150 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



with many others afterwards purchased by American breeders and 

 brought to the United States. 



Sometime after the sale of Robert Colling, Col. Trotter, who was a 

 purchaser there, sold three cows from that stock to Col. Hellish for 

 ^2,210, equal to $3,683 each. Col. Hellish afterwards sold one of 

 them to Hajor Bower, of Welham, for 800 guineas ($4,200). 



In view of such authenticated sales we can have no doubt that 

 many of the successors of the Collings, the elder Booth, Haynard, 

 Wetherell, and their contemporaries, sold many choice animals at 

 extraordinary prices, showing the right estimate still maintained of 

 their excellence. We regret that we have been confined to such a 

 limited early account of individual sales. Yet if we had them it 

 would hardly be necessary to multiply the many decided evidences 

 of Short-horn values. 



Succeeding the efforts of the Collings and their contemporary 

 breeders, the merits of the Short-horns gained widely in public esti- 

 mation and popularity, not only in the counties comprising their 

 ancient homes, but they were eagerly sought by the larger land-owners 

 among the nobility and gentry of neighboring, and even distant coun- 

 ties, as well as tenant farmers the former to encourage the improve- 

 ment of the breeds of neat cattle on their estates at large, and the 

 latter to improve and render more valuable their own individual 

 herds as the most profitable stock they could rear. Thus the number 

 of pure-bred animals increased in a more rapid ratio than ever 

 before, while their crosses upon the common and baser breeds multi- 

 plied indefinitely, both as grazing and dairy stock. 



It would be an exhausting, if not impossible labor, to enumerate 

 all the various breeders of established Short-horn blood in Great 

 Britain since the days of the Collings. The names of the most prom- 

 inent among their contemporaries, and immediate successors, have 

 already been given, and for those who have since entered the ranks 

 the pages of the English Herd Book must be examined. But to 

 show their extent, these breeders can be numbered by many hundreds, 

 among them the Royal household, every order of nobility titled 

 women as well and descending in rank through every intermediate 

 class of ownership to the well-to-do tenant farmer. Not that we 

 ignore other valuable breeds of cattle which, from time immemorial, 

 have existed in Britain and elsewhere, and have maintained and 

 still maintain their advocates and breeders ; nor do we claim a univer- 

 sal favor towards the Short-horns beyond all others ; but they have 

 developed such prominent qualities of excellence as to render them 



