62 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



to the Short-horns and their characteristics, as an ancient race, with 

 the names of a few noted early bulls owned and used by Charles 

 Colling; about eighteen pages, enumerating the weights of various 

 bullocks, cows and heifers, fed for slaughter ; a list of eleven extra- 

 ordinary milk cows owned by Jonas Whitaker, of Otley, in Yorkshire 

 (the cows derived mainly from the stocks of Robert and Charles 

 Colling), and closing with extracts from the lists of the great herd 

 sales of the two Collings in 1810 and 1818. These, with three 

 or four additional pages of miscellaneous matter, fill the history. 

 The remainder of the pamphlet is devoted to the Hereford contro- 

 versy, which is now of little consequence. 



This pamphlet was reprinted in 1830, being a copy of the other, 

 with no particular alteration beyond an additional preface. We 

 might quote at large from Berry's pamphlet, but as his historical 

 matter is nothing more than a condensation of previous history which 

 we have already related in much more extended remark, it is unnec- 

 essary here to repeat it. The weights of cattle, also, which he gives, 

 although proving their great size, ripe points, good feeding .qualities 

 and early maturity, are not extraordinary, compared with those of 

 a later period. The main drift of his account aims to establish 

 Charles Colling as the master-spirit of his day in " improving " the 

 Short-horn race of cattle, and to publish the fact of such improve- 

 ment to the world, and also distinguish Mr. Whitaker, from whose 

 herd he (Berry) had become a considerable purchaser, as Ceiling's 

 principal successor in Short-horn breeding and excellence. 



In 1834, ten years after Berry's first pamphlet (in 1824), an elab- 

 orate work entitled "CATTLE, THEIR BREEDS, MANAGEMENT AND 

 DISEASES," purporting to give a history of the various races and 

 breeds of neat cattle belonging to the British Islands, was published 

 in London. This was edited under the superintendence of "The 

 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge," of which the late 

 Lord Brougham was the head. The work was compiled by William 

 Youatt, a veterinary surgeon, of Middlesex Hospital, London, a man 

 of ability, and in his profession, of extended repute. The historical 

 matter of his book was drawn from various sources through indi- 

 vidual correspondents in different parts of the kingdom. In addition 

 to that were added several hundred pages on "Management and 

 Diseases," rendering it a work, with some exceptions, of standard 

 English authority on the subjects of which it treated particularly 

 those parts which Youatt had closely studied, and with which he was 

 personally familiar. 



