136 AMERICAN CATTLK. 



It appears that a few years previous to 1824, he commenced 

 breeding, his stock being derived principally from the herd of 

 Mr. Jonas Whittaker, a cotton manufacturer, near Otley, in 

 Yorkshire. About that time a controversy had arisen as to the 

 comparative merits of the short-horn and Hereford breeds of 

 cattle, as a grazing and fattening animal, between their respective 

 advocates, and Berry, as the champion of the short-horns, wrote 

 a pamphlet on the subject, purporting to give a history of the 

 "Improved Short-horns, derived from authentic sources; to which 

 is added an enquiry as to their value for general purposes, placed 

 in competition with the improved Herefords." This pamphlet 

 bears an imprint o f the year 1824. In the year 1830, he 

 printed a " second edition " of the same work. "With this con- 

 troversy, or the comparative merits of the two breeds, we have 

 nothing to do, as it does not appertain to our present subject. 

 His facts respecting the short-horns, and their history, so far as 

 derived from others, we let stand, and do not particularly dispute, 

 as such facts have been equally accessible to us, as to him, and 

 we are content to let them remain as authority. In this 

 pamphlet he ascribes the chief merit, as the "improver" of the 

 short-horns, to Charles Colling, who commenced breeding them 

 about the year 1780. The only other breeder he prominently 

 mentions, is Mr. "Whittaker, of whom he (Berry) purchased 

 his own cattle. 



But when, in 1834, Berry produced his "history" for Youatt, 

 it was quite another affair. It is said that, in the meantime, 

 between the "pamphlet," and the "history" for Youatt, he had 

 ceased his relations with "Whittaker, and also obtained some of 

 the "alloy" stock descended from one of Colling's experimental 

 crosses, (which will be hereafter noticed,) and in his own hands, 

 he had an object in writing them into credit, which explains this 

 second history. The account in Youatt is much unlike the 

 history in the pamphlet in other particulars, some being added 



