198 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



These crosses are necessarily outside of our 

 purview. 



An interesting chapter of Short-horn history 

 resulted from a cross made in early days by two 

 gentlemen, one of whom was the celebrated im- 

 prover' Mr. Charles Colling. About the year 

 1791 Col. O'Calahan, a neighbor of Mr. Coil- 

 ing's, bred a red polled Galloway heifer to Mr. 

 Colling's bull Bolingbroke (86), and she pro- 

 duced a bull calf known as "Son of Boling- 

 broke." This bull was bred to Johanna by 

 Lame Bull (358), and produced a bull calf 

 known as Grandson of Bolingbroke. Both of 

 these bulls were recorded in the English Short- 

 horn Herd Book, with the numbers (469) and 

 (280). The last named bull was put to Phoenix, 

 the dam of Favorite (252), and got the heifer 

 calf Lady, which produced a number of calves 

 to Colling's most esteemed sires, such as Favor- 

 ite (252), Cupid (177), and Comet (155). This 

 family, on account of the Galloway blood, came 

 to be known as the " alloy, " and the cattle were 

 certainly very good ones, and as the lines of 

 purity of blood were not very strictly drawn at 

 that time no special attention was paid to the 

 cross. At the great closing-out sale in 1810 

 some nineteen head of cattle with the Gallo- 

 way cross in them were sold at an average 

 price of about one hundred and thirty-eight 

 guineas, or about seven hundred dollars, one of 



