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as his best stock. The blood percolated very 

 widely and got into most good herds without 

 doing any damage that was ever heard of. Mr. 

 Allen, in his history of Short-horn cattle, seeks 

 to explain away the very remarkable prices the 

 " alloy " cattle brought by saying that they were 

 "high in flesh and most of them sold to the 

 newer breeders, who were taken by the good 

 looks of the animals," and seems to think this 

 is a sufficient explanation of their high prices. 

 But when one counts among the purchasers 

 Messrs. R. Colling, Charles Wright, Thomas 

 Booth, and Maj. Rudd and Sir Henry Yane 

 Tempest, one-half of the explanation falls to 

 the ground; and as it was to gain "flesh" and 

 "fine looks" that the cross was made, if made 

 for any purpose, the other half falls, too. As 

 a matter of fact the Colling bulls had made 

 a great family on the basis of the out-and-out 

 Galloway blood with its North Country hardi- 

 ness. 



The Collings tried both plans, wavered some- 

 what at times, made the Galloway cross, and 

 sent it into the herds of the best of later breed- 

 ers, including Booth and Bates. But their 

 legacy to the world was a belief in in-and-in 

 breeding for the bulls, which they showed were 

 never used at better advantage than when used 

 on outbred or short-pedigreed cows. Not a few 

 leading breeders, while seeking the blood of 



