PREFACE. 



1844 twenty-two years after the first. After the year 1844, Mr. Henry StrafFord, of London, 

 succeeded to the work and published the sixth Volume in 1846. He published the succeed- 

 ing fourteen volumes at intervals of about two years, Volume twenty, the last, appearing 

 in 1873, and bringing the number of recorded English bulls up to 32,898. 



In 1846, the first three volumes of the original Coates' edition being exhausted by sales, 

 Mr. Strafford issued a carefully revised edition of them, in which various errors were cor- 

 rected. This American reprint of the first three Volumes is from Mr. StrafFord's edition, 

 and all the bulls contained in them, as well as in the fourth Volume of Coates' are herein 

 embraced. In the fourth Volume (which Mr. StrafFord did not reprint) some errors in 

 American pedigrees I have corrected by notes. The remaining pedigrees of this work all 

 follow the text of Mr. StrafFord's Volumes, except where otherwise noted. 



It will be observed that in a supplement to this work, the pedigrees or American numbers 

 of several Canadian bulls are given. These bulls occurred with Canadian numbers only, in 

 Vols. 9, 10, 11 and 12 A. H. B., and their pedigrees are given to complete the American ped- 

 igrees in those four volumes. 



Vol.5, E. H.B., has been omitted in this reprint because it is composed exclusively of cows. 



In the later volumes of the English Herd Book, will be found the short pedigrees of some 

 old bulls which were entered for the purpose of completing other pedigrees in such volumes. 

 This class of pedigrees is designated by a star. 



EXPLANATIONS. 



This work should be widely circulated among American breeders, and in order to secure 

 this large circulation by reducing its price, it has been brought into the smallest possible 

 compass. In order to accomplish this, a few abbreviations have been necessary which re- 

 quire notice ; but no pedigrees have been abbreviated, except in the following manner : 



1. After giving their leading crosses, many pedigrees have been referred to other full 

 ones of the same anterior genealogy. The inconvenience of turning to the reference pedi- 

 grees, will be less than that of handling more volumes with the pedigrees in full. 



2. Some bulls have been noted as " full brothers" to others which have full pedigrees, 

 and in such cases it will be understood that the pedigrees of both are exactly the same. 



3. When a bull is recorded thus : " (11099) Alexander, 4," the pedigree is exactly the 

 same in every particular both at number 4 in the American and number (11099) in the 

 English Herd Book. 



4. When a bull is recorded differently in the American and English Herd Books the 

 point of difference is given as the English have it, the rest of the record, it will be under- 

 stood, being the same as the American. Thus "(11499) Fusileer,1584. Calved Feb. 3, 1851." 

 This indicates that Fusileer is given at 1584 exactly the same as at (11499), with the excep- 

 tion of the date of birth, which in the American may be different or entirely omitted. 

 When the difference occurs well down in the pedigree, it is reprinted as the English have it. 



5. It will be observed that the names of breeders of the female ancestry are frequently 

 given in the English Herd Book, particularly the first four volumes. A few of these names 

 have been omitted when they did not seem to serve any valuable purpose, but all those ap- 

 pended to the most remote, and many to the later female ancestors have been reprinted. 



6. When a pedigree ends, like Bob (3180), thus : " by Northumberland (464), Styford 

 (629), Bolingbroke (86)," it will be understood that the word " by " is omitted before the 

 names of sires, by the editor of the original English work, and not through accident of the 

 American printer. 



