218 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



cow cannot be kept for the calf alone, but must yield a 

 profit in the dairy. George M. Rommel, in Bulletin No. 

 34, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, states that, of the 150,000 registered 

 Shorthorns estimated to be living in America, 5 per cent 

 are found on the range, and the other 95 per cent are in 

 the hands of the small farmer. 



249. Organizations and records. In 1822, George 

 Coates, of Yorkshire, England, published the Shorthorn 

 Herd-book, the first registry of live-stock to be issued. 

 From this developed the English Shorthorn Herd-book 

 (Coates' Herd-book), of which fifty volumes have now been 

 published. Since 1876, it has been in the hands of the 

 Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



The work of recording Shorthorns in America was 

 first taken up by Lewis F. Allen, of Black Rock, New York, 

 who published the first volume of the American Short- 

 horn Herd-book in 1846. Allen continued this publica- 

 tion, as a private enterprise until 1882, when it was pur- 

 chased by the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association. 

 In 1869, A. J. Alexander, of Woodburn, Kentucky, 

 published the first volume of a herd-book known as the 

 American Shorthorn Record. In 1878, the Ohio Short- 

 horn Breeders' Association published the first volume of 

 the Ohio Shorthorn Record, two more volumes of which 

 were published later. 



The registration of Shorthorns in the United States 

 at present is conducted entirely by the American Short- 

 horn Breeders' Association, organized in 1882. This 

 association purchased the interests of all the Shorthorn 

 herd-books in the United States, and continued the pub- 

 lication, beginning with Volume 25 of the American 



