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refreshed the soul of Charles Colling could 

 he have returned to these terrestrial scenes. 

 Scarcely -less able, and scarcely less successful 

 were a number of others. Charles Colling 

 seems to have regarded the cow Lady Maynarcl, 

 which he purchased of Mr. Maynard of Ery- 

 holme, as unsurpassed by any product of his 

 own long life as a breeder, but for our purpose 

 the Collings stand out most strikingly; indeed 

 they fairly accomplished more than all their 

 contemporaries, and their just meed of praise 

 is a large one. Shortly after the year 1780 

 they began to breed independently, having 

 been raised under the shadow of the best of 

 the old Short-horn traditions on their father's 

 farm. They early adopted the Bakewell meth- 

 ods, and, Charles Colling having acquired 

 Hubback, the corner-stone of the improved 

 Short-horn breed was laid. The early days of 

 the breeding of these brothers shows a cautious 

 spirit; adhering, indeed, in a general way, to 

 the Bakewell view, they were yet restrained 

 by the older methods and the generally 

 adopted physiological theory from throwing 

 themselves too boldly into a course of close 

 inbreeding. Consequently we find the Hub- 

 back stock inbred, but inbred with great cir- 

 cumspection and evident avoidance of extreme 

 incrosses. It was not till the great bull Favor- 

 ite (252) was produced by such a course of 



