ADVERTISEMENT. 



The present Volume of the Herd Book appears in 

 fulfilment of a promise the Editor entered into on first 

 undertaking the management of the Work. Its genuine 

 excellence and great usefulness up to that period intro- 

 duced the Editor to the Public in connection with the 

 encouraging and comparatively easy task of a revise. 

 The first, second, and third Volumes were out of print, 

 and it accordingly became necessary, from the oft-re- 

 peated demands for perfect sets, to have a re-issue. This 

 was commenced in March, 1846, with the whole of the 

 Bulls (from No. 1 to 2897) as found in the three first 

 Volumes of the Original Edition ; and is here followed, 

 and so far completed, by this Companion Volume of 

 the Cows, ranging over the same space and period. 

 Although condensed, it is trusted that in no part will 

 the Book be found mutilated or imperfect, as abbrevia- 

 tion has been confined almost entirely to the avoidance 

 of a repetition, which, from the Volumes having been 

 pubHshed in succession, must, of course, then have been 

 more or less inevitable. In all other respects the matter 

 is given as it first appeared, no alteration being at- 

 tempted that could for a moment question or endanger 

 the recognised authority of the Original. Indeed, to 

 show how completely the new Edition is framed on the 

 old, the reader has only to observe that every pedigree in 

 this volume is doubly paged, so that no mistake can 

 possibly arise in referring to it. 



