. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. SIIORTIIORN CATTLE. 15 called O'Callao-han's polled Galloway. Now tliis same 0'Calla<i;lian was Colonel James 0'Callahan, of the noble house of Lismore, and a j^reat friend of the late Duke of Cleveland, one of whose boroughs he represented for many years in the House of Commons. The duke, as Lord Lieu- tenant, also made him Colonel of the Durham militia. Having pitchal his tent, in the decline of life, at Heighington, in that county, he there ended his days as he had lived, a very
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. SIIORTIIORN CATTLE. 15 called O'Callao-han's polled Galloway. Now tliis same 0'Calla<i;lian was Colonel James 0'Callahan, of the noble house of Lismore, and a j^reat friend of the late Duke of Cleveland, one of whose boroughs he represented for many years in the House of Commons. The duke, as Lord Lieu- tenant, also made him Colonel of the Durham militia. Having pitchal his tent, in the decline of life, at Heighington, in that county, he there ended his days as he had lived, a very popular character. Having bought a couple of jiolled Galloway cows, he had no difficulty in getting Mr. C. Colling, his near neighbour, to allow him to send one of them to his bull Bolingbroke. She produced a bull-calf. It w-as a roan, in due time liad Jioriis, and showed all the other indicia of a true-bred Shorthorn. Such was' Son of Boling- broke.' Mr. C. Colling bought liim and his dam of Colonel O'Callaghan, and put his cow, old Johanna, to this son of Bolingbroke. She pro- duced a red and white bull-calf, who, like his father, took in all re- spects after the Short- horns. He was yclept ' Grandson of Boling- broke' (208). To him Mr. C. Colling put Phoenix, daughter, as we have seen, of ' Old Favourite,' and she pro- duced ' Lady,' as she had before done, by Boling- broke, the bull ' Favourite,' the father of Comet; and also (by her own son. Favourite) Young Phtenix, the mother of Comet. Lady was the dam of Washington (674), Major (397), George (276), and Mr. Wright's Sir Charles (592), and also of Countess and Laura. At Mr. C. Colling's sale, in 1810, this alloy stock sold at very high prices—Major for 200 guineas; George for 130 guineas; Lady herself, at 14 years old, for 206 guineas; Laura, her daughter, for 210 guineas; Laura's daughter. Young Laura, at 2 years old, for 101 guineas; and Countess, the other daughter of Lady, was hought of Major Unrld, of Marlon, for
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