PREFACE. 



7. If the dam of an animal reads thus : " Minna, by Cleveland, by Favourite (252), 

 Minerva, by ," &c., it indicates that Favourite is the sire of Cleveland, and not of Minna's 

 dam ; while if a dash were placed after " Cleveland " and before " by," it would indicate 

 that Favourite was the sire of Minna's dam, and not of Cleveland. The omission of this 

 dash is also chargeable to the English editor, and not the American printer. 



8. The pedigrees of most of the breeding* cows of the English Herd Book will here be 

 found in the records of their male produce. In many of the early English pedigrees it will 

 be seen that the immediate dams and remote female ancestry possessed no names at all, 

 or if they had names known to their owners, such names were omitted in the record. 



LEWIS F. ALLEN. 

 BUFFALO, N. Y., October, 1874- 



