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thousand pounds more. This was read by Col. Hellish at the King's 

 Head (tavern), Darlington, and caused great consternation in the 

 neighborhood, as the catalogue did not mention any particulars of 

 the breeding of Grandson of Bolingbroke." [It will be remembered 

 that the first volume E. H. B., containing the pedigrees of Short- 

 horn cattle was not published until 1822, twelve years after the sale.] 

 " Many were disappointed, and others said if they had known of the 

 transaction they would not have purchased. Mr. Robert Colling 

 also told Mr. Wiley that he had no doubt it was quite a thousand 

 pounds ($5,000) loss to his brother having the Alloy blood in his 

 herd." 



So much, therefore, for Mr. Berry's pretended " improvement " of 

 the Short-horns by Charles Colling in his breeding, rearing and 

 selling thirteen animals only of this Galloway cross at the final sale 

 of his herd. He might, possibly, previous to the sale have bred other 

 animals of that cross, but as it appears that the " Alloy " blood was 

 little known out of his own neighborhood, if he did breed others, 

 they might have been sold by him, and neither their names nor the 

 names of their produce ever got into the Herd Books. 



To show even Ceiling's estimate of the value of the "Alloys," he 

 never put Grandson of Bolingbroke to any superior cow, except 

 Phoenix, the dam of Lady (and probably would not have used him 

 with her, if she would have bred to his other bulls, which she would not). 

 Nor did he use any Alloy bull, except Lady's first calf, Washington 

 (694). He only put him one season, to three or four cows, and they 

 produced nothing of any prominent value. " The Alloy blood was 

 confined to Lady, her daughters, and the produce of her daughters ; 

 nor did he suffer it to run into any other of his choice tribes. The 

 Alloys were deficient in milk, which always kept them in good con- 

 dition, and being round and plump in form, with fine hair, those 

 qualities, in spite of their slight fraction of Galloway blood, while 

 their Short-horn blood being of the very best, sold them so well. 

 Nor were the prices the Alloy family brought equal to some other 

 families. The Alloys averaged about 160 guineas; the Phoenix fam- 

 ily, including Comet, 491 guineas (without Comet, 237 guineas); 

 and the Daisy family 175 guineas." The best breeders did not touch 

 the Alloys. 



Berry winds up his account with a triumphant flourish over this 

 final sale of Charles Colling, in which the Alloys sold at such good 

 prices, and as a consequence, claimed that the Galloway cross was 

 an actual improvement in the original Short-horn blood. But it 



