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which the English Herd Book has recorded have been mentioned, 

 and many of the chief points and excellencies, as well as defects of 

 their animals, have been noticed, and every bull and every cow to 

 which the Ceilings traced their best or choicest blood in animals of 

 their own breeding were bred by others, and not by themselves. 

 That it was a master stroke of sagacity, as well as policy, in their 

 collecting some of the best cattle to be found on which to base their 

 herds will be conceded ; for having the tools in their hands the value 

 of their workmanship in the use of thorn could best be judged. 



Let us follow (although it may be repeating a portion of what we 

 have already stated) the course of the Collings somewhat in detail, 

 for it is only in details that accurate results can be gathered. In the 

 year 1784 Charles bought the Stanwir.k, or original Duchess cow, 

 from the estate of the Duke of Northumberland in Yorkshire. The 

 cow Haughton (by Hubback) he soon afterwards bought from Mr. 

 Hall; and in 1786 or '87, he bought "Favorite, or Lady Maynard," 

 and her daughter, "Young Strawberry," from Mr. Maynard. Here 

 were four prime cows to start with, and from which most of his 

 animals on which his chief reputation was a.cquired descended. In 

 1784 he bought the bull Hubback from his brother Robert and Mr. 

 Waistell, neither of whom bred him. In the pages of Vol. i, E. H. 

 B., are found some animals bred by Colling having a double cross of 

 Hubback ; but as he did not keep the bull more than two years, not 

 giving time enough to put him to his own daughters, except as the 

 latter were yearlings, it is not probable that he had that double cross 

 in his own breeding. Aside from this we have the authority of the 

 late Thomas Bates, who was familiar with Ceiling's whole course of 

 breeding, that he made no such second cross in any heifer bred by 

 himself. Of course, if he had cows with a double cross of Hubback 

 in their blood he must have obtained them from other parties, of 

 which we may suppose there may have been several in the neighbor- 

 hood, as the bull had been freely used in getting calves, as before 

 stated, at a shilling each. Thus he had an early infusion cf Hubback 

 blood. Next to Hubback he used Foljambe,* out of the cow Haugh- 

 ton, and she by Hubback, thus combining the Hubback blood through 

 Foljambe more closely in his herd. Colling bred a heifer, by Hub- 

 back, out of the Duchess (Stanwick) cow, but we have no record of 

 a female by Hubback out of either Lady Maynard or her daughter, 

 Young Strawberry; but out of Lady Maynard he .bred the cow 



* Got by Barker's (Richard) bull (52), u Dickey Barker's black nose," previously mentioned. 



