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It continued the publication of the herd-books, and forty 

 volumes have been published to date. There are now 

 over 6300 members in the Association. 



The entry numbers in the American Hereford Record 

 at the time of its purchase by its present owners were a 

 little over 6000. These numbers were assigned to both 

 male and females entries, and were very largely of ancestors 

 of cattle owned in America. At the present time the 

 number of entries is over 500,000. The rules do not 

 require an entry to be made until the animal is nearly 

 two years old, although the application for entrance must 

 be filed with the office before the animal is six months old. 

 The office of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders' 

 Association is in Kansas City, Missouri. 



The Hereford Herd-book of England appeared in 1846. 

 The Hereford Herd-book Society of England was or- 

 ganized in 1878, since which time it has been responsible 

 for the publication of the herd-book. A herd-book 

 society has been organized and a registry published for 

 the Hereford breeders of Australia and New Zealand. 

 Herd-books have also been established for the breed in 

 Argentina and Uruguay. 



265. Double-Standard Polled Herefords. Since the 

 introduction into the United States of the polled breeds 

 of cattle from Scotland, the hornless feature in cattle 

 has found favor with some of the breeders and admirers 

 of the Hereford. The fact that Hereford feeding steers 

 that have been artificially made polled or dehorned are so 

 much preferred in the feed-lots to those that are horned 

 has led a few breeders to undertake to establish a strain 

 of registered Herefords that are naturally polled or hornless. 

 This has been accomplished in the case of the Shorthorn 

 breed of cattle, and is in a fair way to be realized in the 



