THE GALLOWAY CROSS. 63 



In the " Short-horn " history of his book Youatt, himself, seems to 

 have taken but little part. He jobbed that portion of it out to 

 Mr. Berry, who, in its compilation made it quite a different narrative 

 from that which his previous pamphlet contained. Much that was 

 in his pamphlet history is omitted, and much that was not in the 

 pamphlet is added in the Youatt history. In the latter Charles 

 Colling still holds the chief place as a breeder and improver a few 

 other names are slightly mentioned ; but Whitaker, with whom it is 

 said he had had _a difference since the pamphlet was published, is not 

 mentioned at all. Berry at that time was also possessed of some of 

 the "Alloy " blood, or Galloway cross, originally introduced by Charles 

 Colling, of which he makes prominent mention, and that cross he 

 asserted was the grand feature of "improvement" in the Short-horn 

 race which he now claimed that Colling had established. 



As this pretended improvement to which so much importance is 

 ascribed by Berry, was the sheerest fallacy, we shall lay it before the 

 reader. In the year 1791, after Charles Colling had been ten years a 

 Short-horn breeder, and got his choicest Short-horn families well 

 established, one of his neighbors, Colonel O'Callaghan, purchased 

 two Scotch Galloway, hornless heifers, and brought to his farm. 

 He agreed with Colling to have the heifers served to his bull 

 Bolingbroke (86), with the understanding that if the calves were 

 bulls, Colling was to have them; if heifers, O'Callaghan was to retain 

 them. One of these heifers, red in color, dropped a red and white 

 roan bull calf, in the year 1792, which immediately became the prop- 

 erty of Colling. The other calf was a heifer, which was kept by 

 O-'Callaghan. Colling had an aged Short-horn cow, "Old Johanna," 

 bred by himself, of moderate quality, got by "Lame bull " (358), bred 

 by Robert Colling. That is all which is given of her pedigree, no 

 dam being mentioned. Yet Lame bull had two crosses of Hubback 

 (319) in him, and his great grand dam was by James Brown's red 

 bull (97), so far giving him an excellent pedigree. Old Johanna not 

 having bred a calf for two years, was put to this Son of Bolingbroke 

 (from the Galloway heifer), when a yearling, and he got her in calf. 

 The produce was another bull calf, in 1794, Grandson of Bolingbroke 

 (280), red and white in color, which Colling also kept, being three- 

 fourths Short-horn and one-fourth Galloway blood. Colling's cow 

 Phcenix, the dam of Favorite (252), had become somewhat aged, -and 

 not having had a calf since the birth of Favorite in 1793 or '94 (for 

 both those dates are given with his pedigree in the English Herd 

 Book ; but Mr. Bates states it was in October, 1793, that he was born), 



