NOTICE. 



At the request of many old Subscribers to the Herd Book, who have 

 urged that an alteration would greatly facilitate a reference to the work, it 

 will be observed that the Editor has made perhaps a more striking than 

 really important change in the printing of the present volume — the pages 

 running on in the usual form, instead of the oblong and somewhat peculiar 

 manner in which the Pedigrees of Cows have hitherto been given. 



In attempting this desideratum, the Editor has ventured on another 

 deviation from the original form of the work : viz., in giving the Pedigrees 

 of such Animals as have previously appeared a reference is made to 

 former Volumes, instead of repeating them at full length, which, it will be 

 observed, so much increased the size of the work, without imparting any 

 new or valuable information. To show how much is saved by this arrange- 

 ment, as well as a less type being used, he may add that there are 

 upwards of three hundred additional Pedigrees of Cows and their Pro- 

 duce in this Volume, although it is comprised in less space than either of 

 the two immediately preceding it. 



