120 Cattle. 



4. Mr. C. Colling did not reduce the size of his short-horns, but, 

 on the contrary, increased it. 



Hubback was a small bull. Mr. Berry, supposing a reduction of 

 size aimed at, says, (at page 97,) "the quality of his flesh, hide, 

 and hair are supposed to have been seldom equalled ; and as he was 

 smaller than the Teeswater cattle, he was eminently calculated to 

 forward Mr. Colling's views." Mr, Foss, in a letter to Mr. Hutchin- 

 son, says the dam of Hubback was a " beautiful little short-horned 

 cow." Smallness of size was then a family trait with Hubback. 



It is also known that Mr. Colling's cows, Haughton, by Hubback, 

 bought of Alexander Hall ; Lady Maynard, and her daughter, Young 

 Strawberry, bought of Mr. Maynard, were all small cows. Haughton 

 was the dam of the bull Foljambe, (a large one,) bred by Mr. Col- 

 ling, got by Barker's h\A\, (a very large one); Young Strawberry, 

 the dam of Bolingbroke, (a medium sized bull,) got by Foljambe ; 

 and Lady Maynard, the dam of Phoenix, (a very large cow). Fa- 

 vorite — a very large hull — was got by Bolingbroke, out of Phoenix. 



Favorite was calved in 1793, eight years after C. Colling began to 

 breed ; and beginning in 1795, he scarcely used any other bull for 

 ten years ; putting him to his own daughters, even in the second 

 generation, (as by Favorite, dam by Favorite, grandam by Favorite). 

 In the catalogue of his sale, of the forty-seven animals named, forty- 

 three were got by Favorite and his sons, and all save one were got 

 by Favorite, his sons, and grandsons. 



Mr. R. Waistell, son of the Mr. Waistell who jointly with R. Col- 

 ling owned Hubback, says as to Foljambe : — " He was a large strong 

 bull, a useful, great, big, hony beast, of great substance." Mr. 

 Waistell also says, " Favorite was a grand beast, very large, and 

 open, had a fine brisket, with a good coat, and was as good a hand- 

 ler as ever was felt." Mr. Allen, in his " History and Traditions," 

 says, " Phoenix, the dam of Favorite, was a large 'open honed cow, 

 with more horn, and altogether coarser than her dam, the beautiful 

 Ladv Maynard ;" and again, " Favorite was a large massy animal, 

 -partaking more of the character of his dam Phoenix, than that of his 

 sire. He possessed remarkably good loins, and long level hind 

 quarters ; his shoulder points stood wide, and were somewhat coarse, 

 and too forward in the neck ; his horns also, in comparison with 

 Hubback's, were long and strong." 



Col. Trotter, an old breeder, born in 1764, in a letter to Mr. 

 Bates, says that " Barker's bull, (sire of Foljambe,) was a large coarse 

 beast, with a large head." 



Of the get of Favorite, Mr. Berry, in his history — pages 99-104 — 

 mentions two — the Durham Ox, and Robert Colling's White Heifer; 

 the ox's live weight was 3780 lbs! the heifer's dead weight at four 

 years was estimated at 1820 lbs! Her live weight could not have 

 been less than 2300 lbs ! doubtless the largest four year old short- 



