Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

110 CATTLE.
" So far Mr. Berry, whose admirable account of the short-horns
our readers -will duly estimate." Thus Mr. Youatt finishes Mr.
Berry's, and commences his part of the account of short-horns, which
begins on page 131, and goes to page 137.
CORRECTIONS OF MR. BERRY, AND FURTHER HISTORICAL NOTICES OF
SHORT-HORNS.
The American Editor deemed it proper to give the account of the
short-horns written for this work by Mr. Berry, and printed by
Youatt. It is to be regretted that Mr. Youatt should 'not have done
in reference to the short-horns, what he did in reference to all
the other races of English cattle,—written their history himself.
Although adopting and therefore endorsing this history, he yet,
in two quite important notes, pages 95 and 99, very materially
qualifies one position, and wholly contradicts and destroys another
most important one of Mr. Berry. Entirely unconnected, with any
particular stock or short-horn interest, Mr. Youatt was eminently
fitted from capacity and impartiality to investigate, and then to
write the history of the short-horns ; and in this respect presents a
strong contrast to Mr. Berry, who, from interest, was a partisan;
and devoted to views sustaining that interest.
In England, it is said that Mr. Berry's first history, printed in
1824, and reprinted in 1830, was written to further the interest of
Mr. Whittaker, then a breeder ; and certain it is that the only
breeder of that day—1824 to 1830—who finds a place in that history,
is Mr. Whittaker. It is further said that Mr. Berry became
hostile to Mr. Whittaker ; that under this feeling of enmity, his
second history (the one here given) was written, in which not the
most distant allusion is made to Mr. Whittaker, or his stock ; and
that in this second history his object was to serve himself, as in the
first one he had served Mr. Whittaker. Be this as it may, it is
given as told.
No one would have a right to complain that the interest of Mr.
Whittaker was promoted by the first history ; or that of Mr. Berry
by the second, had truth been observed and made the means of that
advancement.
In the first of these histories, the object seems to have been solely
to put forth Mr. Charles Colling as the entire creator of the shorthorns
in the great perfection they presented in his day, and exhibit
at present ; and Mr. Whittaker as his chief successor. In the second?
history (the one in Youatt) the object appears to be the same as
regards Mr. C. Colling, and to show that the short-hom and Galloway
alloy, or cross, is superior to the true short-horn. In this second
one Mr. Berry's interest was to be promoted, as he had a large,
stock, wholly of the Galloway alloy.