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same manner as those of the Darley Arabian, and Godolphin 

 Barb, in the case of Horses of the Turf. The properties of 

 his stock thus became more and more appreciated through- 

 out the district of the Short-horns, and, about the year 1800, 

 had begun to extend to distant parts of the country, where 

 hitherto the Short-horned Breed had not been cultivated. 

 A circumstance, apparently trivial, contributed in a consi- 

 derable degree to this result. A fine animal, termed the 

 Durham Ox, the son of Favourite by a common cow, was 

 sold for public exhibition, and carried in a caravan to all 

 parts of the country. He was exhibited in this manner for 

 nearly six years, and excited much interest amongst the 

 country people. He arrived at great weight, but was chiefly 

 remarkable for the fineness of many of his points. When 

 killed, after two months' illness, during which he had lost 

 considerably in flesh, he weighed 165 stones 12 lb., besides 

 tallow and offal. 



Colling, by continually breeding from his own stock, seems 

 to have pushed refinement in breeding to its limits, and pro- 

 bably began to experience that impairment of constitution in 

 his animals which never fails to accompany a continued and 

 forced intermixture of blood, in a limited number of indi- 

 viduals. Whether from this cause, or from a mere desire to 

 try experiments, it is understood that he attempted various 

 crosses with the cows of other breeds, and chiefly, it is said, 

 with the Scotch Highland and the Galloway. The experi- 

 ment with the former did not succeed, but that with the 

 latter led to a remarkable result. Colling procured a fine 

 Galloway cow, of a red colour, and this cow was covered by 

 one of his best bulls, a grandson of Bolingbroke. The pro- 

 duce was a bull-calf, which in due time was conjoined with a 

 fine Short-horned cow, Johanna. The produce of this union 

 was likewise a bull-calf, which, in the fitting time, was put to 

 another fine Short-horned cow, Lady, from whom has de- 

 scended a family termed, in reproach, the Alloy. The family 

 of the Alloy, however, has proved not inferior to those of 



