day sold them to a Mr. Basnett, a timber 

 dealer. Ownership of the calf was later 

 transferred to William Fawcett, near 

 Haughton, in the same neighborhood. 

 Here he came into active service and 

 was used about three years by Mr. Faw- 

 cett, he charging a service fee of 1 shill- 

 ing, or about 25 cents American money. 



Among the early Shorthorn breeders 

 of this time and in this vicinity was a 

 Mr. "Waistell and Robert and Charles 

 Colling. Waistell and Robert Colling, on 

 Good Friday, 1783, visited Mr. Fawcett 

 and tried to buy this bull. The price was 

 10 guineas, and they offered 8, which was 

 refused. On the next Sunday Mr. Wais- 

 tell visited Fawcett and bought the bull 

 at the price asked. Returning home, he 

 met Robert Colling of Barmpton and told 

 him what he had done. Then Colling 

 agreed to pay half, and thus have a 

 partnership in the bull, which was ac- 

 cepted. These two used the bull during 

 the summer of 1783, on about twenty- 

 eight cows. In November, that year, 

 they sold him to Charles Colling of Ket- 

 ton for 8 guineas, and it is claimed that 

 Mr. Waistell was to have service for 

 his cows as long as Charles Colling 

 owned him. In February, 1784, Waistell 

 sent a cow to be bred, and Colling re- 

 turned word the service fee would be 5 

 guineas, with which W^aistell indignantly 

 ordered the cow home unserved. Colling 

 kept this bull for two years in his herd, 

 and then sold him to a Mr. Hubback of 

 Northumberland, from whom the bull de- 

 rived his name. He was used in service 

 by Mr. Hubback until 1791, and was vig- 

 orous to the last. 



Hubback was yellow-red and white, 

 and history tells us that he was of the 

 smaller, short-legged, thick fleshed type. 

 Coates described him as having the 

 following qualities: "Head good, horns 

 small and fine, neck fine, breast well 

 formed and fine to the touch, shoulders 

 rather upright, girth good, loins, belly 

 and sides fair, rump and hips extraor- 

 dinary, flank and twist wonderful." He 

 was the last calf of his dam. She would 

 not breed again and was sold to the 

 butcher. She has been generally re- 

 garded as a cow of great handling qual- 

 ity. The quality of Hubback was no 

 doubt inherited from his dam. 



There is some difference of opinion as 

 to the greatness of Hubback as a sire. 



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