148 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE ELDER SHORT-HORN BREEDERS CONTEMPORARY WITH THE 

 COLLINGS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS. 



OF the elder breeders, we regret that no clear history of their 

 labors reach us except incidentally, as we find occasional references 

 to them in the scanty agricultural publications of their day, and trace 

 the pedigrees of their stocks in the earlier volumes of the English 

 Herd Books. John Maynard was the senior of the Ceilings in breed- 

 ing, Charles having bought in 1786 or '7, his cows Lady Maynard, 

 and her daughter, Young Strawberry, from Maynard's herd. There 

 were the Blackets, the Aislabies, the Milbanks, the Pennymans, the 

 elder Stevenson, and others, anterior to the Collmgs, whose names 

 have been incidentally mentioned in our previous pages, who bred 

 famous cattle, but of them we have been able to glean few particu- 

 lars. The first volume of the English Herd Book, published in 1822, 

 contained the names of but about one hundred and forty breeders, 

 including the Collings, Booths, and Thomas Bates. 



Among the immediate contemporaries of the Collings, and the elder 

 Booth, was Christopher Mason, of Chilton. He bred largely, pos- 

 sessed a valuable herd, purchased and used bulls from the Collings, 

 and many noted animals of the present day are found descended 

 from his stock. He was among the first class breeders of his time, 

 and made a large, if not final sale of his herd in the year 1829, of 

 which Lord Althorpe (afterwards Earl Spencer) purchased quite a 

 number. The larger breeders, whose names are in the first Herd 

 Book, aside from those already named, were Lord Althorpe, of 

 Wiseton ; Messrs. Alderson, of Ferrybridge ; Bower, of Welham ; Cham- 

 pion, of Blythe ; Charge, of Newton ; Coates (first editor of the Herd 

 Book), of Carlton ; Compton, of Northumberland ; Curwen, of Cum- 

 berland; Earnshaw, of Ferrybridge; Gibson, of Northumberland; 

 Hutchinson, of Stockton ; Hustler, of Acklam ; Ibetson, of Denton 



Park ; William Jobling, of ; Anthony Maynard, of Morton-le- 



Moor ; J. C. Maynard, of Harlsey ; Col. Mellish, of ; Ostler, of 



