SHORT-HORNS. ui 



In Mr. Berry's first history, there is much matter that is omitted 

 in the second ; and much in the second not to be found in the first ; 

 and much in each that is discordant with the other. In the first one 

 the Galloway alloy is not named at all ; in the second that cross is 

 all that is held of any importance in the breeding of C. Colling. 



The points in Mr. Berry's account, here printed, (his second his- 

 tory,) which will be noticed and refuted, are 



1. The asserted importation of cattle from Holland about one hun- 

 dred years since, and the union of their blood with the then existing 

 short -horns of the valley of the Tees. 



2. The assertion that about one hundred years since, the breeders 

 of short-horns, in their pretended improvement, " proceeded on a judi- 

 cious system of crossing with other breeds, and one to which they 

 referred was in all probability the white wild breed." 



3. The claimed exclusive improvement effected in the Short-horns 

 by C. Colling. 



4. The assertion that Mr. C. Colhng adopted, as the rule of his 

 breeding, the reduction of the size of the short-horns bred by him. 



5. The account given of Hubback, in which it is impliedly said 

 that he was not a pure short-horn, and that he possessed on one 

 side the Dutch blood, and that from fat he early became useless. 



6. The whole account of the Galloway cross; the value of that 

 cross in consequence of the Galloway blood, and the assertion that 

 the cross was made deliberately and with a view to the improvement 

 of the short-horns. 



1. There was no importation of Dutch cattle, from Holland. 



Mr. Youatt in a note, page 95, says : " a large and valuable de- 

 scription of cattle existed on the western coast of the continent of 

 Europe, and extending from Denmark to France. They were cele- 

 brated for the great quantities of milk which they yielded, and some 

 of them exhibited an extraordinary aptitude to fatten. At what 

 particular time they found their way io England, or by whom im- 

 ported, is unknown." 



Mr. George Culley, who wrote in 17S5, says: "I remember a 

 gentleman of the county of Durham, (a Mr. Michael Dobison,) who 

 went in the early part of his life into Holland, in order to buy bulls ; 

 and those he brought over, I have been told, did much service in 

 improving the breed ; and this Mr. Dobison, and his neighbors even 

 in my day, were noted for having the best breeds of short-horned 

 cattle, and sold their bulls and heifers for very great prices. But 

 afterwards some other people of less knowledge going over, brought 

 home some bulls, that in all probability introduced into that coast 

 the disagreeable kind of cattle well known to the breeders upon the 

 river Tees, and called lyery, or double leyered, that is, black fleshed ; 

 and the flesh, (for it does not deserve to be called beef,) is black 

 and coarse grained a.s horse flesh." 



