30 THE STUDY OF BREEDS. 



X. The American herd books. 



(1) The first volume of the American Shorthorn Herd 

 Book was published by Lewis F. Allen of Black Rock, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., in 1846. 



(2) The first volume of the American Shorthorn Record 

 was published by A. J. Alexander of Woodburn, Ky., in 1869. 



(3) The first volume of the Ohio Southern Shorthorn 

 Record was published by the Shorthorn breeders of Ohio 

 in 1878. 



(4) The American Shorthorn Association purchased the 

 interest in all these American records in 1882, and since that 

 date Shorthorn pedigrees have been published in the American 

 Shorthorn Herd Book. 



XL Canadian herd books. 



(1) The first volume of the Canadian Shorthorn Herd 

 Book was published in 1867, of the British- American Short- 

 horn Herd Book in 1881, of the Dominion Shorthorn Herd 

 Book in 1887. 



(2) The last named record has absorbed the records 

 previously published. 



XII. Distribution in the United States and 

 Canada. 



(1) Shorthorns are now found in almost every state of 

 the Union and in every province of Canada. 



(2) Ontario stands first in the number of its recorded 

 Shorthorns. 



(3) In the United States they are probably most numer- 

 ous in Illinois and Iowa in the order named, but they are also 

 quite numerous in nearly all the Central States, especially 

 Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. 



XIII. Registration in the United States and 

 Canada. 



(1) Forty-five volumes of the American Shorthorn Herd 

 Book have been issued and fifteen volumes of the Dominion 

 Shorthorn Herd Book. 



(2) In the American Shorthorn Herd Book, 367,950 

 animals have been recorded, of which 134,566 are males and 

 233-384 females. 



(3) In the Canadian Herd Books, 62,071 animals have 

 been recorded, making a total in these two countries of 430,021. 



