NOTICE. 



The large and continuous increase of the returns of entries for the 

 Herd Book has compelled the Editor to restrict the pedigrees of the Cows 

 in the present volume ; those parties, however, who may wish to complete 

 them, will find that a reference is made, as far as possible, to similar 

 pedigTces of Bulls, in the earlier pages, which are there traced to their 

 recorded foundation. Where this is not the case, a reference is given to 

 some other pedigree of the same family in a former volume. Those only, 

 therefore, appear in full of which no immediate trace can be made. By 

 this abbreviation and the use of a smaller type and thinner paper, the 

 Work is kept within a reasonable size, in compliance with the wishes of 

 many old and respected Subscribers. The value of these arrangements 

 will be fully estimated when it is found that this edition contains a far 

 greater number of pedigrees than was ever recorded in a single volume, 

 and more than twice the number given in many of the earlier ones. Only 

 animals of real utility are here recorded, many repeated Cows with only 

 Bull Calves, and others with Steer and dead Calves, have been rejected, as 

 not of sufficient interest. 



Convinced of the importance of the Herd Book, and encouraged by the 

 increasing patronage which it has received, no pains have been spared to 

 make it worthy of the support of every one interested in maintaining the 

 purity and superiority of the most valuable, and therefore most fashionable, 

 breed of Cattle in the world. 



The Editor and Proprietor avails himself of this opportunity of acknow- 

 ledging the debt of gratitude which he, as well as every breeder of Short 

 Horns, is under to his predecessors, whose names are so honourably asso- 

 ciated with the original formation of the Work. 



London, 13, Euston Square, 

 September 1861. 



