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elation. The Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada 

 was founded in 1891. 



The Holstein-Friesian Association of America was in- 

 corporated for the purpose of importing, breeding, improv- 

 ing and otherwise handling pure-bred Holstein-Friesian 

 cattle, and for gathering and publishing information in 

 regard to them. It maintains a herd-book and advanced 

 register of cattle. The entries to its herd-book have 

 reached over 152,000 bulls, and 273,000 females. The 

 policy of this association has been to maintain the purity 

 of the breed in America, to improve the type by selection 

 of the most superior animals for separate or advanced 

 registration, and to demonstrate the merits of the breed 

 through the making of great milk and butter records. It 

 has maintained a consistent advocacy of tests at the 

 homes of owners under the strictest supervision of agricul- 

 tural experiment stations. In this respect it took the 

 initiative, and has compelled other breeders' associations 

 to follow. 



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 vanced Register, 26 volumes, 1887-1915; Breeds of Dairy Cattle, 

 15th Report, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; Friesian Cattle, Twentieth Report, Ohio 

 State Board of Agriculture; Reports of New York State Dairy- 

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 Childs (1884), S. Hoxie, Editor; Records of Dairy Cows in the 

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