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More Stringent Rules Adopted. At a special 

 meeting of the American association held at the 

 Sherman House in Chicago on Feb. 28, 1883, at 

 which some forty members were present, arrange- 

 ments were made for purchasing the book for the 

 sum of $5,000. At this meeting the rules of entry 

 were amended in important particulars to insure 

 future greater purity of blood. By this time the 

 breed was in such demand, and at such strong 

 prices, that there was temptation to put upon the 

 market animals whose lineage could not be traced in 

 all lines to satisfactory sources. Attention was 

 called to the fact that the English Herd Book So- 

 ciety was annually admitting to registration ani- 

 mals whose ancestors in the female line had not pre- 

 viously been on record. In order, therefore, to pro- 

 tect American buyers from short-pedigreed cattle of 

 either English or American origin it was decided, 

 first, to admit all animals whose sire and dam were 

 already on record in Volume 1 or Volume 2 of the 

 American Herd Book, or in the first thirteen vol- 

 umes of the English Herd Book, and that "the pedi- 

 grees of all animals not entitled to record in either 

 of the two volumes of the American Hereford Eec- 

 ord, or in the first thirteen volumes of the English 

 Herd Book, under the above rule, shall, before en- 

 try in future volumes of the American Hereford 

 Eecord, show sire of recorded pedigree in either the 

 English Herd Book or American Hereford Eecord; 

 and the pedigree of the dam must include name, 

 breeder, date of birth, owner, sire and dam, through 



