ADVERTISEMENT. 



A GREAT and increasing demand being still made for 

 the early volumes of the Herd Book has induced the 

 present Proprietor of that Work to undertake another 

 Edition, in order to meet a call so continual and com- 

 plimentary. From the long period since its first pub- 

 lication by the late respected Mr. George Coates, coupled 

 with the high character the Book, as a work of reference, 

 everywhere obtained, the first, second, and third volumes 

 gradually became out of print. To supply the deficiency 

 thus occasioned is, to a certain extent, the object of the 

 present re-issue ; a single volume which contains the 

 whole of the Bulls (from No. 1 to 2897) as found in 

 the three first volumes of the original edition, and 

 which consequently makes, in conjunction with volume 

 the fourth, that portion of the Herd Book complete to 

 the close of 1842. It is proposed also to collect in 

 one volume the Cows and their produce, running over 

 the same space, dividing it into two parts. This, 

 however, it will be impossible to enter upon previous 

 to the publication of the two volumes at present in 

 preparation, and which, comprising the sixth of Bulls 

 and the seventh of Cows, with their produce, carry the 

 work up to and through the year 1845. Beyond this 

 it is only necessary to add that this volume has been 

 got up strictly in accordance with the plan of the 

 author. 



