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A third edition, published in 1775, was “ written by a country 
gentleman, and originally designed for private use.” An edition 
unnumbered was printed in 1805, for B. Crosby & Co., Stationers’ 
Court, London, and edited by a Lincolnshire Grazier, assisted by 
communications from several Yorkshire, Leicester, and Norfolk 
farmers. This edition is ascribed to the Rev. T. H. Horne, who 
came to London and was employed by the firm of Crosby & Co. It 
is a great improvement on the original edition of 1767, and quota- 
tions are frequent from the works of Mr. Culley, from the Farmers’ 
Magazine , and the Annals of Agriculture. A large sheet is given 
in this volume in tabulated form, “A synopsis of the different 
breeds of neat cattle, sheep, and swine in Great Britain ; their 
specific characters, peculiar advantages or disadvantages, and where 
usually found.” The various breeds of cattle are mentioned, but 
sheep are divided into horned sheep and sheep without horns. 
Berkshire pigs are described as reddish with brown or black spots ; 
the Chinese black, and others mostly white. 
A fourth edition appeared in 1816 : “owing to the very favour- 
able reception given to the three former impressions of this work, it 
has undergone a most careful revision.” It is illustrated with small 
woodcuts of the various breeds, evidently after Bewick. Horses for 
agricultural purposes are mentioned here, viz. Clydesdale horses, 
Cleveland bays, Suffolk punches, and the old English draught- 
horse. In 1830 the work had reached a fifth edition, which was 
dedicated by the Editor “ to the noblemen, gentlemen, and farmers 
composing the Smithfield Cattle Club, to whose exertions the public 
is so manifestly indebted for many valuable improvements in the 
live stock of the country.” A sixth edition, by a Lincolnshire 
Grazier, assisted by several eminent agriculturists, came out in 
1833, and the seventh was revised in 1839 by a Member of the 
English Agricultural Society. The eighth edition was enlarged 
and partly rewritten by William Youatt, who also dedicated it to 
the Smithfield Club. 
The eleventh and twelfth editions are very similar but much 
thicker volumes ; they appeared in 1864 and 1877, and were edited 
by Mr. Robert Scott Burn, the author of the Book of Farm Buildings, 
who acknowledges his obligations to various implement firms as well 
as to the agricultural press. 
The thirteenth and latest edition, now rewritten by Dr. Fream, 
retains the features of the two last volumes and is similarly bound, 
but is on a much larger scale. Although stated to be originally 
written by William Youatt, it contains little if anything of his 
historical research and elaborate histories, as published in his 
several works. It brings up to date the recent improvements and 
discoveries in connection with live stock, and the twelve books, in 
one volume, are divided into many chapters. The first book treats 
of cattle, their varieties, breeding and management, a long account 
being given of the wild cattle, and various writers, notably the 
Rev. John Storer, are quoted. The measurements, girth and 
length, of the various breeds at recent shows of the Birmingham 
