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proper way to get it before the meeting. My idea is that we ought to 

 find some way to get np tabulated pedigrees. That is the only way I 

 know of to get all the iuformatiou concerning cattle. You can easily 

 finish your information if you have a tabulated pedigree in the first five 

 crosses. 1 would rather furnish stoi'age for volumes I might never need 

 than to work the pedigrees over and over again. I believe our short-horn 

 association ought to try in some way to give us tabulated pedigrees; they 

 do the woriv, while the others do not. 



Mr. Artemus Smith: I would like to suggest that the American Asso- 

 ciation make some rule by Avhich anything and everything we call pure 

 blood can not be recorded. We ought to have standards; we ought to 

 have some bar. There are a great many record animals that do not 

 desen'B to be on the records at all. If we could find ways of breeding 

 better cattle it would be an improvement. We only give two sires and 

 then stop, but we give several more on the female side. I never did see 

 any reason for that. I believe this other is a matter of more importance. 



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Vice-President Christian: Colonel Harris has just said we could not 

 send a committee out to examine each herd because the country is too 

 big> If M^e send the pedigree up to the American Association they must 

 record it. 



The resolution was voted on and lost. 



Mr. John E. Robbins: I think we have all been highly entertained 

 and benefited by the presence of Senator Harris, and I move that a vote 

 of thanks be extended to him. 



The motion was seconded and carried by a rising vote. 



INDIANA CATTLE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



JOHN E. BOBBINS. 



The cattle shown at the St. Louis World's Fair was made up of ex- 

 hibits from Canada and the following twenty-one states, viz.: Connecti- 

 cut. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada. 

 New York, North Carolina, Nebraska, Oregon, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New 

 Hampshire. Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, Wlnconsln. West Virginia and 

 New Jersey. The breeds shown were Short-horn, Hereford. Angus. 

 Galloway. Polle<l Durham. Red Polled Jersey. Hol«:tein. Brown Swiss. 



