at two years old. At ten years old Favorite 

 begat Comet (155), calved in 1804; and the next year, at eleven years 

 old he begat North Star (458), full brother to Comet, calved in 1805. 

 These two bulls, celebrated in their day, were out of Young Phoenix, 

 his daughter and sister (she out of Phoenix, mother to Favorite, the 

 sire of Young Phoenix), as close interbreeding, perhaps, as could be 

 made. 



* Mr. Mason was contemporary with the Ceilings, a distinguished Short-horn breeder, and 

 many animals of his herds were probably equal in excellence to those of the Ceilings, as he had 

 early used the Colling bulls. His " Mason's white bull " (421), was got by either Bolingbroke or 

 Favorite, out of Ceiling's Lady Maynard. Many descendants of his stock are found in the Herd 

 Books. L. F. A. 



t Thornton's Circular. 



