Excerpt from An Alphabetical Arrangement of the Leading Shorthorn Tribes: With Notes Sir, The aim and intention of this work, (which by a permission, most graciously and promptly given, I have the high honour of dedicating to your Royal Highness.) is to provide the farmer in this his hour of undoubted, but, as we must all devoutly trust, only temporary distress, with such a line of sure guidance through the Herd Book labyrinth, as may enable him, not only to mine out material for the methodical re-casting of those old established, but few, and now somewhat worn, types of the Shorthorn breed, which long since made our island famous as a breeding station for the uses of the world; but further to contrive, against an awakened dairy market, new supplementary strains, from the hitherto comparatively unworked seams, that undoubtedly exist, of ancient Monastic accumulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.