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Short-horn region and procured a large number of pedigrees. When 

 the matter in hand was all laid before the meeting, it was clear that 

 there was enough for a good sized volume. The plan of arrange- 

 ment as it appears in the first volume was adopted, and it was decided 

 to publish as speedily as possible. 



"The subscription, started in 1818, had in the next year (1819) 

 largely increased. But a subscription was not money, and Mr. Coates 

 was poor. Therefore, Robert Colling and Mr. Whittaker agreed to 

 advance the funds necessary. Robert was still a breeder, for he had 

 sold only a part of his cattle in 1818. But a second death came to 

 stop the enterprise, and in a month from this meeting and financial 

 arrangement, Mr. Robert Colling died on the yth of March, 1820. 

 Mr. Bates would have advanced the money required, but there were 

 circumstances in his then personal position, not necessary to relate, 

 which prevented. The death of Mr. Colling occasioned another 

 delay, and for two years and more nothing was done toward publica- 

 tion. In 1822, Mr. Whittaker, then a large breeder, proffered to 

 advance himself alone the money necessary to print the first volume, 

 to be repaid out of the subscriptions; but he made it a condition 

 that the book should be printed at Otley, Yorkshire, near Greenholme, 

 where he had his business and residence. Mr. Coates resided at 

 Carlton, near Pontefract, thirty to forty miles from Otley, while the 

 book could have been printed at Pontefract equally well and cheaper. 

 The necessities of the case, in point of money, overruled the con- 

 venience of Mr. Coates, and the book was put into the hands of Mr. 

 Walker, printer at Otley. It appeared in the autumn of 1822. The 

 subscribers numbered four hundred and fifty-five, and the subscrip- 

 tions were five hundred and five, at a guinea each, or $2,580. These 

 were paid on the delivery of the book, and Mr. Whittaker's advance 

 refunded. Mr. Coates and Mr. Whittaker were always fast friends 

 during life, and Mr. C. was always grateful for the assistance rendered 

 him. And it may be said that all the breeders were kind friends to 

 him as he was to them. There was always some coolness between Mr. 

 Coates and Mr. Charles Colling, from the period of Mr. Colling's 

 success over Mr. Coates in the Shows of the Agricultural Society of 

 Durham. And this would not have been mentioned here, but that 

 their relations were said to have influenced Mr. C. Colling adversely 

 in giving Mr. Coates information for his Herd Book, and Mr. Coates 

 so believed. There was some sale beyond the subscriptions, but the 

 surplus of receipts above the expenses of publication afforded no 

 remuneration for Mr. Coates's labor, time and expenses through years 



