no CATTLE. 



" So far Mr. Berry, whose admirable account of the short-homs 

 our readers will duly estimate." Thus Mr. Youatt finishes Mr. 

 Berry's, and commences his part of the account of short-horns, which 

 begins on page 131, and goes to page 137. 



CORRECTIONS OF MR. BERRY, AND FURTHER HISTORICAL NOTICES OF 

 SHORT-HORNS. 



The American Editor deemed it proper to give the account of the 

 short-horns written for this work by Mr. Berry, and printed by 

 Youatt. It is to be regretted that Mr. Youatt should not have done 

 in reference to the short-horns, what he did in reference to all 

 the other races of English cattle, — written their history himself. 

 Although adopting and therefore endorsing this history, he yet, 

 in two quite important notes, pages 95 and 99, very materially 

 qualifies one position, and wholly contradicts and destroys another 

 most important one of Mr. Berry. Entirely unconnected with any 

 particular stock or short-horn interest, Mr. Youatt was eminently 

 fitted from capacity and impartiality to investigate, and then to 

 write the history of the short-homs ; and in this respect presents a 

 strong contrast to Mr. Berry, who, from interest, was a partisan, 

 and devoted to views sustaining that interest. 



In England, it is said that Mr. Berry's first history, printed in 

 1824, and reprinted in 1830, was written to further the interest of 

 Mr. Whittaker, then a breeder ; and certain it is that the only 

 breeder of that day — 1824 to 1830 — who finds a place in that his- 

 tory, is Mr. Whittaker. It is further said that Mr. Berry became 

 hostile to Mr. Whittaker ; that under this feeling of enmity, his 

 second history (the one here given) was written, in which not the 

 most distant allusion is made to Mr. Whittaker, or his stock ; and 

 that in this second history his object was to serve himself, as in the 

 first one he had . served Mr. Whittaker. Be this as it may, it is 

 given as told. 



No one would have a right to complain that the interest of Mr. 

 Whittaker was promoted by the first history ; or that of Mr. Berry 

 by the second, had truth been observed and made the means of that 

 advancement. 



In the frst of these histories, the object seems to have been solely 

 to put forth Mr. Charles Colling as the entire creato' of the short- 

 homs in the great perfection they presented in his day, and exhibit 

 at present; and Mr. Whittaker as his chief successor. In the second 

 history (the one in Youatt) the object appeal's to be the same as 

 regards Mr. C. Colling, and to show that the short-horn and Galloway 

 alloy, or cross, is superior to the true short-horn. In this second 

 one Mr. Berry's interest was to be promoted, as he had a large 

 stock, wholly of the rrallovvay alloy. 



