SHORT-HORNS. i» 



by agreement, Mr. Colling was to have the bull calves, and the Col- 

 onel to retain the heifers. One dropped a heifer, and the other a 

 bull calf, in 1V92 ; the latter, by the bargain, was Mr. Colling's. 

 He was kept a bull until about a year old. Johanna, [fi very mode- 

 rate cow,) got by the I,ame bull, (a very moderate one,) not having 

 bred for two years, was, in 1793, turned to run with this young bull ; 

 he got her in calf, and was then castrated and fed as a steer, and 

 was never used to any other cow. In 1794 Johanna dropped a bull 

 calf, the Grandson of Bolingbroke, one fourth Galloway. If this 

 cross had been made to improve the short-horns, wotild Mr. Collino- 

 have used his poorest cow, old Johanna, to do it with ? Old Phoe- 

 nix produced Favorite in Oct. 1793, and had no calf in 1794, nor 

 1795, and, during all that time, was bulled by Bolingbroke and other 

 bulls of the pure blood, until, as a last hope, she was turned into the 

 Btraw-yard in the winter of 1795-96, to run with this Grandson of 

 Bolingbroke, and he got her in calf; and she in the autumn of 1796 

 dropped the cow. Lady. Mr. Colling never used this Grandson of 

 Bolingbroke to any other cow. Lady's first calf was Washington. 

 Mr. CoUing used him to only three or four cows one season, and 

 these produced nothing of any particular value. He was used by 

 Mr. Colling no more ; and he never used any other bull out of her 

 or her daughters. The alloy in his hands was confined to Lady, her 

 daughters, and the produce of her daughters. He never suffered 

 that blood to run into his Daisy tribe, his Duchess tribe, nor the rest 

 of his Lady Maynard tribe. 



This alloy family was always extraordinarily deficient in milk, and 

 at the sale in 1810, giving little milk, were most remarkable for then- 

 high condition, and this sold them well. 



The family of Lady, her daughters, and the produce of her 

 daughters, numbered thirteen at the sale of Mr. Colling, in 1810, 

 and were far more numerous than any other. No other family num- 

 bered over Jive. The alloy family sold for 2082 guineas, and aver- 

 aged 160 guineas; the Phoenix family, including Comet, averaged 

 491 g's., and without Comet averaged 237 g's. ; and the Daisy fam- 

 ily averaged 175 g's. The pure blood brought higher prices than 

 the alloy ; and in the leading families of the pure blood made higher 

 averages. No other family could make so great an aggregate. 



At this day in England they have ceased to claim any merit for 

 the Galloway cross, and freely admit that it did no good, and that 

 when animals having it are good, they are so in spite of that cross, 

 not in consequence of it; hxxt from their short-horn blood. 



The most extraordinary sales of short-horns in modern davs, were 

 those of the herds of Earl Spencer and Mr. Bates ; and these 

 breeders wholly rejected and avoided the Galloway alhni, as did Mr. 

 Mason, (the contemporary and intimate friend of Mr. Colling) from 

 whom Lord Spencer derived his cattle. 



