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although put to good bulls and not breeding, as a last resort she was 

 coupled to this Grandson of Bolingbroke, when a yearling, in 1795, 

 and by him she had a red and white heifer calf in the year 1796. 

 This calf Colling called "Lady." She had one-eighth part Galloway 

 blood. Proving a very good one, Colling reared this heifer, and at 

 maturity bred her successively to his bulls Favorite (252), her half 

 brother; Cupid (177), otherwise closely related to her; and to Comet 

 (155), still more closely related. She produced the heifers Countess, 

 one-sixteenth Galloway, by Cupid; and Laura, also one-sixteenth 

 Galloway, by Favorite, both of which proved fine cows. Her bull 

 calves were Washington (674), one-sixteenth Galloway, by Favorite; 

 also Major (397), one-sixteenth; George (276), one-sixteenth; and 

 Sir Charles (592), one-sixteenth Galloway, the three last ones by 

 Comet (155). 



The two "Alloy" bulls, "O'Callaghan's Son of Bolingbroke " (469), 

 and " Grandson of Bolingbroke " (280), as well as the cows Lady, and 

 her daughters Countess and Laura, and some of their descendants, 

 many years after Colling had sold them, were recorded in Vol. i, E. 

 H. B., with their Galloway crosses distinctly given. 



Such, through a single cross only in a Galloway cow, is the origin 

 of Berry's celebrated "Alloy" improvement, on the female side of 

 which the cow " Lady," only one-eighth of that blood (never breed- 

 ing back, either by herself or her descendants, to the Galloway again, 

 but on Short-horn blood continuously thereafter), was the sole 

 founder. 



In review of this whole matter which Mr. Berry has worked up, 

 through the Galloway cross in the cow Lady and her progeny, as a 

 deliberate plan for improvement by Colling on the blood and quality 

 of the Short-horns, we think it simply an accident. " Old Johanna " 

 had apparently ceased breeding not having dropped a calf for two 

 years ; and Son of Bolingbroke, in the failure of Ceiling's better bulls 

 to effect it, was used to restore her to fertility. It was under like 

 circumstances with the cow Phoenix. Although she had brought 

 several calves, and then ceased to breed from his best bulls, Colling 

 required further use of her, and as a last resort, put her to the 

 Grandson of Bolingbroke. This connection producing a calf (Lady), 

 he then put her to her own son, Favorite, and Young Phoenix, the 

 future dam of Comet (155), was the produce. If Colling really 

 intended the improvement, why did he not, after she had produced 

 Lady, again put her to the bastard to continue his improvement? 



