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publishes a registry for the breed in that section. Some 

 years ago an importation of Herefords was made from Aus- 

 tralia to California for the foundation of a herd in that 

 state. The Herefords have been taken to several of the 

 South American countries, mainly to Argentina and 

 Uruguay. 



In recent years some Herefords have been taken to 

 Cuba and Porto Rico, to some of the Central American 

 states and to the Sandwich islands, where they are re- 

 ported as doing extremely well. The breed is preemi- 

 nently adapted to the range, with its vicissitudes of cold 

 and scant vegetation. For this reason, in the United 

 States they are found mainly west of the Mississippi, 

 although herds are maintained in New England. It 

 has already been said that the breed has made its way into 

 Canada and Mexico. 



264. Organizations and records. The first organiza- 

 tion of the breeders of Hereford cattle in America was 

 the Breeders' Live-Stock Association, organized in 1878, 

 at Beecher, Illinois. It undertook the publication of a 

 monthly periodical called the Breeders' Journal, which 

 was devoted mainly to presenting the merits of Hereford 

 cattle. At the same time it inaugurated a herd-book 

 the American Hereford Record, of which Volume I ap- 

 peared in 1880, and Volume II in 1882. In 1883, it dis- 

 banded, having sold its interest in this Record to the 

 American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, which 

 was organized at Chicago, in June, 1881, and was incor- 

 porated under the laws of Illinois in 1883. At the second 

 meeting of this Association, in November, 1881, the total 

 enrollment of breeders as members numbered thirty-four. 

 In 1883, it purchased the copyright and unsold copies 

 of Volumes I and II of the American Hereford Record. 



