Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

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120 CATTLE.
4. Mr. C. Colling did not reduce the size of his short-horns, but,
' on the contrary, increased it.
Hubback was a small bull. Mr. Berry, supposing a reduction of
size aimed at, says, (at page 97,) "the quality of his flesh, hide,
and hair are supposed to have been seldom equalled ; and as he was,.
smaller than the Teeswater cattle, he was eminently calculated to
forward Mr. Colling's views." Mr. Foss, in a letter to Mr. Hutchinson,
says the dam of Hubback was a " beautiful little short-horned
cow."' Smallness of size was then a family trait with Hubback.
It is also known that Mr. Colling's cows, Haughton, by Hubback,
bought of Alexander Hall ; Lady Maynard, and her daughter, Young
Strawberry, bought of Mr. Maynard, were all small cows. Haughton
was the dam of the bull Foljambe, (a large one,) bred by Mr. Colling,
got by Barker's bull, (a very large one); Young Strawberry,
the dam of Bolingbroke, (a medium sized bull,) got by Foljambe ;
and Lady Maynard, the dam of Phoenix, (a very large cow). Favorite
a very large bull—was got by Bolingbroke, out of Phcenix.
Favorite was calved in 1793, eight years after C. Colling began to
breed ; and beginning in 1795, he scarcely used any other bull for
ten years ; putting him to his own daughters, even in the second
generation, (as by Favorite, dam by Favorite, grandam by -Favorite).
In the catalogue of his sale, of the forty-seven animals named, fortythree
were got by Favorite and his sons, and all save one were got
by Favorite, his sons, and grandsons.
Mr. R. Waistell, son of the Mr. Waistell who jointly with R. Colling
owned Hubback, says as to Foljambe :— " He was a large strong
bull, a useful, great, big, bony beast, of great substance." Mr.
Waistell also says, " Favorite was a grand beast, very large, and
open, had a fine brisket, with a good coat, and was as good a hand-
ler as ever was felt." Mr. Allen, in his " History and Traditions,"
says, " Phoenix, the dam of Favorite, was a large open boned cow,
with more horn, and altogether coarser than her dam, the beautiful
Lady Maynard ;" and again, " Favorite was a large massy animal,
partaking more of the character of his dam Phcenix, than that of his
sire. He possessed remarkably good loins, and long level hind
quarters ; his shoulder points stood wide, and were somewhat coarse,
and too forward in the neck ; his horns also, in comparison with
Hubback's, were long and strong."
Col. Trotter, an old breeder, born in 1764, in a letter to Mr.
Bates, says that " Barker's bull, (sire of Foljambe,) was a large coarse
beast, with a large head."
Of the get of Favorite, Mr. Berry, in his history—pages 99-104—
mentions two—the Durham Ox, and Robert Colling's White Heifer
the ox's live weight was 3780 lbs! the heifer's dead weight at four
years was estimated at 1820 lbs ! Her live weight could not have
been less than 2300 lbs ! doubtless the largest four year old short-
;