92 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



" Mr. Robert Colling always opposed his brother using [the Alloy] 

 Grandson of Bolingbroke (280), and told Mr. Wiley that he did not 

 consider his brother's herd nor his own better than other good herds, 

 except the Phcenix tribe. In 1815 he stated that 'whatever I know 

 of the art of breeding cattle I owe to the late Mr. George Culley.'* 

 He [Robert Colling] was a stately, reserved man, the opposite to his 

 brother Charles, kind in his manner and straightforward in all his 

 dealings, keeping a good house and high company, and was liked by 

 all who knew him. Robert was one of the earliest disciples and 

 most intimate friends of the great Bakewell, and there is little doubt 

 that Bakewell's great principle of in-and-in breeding was carried out 

 most successfully by the Collings. Father to daughter and mother to 

 son, were the principal direct alliances, and the system was continued 

 so long as robustness and form were upheld."! 



Comparing the two herds of Robert and Charles, somewhat differ- 

 ent opinions were entertained by their contemporaries of the supe- 

 riority of one over the other. Both of them bred animals of marked 

 excellence and fame in their own time, and that excellence and fame 

 have been perpetuated through their blood down to the present day. 

 Robert, in his personal character, was more quiet and reticent; 

 Charles, the more active, self-confident, and prominent before the 

 public. Robert was equally sound in judgment, dabbling in no ex- 

 periments, while Charles was more or less versatile in both opinion 

 and practice. In a striking and no doubt accurate portrait of the 

 two brothers in our possession, that of Robert is remarkably good- 

 looking and portly, the features of the face expressive of an honest, 

 upright man. That of Charles, although still portly in look, is less 

 handsome than his brother; the face has not an equal frankness, 

 and a little cunning, withal, seems lurking in the expression. 



* Culley was an advocate of Bakewell's system of breeding. L. F. A. 



t We have no account that the "robustness and form" ever died out while the in-and-in breed- 

 ing stock remained in the hands of the Collings. L. F. A. 



