COLLING'S MODE OF BREEDING. 



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To further illustrate Ceiling's in-and-in breeding, we give two dia- 

 grams of descent first published in Vol. i, American Herd Book : 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. 



1. Bull, Hubback. 



2. Dam of Haughton. 



3. Richard Barker's bull. 



4. Cow, Haughton. 



5. Bull, Foljambe. 



6. Cow, Young Strawberry. 



7. Bull Dalton Duke. 



8 and 10. Cow, Lady Maynard. 14. Bull, Comet. 

 9. Bull, Bolingbroke. 



11. Cow, Phoenix. 



12. Cow, Young Phoenix. 



13. Bull, Favorite. 



While on this subject we give a diagram of another animal, the cow 

 Clarissa, which we find on record, bred by Robert Colling, to show 

 the depth of a particular strain of blood which he acquired. This 

 cow, it appears, has six consecutive crosses or 63-64^13 parts of the 

 blood of Favorite. Her pedigree (Vol. i, E. H. B.) runs thus : 

 "Clarissa, roan, calved in 1814, bred by Mr. R. Colling, got by Wel- 

 lington (680), out of , by Favorite (252), by Favorite, by 



Favorite, by Favorite, by Favorite, by Favorite, by a son of 

 Hubback." (See diagram on next page.) 



In addition to the pedigree of Clarissa, we have run out that of 

 Wellington, her sire, which also goes back to Favorite, showing that 

 although Clarissa's dam had six crosses of Favorite's blood, Clarissa 

 is met on the other side by a bull deeply impregnated with the blood 

 of Favorite also. Clarissa proved a good breeder, and was the dam 

 of several excellent animals. 



After saying so much of the Collings, it may be asked, why they 

 so rapidly achieved a reputation as Short-horn breeders, so young in 



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