52 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



value. Mr. Day traveled with him nearly six years, through the 

 principal parts of England and Scotland, till at Oxford, on the i9th 

 of February, the ox dislocated his hip bone, and continued in that 

 state till the i5th of April, when he was killed, and notwithstanding 

 he must have lost considerable flesh during these eight weeks of 

 illness, yet his dead weight was : 



Four quarters, 2322 pounds. 



Tallow, 156 " 



Hide 142 " 



2620 pounds. 



This was at the age of eleven years, under all the disadvantages of 

 six years traveling in a jolting carriage, and eight weeks of painful 

 lameness. At ten years old Mr. Day stated his live weight to have 

 been nearly 3400 pounds. 



About the year 1806, Robert Colling reared a thoroughbred heifer, 

 afterwards called the "White Heifer that Traveled," which he sent 

 out through the principal agricultural counties for exhibition ; the 

 date of her birth is not given in the first volume E. H. B., where 

 her pedigree is recorded. She was also got by Favorite (252), her 

 dam called "Favorite Cow," also bred by R. Colling; the name of 

 "Favorite Cow's "sire is not given. Her gr. dam, "Yellow Cow," 

 was by Punch (531), and her g. gr. dam was by Anthony Reed's bull 

 (538), and bred by Mr. Best, of Manfield. The "White Heifer" 

 being twinned with a bull, and herself not breeding, she was no 

 doubt fed up to her greatest flesh-taking capacity during her life. 

 Her age, when slaughtered, is not given, but the account states that 

 her live weight could not have been less than 2300 pounds, and her 

 dead (profitable) weight was estimated at 1820 pounds. 



There were other extraordinary large and heavy cattle bred and 

 fed by the Short-horn breeders contemporary with the Collings, 

 whose recorded weights we might give, but as they all run in about 

 the same scale, it is not important to record them here. It is suffi- 

 cient to say that the great reputation which the Collings and their 

 animals acquired was through the wider knowledge which the public 

 abroad obtained of them by these public exhibitions. Thus the 

 Collings became conspicuously known, and were considered by those 

 not intimately acquainted with the other breeders around them, as, 

 if not the founders, at least the great improvers of that newly adver- 

 tised and meritorious race. 



