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bull owned by Mr. C. Colling, senior ; the grandam was got by 

 Mr. Harrison's bull, (292) out of Tripes, by the Studley bull, 

 (626.)" 



" Mr. Robert Colling bought a twin heifer of me that was got by 

 Mr. Snowdon's bull, (012,) the sire of Hubback, and also a heifer 

 calf got by Hubback out of her ; and he bought her sister a year 

 or two after, which he fed off, and slie was an extraordinary fat 

 one. Their dam was got by Mr. James Mastermau's bull, (422,) 

 and was out of Mr. Thomas Hall's cow, sold to the Duchess of 

 Atholl. This last cow (called the Duchess of AthoU) was got 

 by Mr. Harrison's bull, (292,) and was out a famous good cow of 

 Mr. Thomas Hair3,that was a great griizier and \yas called Tripes. 

 Tripes was got by the Studley bull, (026.)'' 



'' The dam of the twins, sold by me to Mr. Robert Colling, get- 

 ting only grass, with no other food, gave eighteen quarts, ale 

 measure, of milk, at a milking, or thirty-six quarts a day for six 

 weeks after calving, and did tliis two years in succession, having 

 twins eacli year. I sold her milk at Darlington (two miles from 

 Haughton, where I lived) twice a day, and it was measured." 



" Mr. Robert Colling called the first twin heifer that he bought 

 of me. Bright-eyes, for the reason tliat she had remarkably bright 

 eyes. The grandam of tliis Bright-eyes, and the grandam of 

 Haughton, (Foljambe's dam,) were both by Mr. Harrison's bull, 

 (292,) and Avere own sisters, out of Tripes." 



" I bred a fine cow out of Bright-eyes' dam, that was put dry 

 of her milk in October, and sold to the butcher on the first Mon- 

 day of March following, at twenty-five guineas, and weighed 

 eighty-four stone (1,170 lbs.) in her four quarters, or beef only." 



" My brother, Mr. Tliomas Hall, bought the cow Tripes from 

 Mr. Charles Pickering, ot Foxton,near Sedgefield, who bred her; 

 And her dam was bred by Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton, of whom 

 Mr. Pickering got her." 



" Mr. Thos. Hall sold a sister to the dam of Bright-eyes for 

 twenty-five guineas, to go south. Another one half sister to the 

 dam of Bright-eyes, was sold to Mr. Hill,of Blackwell,for twen- 



