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apart, and between each pedigree let there be 

 a space of at least two inches blank paper. 

 When pedigrees are written on both sides of the 

 paper, they will be immediately returned, as one 

 of them must, in all cases, be copied in order 

 to print them. 



7th. — If any extraordinary quality of milk- 

 ing, in accurate weights or measures, and 

 times, belong to your cows, or of dead weights 

 of carcases in slaughtered recorded animals, 

 have been made, they may be noticed ; as wo 

 claim that the Short Horns are the greatest 

 milkers, and the heaviest beef, of any neat 

 cattle whatever, and such instances carry proof 

 of these facts to the public. 



8th. — If there have been any errors or omis- 

 sions in the pedigrees of your animals already 

 recorded, by my fault, please correct them and 

 send them to me, and I will rectify them in 

 proper order in the fourth volume, by name 

 and reference, without charge. 



9th. — I will print any number of well-drawn, 

 accurate portraits of animals, for the fourth 

 volume, at five dollars each for the whole edition 

 of the book; the portraits and cuts to be fur- 

 nished by the owners. This will be done on 

 the best of fine tinted paper. I can not print 

 portraits without charge, as the expense is too 

 heavy an outlay for me, and the main benefit 

 accrues to the proprietors of such animals. 

 In this relation, I am authorized, by Mr. John 

 R. Page, a good artist, whose address is Sennett, 

 Cayuga Co., N. Y., to state that he will proceed 

 to take such portraits, whenever a sufficient 

 number can befurnished tojustifyit,and that he 

 will superintend the engraving of them by 

 competent workmen. Many portraits in the 

 second and third volumes are samples of his 

 execution. All persons who contemplategiving 

 portraits of their cattle, should lose no time in 

 obtaining them at once, that there may be am- 

 ple time to have them properly engraved. 



10th. — The price of the book to contributors 

 and subscribers, will be the same as the last — 

 five dollars a copy — payable on ordering it for 

 delivery. The work to be the same in style and 

 material as the third volume. 



11th. — If you have sold unrecorded animals 

 to any breeders whose names are not in the 

 third volume, I will thank you to send me their 

 names, that I may send them a copy of this 

 circular, as it is of advantage to you to let ani- 

 mals of your breeding, now in other hands, be 

 recorded and known to the public. 



12th. — I suggest that even in cases where 

 you record by name the £>roduce of your cows, 

 it is still better to give all such produce a dis- 

 tinct record of their own. They become thus 

 more conspicuous, as such produce merely re- 

 corded with the cow is not much looked after 

 by inquirers, — the chief advantage in the pro- 

 duce tables being to show that the cow, whose 

 progeny is so recorded, is a successful breeder. 

 This separate record will add an item to the 

 expense, but it is a trifle compared with the 



value of an animal worth from one hundred to 

 five hundred or a thousand dollars. Address 

 me at Black Rock, N. Y. 



Respectfully yours, 



LEWIS F. ALLEN, 

 Uditor American Herd Book. 



Uses of a Bead Horse. 



Firstly, we have the hair, which may weigh 

 about H lbs., and which sells for 8d. to Is. 

 Horse-hair, we know, is applied to many pur- 

 poses ; it is made into hair-cloth for seatings, 

 colored hair damasks, bags for crushing seed 

 for the use of the oil-crusher, cider-makers and 

 others. A consumption of 800 tons of horse- 

 hair a year, of home and foreign production, 

 valued at about £80,000, shows the value of 

 this one item. 



Next we have the hide, weighing — say 30 

 lbs., and worth possibly 8s., for converting, 

 when split, into the finest Cordova leather ; or, 

 in its full thickness, for covering the large 

 board-room tables of officers, &c. 



The tendons weigh probably G lbs., and are 

 converted, like other animal tissues, into fine 

 glue, or gelatine. 



The flesh will weigh about 224 lbs. boiled, 

 and may be used as meat for men, dogs, poul- 

 try, &c. 



Smile not, gentle reader, at the banquet of- 

 fered — of viands which are just now in high 

 repute on the continent. A society of econo- 

 mists, naturalists and hardy gourmands in 

 Paris, aim at the introduction' of horse-flesh in 

 the category of butcher's meat. They set the 

 example themselves, and the example is spread- 

 ing. It is argued that the horse ought to con- 

 tribute to the nourishment of the human race, 

 as well as the ox, the sheep, and the pig. 

 That it does so already in our own metropolis 

 to a great extent, in the shape of nominal 

 smoked "ox-tongues" from Russia, and chop- 

 ped so-called "beef" sausage meat in West- 

 minster, Whitechapel, and other suburban lo- 

 calities. But the penchant for roast and boiled 

 horse-flesh has found adherents even here, and 

 our esteemed contemporary, the "Journal of 

 Agriculture/' of Edinburgh, has come out 

 strong in a recent number in its favor. 



M. St. Hilaire, the champion of this new 

 addition to our food resources, reasons in this 

 fashion : 



"Horse-flesh has long been regarded as of a 

 sweetish, disagreeable taste, very tough, and 

 not to be ea en without difficulty. So many 

 dilferent facts are opposed to this prejudice, 

 that it is impossible not to recognise its slight, 

 foundation. The free or wild horse is hunted 

 as game in all parts of the world where it 

 exists — Asia, Africa and America — and for- 

 merly, and perhaps even now, in Europe. The 

 domestic horse, itself is made use of as alimen- 

 tary as well as auxiliary — in some cases alto- 



