THE SHORT-HORNS. 



lbs.) ; Tallow, 11 stones 2 lbs. (156 lbs.) ; Hide, 10 stones 2lbs. (142 

 lbs.) ; total 2620 lbs. 



This was his weight at eleven years old, under all the disad- 

 vantages of traveling in a jolting carriage, and eight weeks of pain- 

 ful illness. Had he been kept quietly at Ketton, and fed till seven 

 years old, there is little doubt he would have weighed more than he 

 did at ten years old, at which age his live weight was two hundred 

 and seventy stones, (3780 lbs.) from which, if fifty be taken for 

 oflfal, it leaves the Aveight of the carcass two hundred and twenty 

 stones, (3080 lbs.) 



It is a well-ascertained fact, that, during his career as a breeder, 

 Mr. Colling tried several experiments in crossing, and the breeds to 

 which he resorted on these occasions being very considerably 

 smaller than the short-horns, this circumstance tends to corroborate 

 the writer's opinion that he considered it desirable to reduce theur 

 size. The cross with the Kyloe led to no results worthy enumera- 

 tion, but that with the polled Galloivay must not be passed over 

 without comment. Before stating the circumstances attending this 

 experiment, it may be proper to observe that no breed of cattle pro- 

 mised so successful a cross with the short- horns as the Galloway. 

 They were "calculated, by their deep massive frames and short legs, 

 to bring the short-horns nearer the ground, and to dispose their 

 weight in a more compact manner : their hardy habits would be es- 

 sentially useful, and the quality of their flesh and hair were such as 

 to render the experiment still more safe, and they could be obtained 

 of a red color ; even without the sanction of a successful experiment, 

 they were admirably adapted to cross with the short-horn, standing 

 frequently too high from the ground, not very well ribbed home, and 

 often of loose, disjointed frame. 



To this breed Mr. Colhng resolved to resort ; and though at the 

 time when he did so, the event was regarded with some degree of 

 ridicule by the pure-blood advocates, and comments passed which 

 would have deterred ordinary men from the exercise of their judg- 

 ment, Mr. Colling persisted. 



Mr. Colling's short-horned bull Bolinghroke was put to a beauti- 

 ful red polled Galloway cow, and the produce, a bull-calf, was, in 

 due time, put to Johanna, a pure short-horn — she also produced a 

 bull-calf. This grandson of Bolingbroke was the sire of the cow. 

 Lady, by another pure short-homed dam, and from Lady has sprung 

 the highly valuable family of improved short-horns, termed, in re- 

 proach, the alloy. How far the alloy was derogatory, let facts 

 testify.* 



* The dam of Lady was Phoenix, also the dam of the bull Favorite ; and as the 

 grandson of Bolingbroke is not known to have been the sire of any other remarkably 

 good animal, it is most probable that the unquestionable merit of Lady and hex 

 descendants is to be attributed more to her dam than to her sire. — Youatt. 



