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choice tribes were established; these cows they bred to their best 

 bulls, and sold their produce to different breeders, so that the Herd 

 Book, not originating until 1822, some years after they had both 

 given up cattle breeding, does not represent all the animals of their 

 herds. Their stock, outside of the choicest families, were not uni- 

 form in either their several qualities, or individual merits. But 

 having prime animals of their best families, those gave them their 

 reputation as leading breeders, or improvers of the Short-horn race. 



Comparing the various characteristics of the most noted cattle in 

 the Colling herds let us see what was said of them by their con- 

 temporaries : 



Lady Maynard, red roan, is described as a beautiful cow, and her 

 daughter, Young Strawberry, color not given, as having much of 

 her character. 



Hubback was yellow red with little white, a smooth, small bull, 

 and the quality of his flesh, hide and hair, seldom equaled ; head 

 good ; horns small and fine ; breast forward ; handling firm ; shoulders 

 rather upright ; girth good ; loins, body and sides fair ; rumps and hips 

 extraordinary ; flank and twist wonderful. His dam a beautiful little 

 cow, and became so fat by running in the lanes of Darlington that 

 she would not afterwards breed and was slaughtered. She the dam 

 of Hubback was got by Banks' bull, of Hurworth (not in the Herd 

 Books), and he, Banks' bull, had a great belly. The grand dam of 

 Hubback, on the dam's side, was bred by Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton. 

 Snowdon's bull (626), sire of Hubback, was out of a daughter of a 

 cow bought from the same Mr. Stephenson. 



The cow Haughton (dam of Foljambe), yellow red and white (got 

 by Hubback), her dam by John Bamlet's bull (not in Herd Book), 

 gr. d. by Waistell's bull (669), g. gr. d. Tripes, bred by C. Pickering. 

 We find no description of her. Charles Colling afterwards bought 

 Bamlet's bull, from which fact we presume he was possessed of excel- 

 lent qualities. 



Foljambe, "white, with a few red spots, and a dark nose; handle 

 good ; wide back ; dark face ; a large, strong bull ; a useful, big, bony, 

 thick beast of great substance." 



Duchess (the Stanwick cow), " Charles Colling bought 1 4th June, 

 1784, for ^"13 ($65), a massive, short-legged cow; breast near the 

 ground ; a great grower, with wide back, and of a beautiful yellowish 

 flaked red color."* Colling himself said that "she was better than 



* Mr. Bates, in Bell's History. 



