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in obtaining material for the book. He was obliged to be much at 

 Otley on expense, when, if the book had been printed at Pontefract, 

 his home, or at Doncaster, near it, that would have been avoided. 

 But Mr. Coates' great point was gained, for now not only were the 

 Short-horns an established and popular breed, and had long been 

 locally, and were becoming generally, but by his exertions they had a 

 record, and he was proud of it. He now stood their herald, to record 

 their genealogies and blazon their escutcheons and their arms." 



The number of bulls recorded in the first volume of Coates' Herd 

 Book was 710, with about an equal number of cows, a very few of 

 which are noted as having gone to America. The second volume 

 appeared in 1829, seven years after the first, with 891 additional bull 

 pedigrees, and a proportionate number of cows. We also find in 

 Vol. 2, a number of new English breeders, and a few Americans, 

 added to the contributors of pedigrees in the first volume. The 

 third volume,- issued in 1836, still seven years later, and in bulk larger 

 than either of its predecessors, represented a considerable increase 

 of breeders, including a number of Americans, with an addition of 

 1,298 bull pedigrees, making the number up to 2,897, and a fair aggre- 

 gate of cows attending them. ' This third volume, we understand, on 

 the authority just quoted, was issued by a son of Mr. Coates, the 

 elder, and original editor, who had assisted his father in the compi- 

 lation of the two earlier volumes. Mr. George Coates had died 

 previous to its publication. At seven years later, in 1843, came 

 volume four, with an increase of 3,800 bulls, running their entire 

 number up to 6,700. Volume four contained the pedigrees of bulls 

 only. The next year, 1844, produced volume five, in two parts, con- 

 taining cows only, increasing the whole number of cows up to, proba- 

 bly, 8,000 or more. The three last books comprised about 1,900 

 pages, with a considerable number of American breeders and their 

 cattle pedigrees. The mass of well-bred living Short-horns then in 

 England, Scotland and Ireland, together with many others long dead, 

 belonging to breeders who had neglected to record their herds in the 

 first three volumes, came into the fourth and fifth. Those volumes 

 also contained many American pedigrees of dead as well as living 

 Short-horns, fully satisfied, as both British and American owners were, 

 of the necessity of keeping the lineage of their herds before the pub- 

 lic, and in a permanent depository. 



These five volumes concluded the Herd Book labors of the Coateses 

 father and son. The proprietorship of the work and compilation of 

 the sixth volume was thereafter transferred to Mr. Henry Strafford, 



