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publishing Volume IV that year. In 1876 Volume V, old series, 

 or Volume I, new series, of the Ayrshire Record came out, since 

 which a total of sixteen volumes (new series) has been published 

 up to 1905. In 1874 E. L. and Joseph Sturtevant started a 

 herdbook, publishing Volume I in 1875 as the North American 

 Ayrshire Register, this being for cattle tracing to importation. 

 They published four volumes, the last in 1880. The Ayrshire 

 Importers' and Breeders' Association of Canada was organized in 

 1870 and the Dominion Ayrshire Breeders' Association in 1889 ; 

 in 1898 the former merged with the latter. In 1884 the province 

 of Ontario published Volume I of the Dominion Ayrshire Herd- 

 book. In 1886 Volume I of the Montreal Ayrshire Herdbook 

 was published, and four volumes in all issued as the Canadian 

 Ayrshire Record, after which it was merged with the Dominion 

 book into the Canadian Ayrshire Record, Volume IX being pub- 

 lished in 1 899. The American Ayrshire Breeders' Association also 

 provides for an advanced registry for both bulls and cows. The 

 minimum year record for a cow five years old or over is 8500 

 pounds of milk and 375 pounds of butter. The Scotch Ayrshire 

 Cattle and Herdbook Society was founded in 1877, the first 

 volume of the herdbook appearing in 1878, since when twenty- 

 eight volumes have been published up to 1905 inclusive. 



