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associated with the history of the breed in America (which 

 see, page 279) . It is a singular fact that while the thoughts 

 and energies of so many generations were devoted to breed- 

 ing and improving these cattle, the first public herd-book 

 of the breed was published in 1872 by an American, Win- 

 throp W. Chenery, of Belmont, Massachusetts, by 

 authority of the Association of Breeders of Thoroughbred 

 Holstein Cattle. It was known as the Holstein Herd-book. 

 Three years later a herd-book was issued in the Nether- 

 lands, by the Netherland Herd-book Association. It was 

 a protest against naming Holland cattle from a German 

 province that had no valid claim to the origin of the breed. 

 In 1879, the Dutch-Friesian Cattle Breeders' Association 

 was formed in America. In the same year the Friesian 

 Herd-book Association was organized in the province of 

 Friesland. A few years later the North Holland Herd- 

 book Association was organized and a branch was estab- 

 lished in America. The present Holstein-Friesian Asso- 

 ciation of America was formed in 1885 by the union of 

 the Holstein and the Dutch-Friesian Associations. It 

 limited importations to a great extent, and in consequence 

 of this the Netherland and North Holland Associations 

 became nearly moribund. Recently, the former has 

 adopted a system similar to the American system of ad- 

 vanced registration, and probably may become an insti- 

 tution of great value to breeders in all the provinces of 

 Holland, with the exception of Friesland, where the early 

 association was of a similar character. The Western 

 Holstein-Friesian Association was organized in 1892, and 

 published its first and only herd-book in 1895, containing 

 pedigrees of 2100 cattle. It was united with the Holstein- 

 Friesian Association of America in 1898, and its pedigree 

 records became a part of the herd-book of the older asso- 



