54 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



Among the cows bred by Robert Colling was one which has ob- 

 tained celebrity through her descendants as "The American Cow;" 

 and it has been a subject of inquiry during late years, both in Eng- 

 land and America, why a cow so ancient in lineage should have been 

 called by a name so foreign to her birth-place, and after a country 

 where the Short-horns at that time were almost unknown. We first 

 find her name in the pedigree of Red Rose, in first edition of Vol. i, 

 p. 457, E. H. B., as follows: "Red, calved in 1811, bred by Mr. 

 Hustler, property of Mr. T. Bates, got by Yarborough (705), dam 

 (bred by R. Colling, and called The American Cow), by Favorite 

 (252), gr. d. by Punch (531), g. gr. d. by Foljambe (263), g. g. gr. d. 

 by Hubback (319)." 



In the above pedigree The American Cow is originally identified. 

 In Vol. 2, p. 497, first edition E. H. B., the same Red Rose is again 

 recorded as Red Rose ist, her dam being "The American Cow," 

 as before. In a conversation with Mr. John Thornton, of London, 

 when in this country in the winter of 187071, (who is as well versed 

 in English Short-horn pedigrees, perhaps, as any other,) he remarked 

 that he had never learned why the American Cow was so called, 

 although he had made diligent inquiries in England for the reason. 



The American history of the cow, as we have been informed on 

 authority which we deem good, is this : In some year, not long after 

 1 80 1, a son of Mr. Hustler, who was a Short-horn cattle breeder in 

 Yorkshire, emigrated to New York, and brought with him some Short- 

 horn cattle, among which was this nameless cow, or then heifer, 

 afterwards dam of the Red Rose ist, which his father bought of 

 Robert Colling. The younger Hustler went into business in New 

 York City, and put his cattle into the adjoining county of Westchester. 

 After a few years stay in America, he returned to England, and not 

 finding his Short-horns appreciated on this side the ocean, (as 

 we find no record of them or their produce in this country,) Mr. 

 Hustler took this cow back with him, as she was a remarkably good 

 beast, and put her into his father's herd. Then, on being put to 

 Yarborough, she became the dam of Red Rose, afterwards purchased 

 by Mr. Bates, he calling her Red Rose ist, which, in his hands, was 

 the original of the tribe of Red Rose, from whom many excellent 

 animals have descended. The only English account we have of 

 The American Cow, aside from her pedigree, which we have quoted, 

 is, that "she was sent to America, and taken back to England." 



It is hardly necessary to follow Robert Colling through the various 

 particulars of his breeding, as we have done more closely with 



