HERD BOOK. 187 



Iii the index to Volume I, we find the names of 

 129 owners ; in Volume II, this number has increased 

 to 206 ; in Volume III, to 322. 



The average number of animals recorded to each 



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name was 2.45 in Volume I, 4.65 in Volume II, and 

 5.06 in Volume III. 



The distribution by States in Volume III is as 

 follows : 



Alabama 1 New Jersey 13 



Connecticut 22 New York 76 



Florida 1 Ohio 11 



Illinois i Pennsylvania 8 



Indiana 1 Rhode Island 13 



Iowa 1 Vermont 20 



Kansas 1 Virginia.' 1 



Maine 7 Wisconsin 1 



Massachusetts 90 New Brunswick 2 



Michigan 6 Canada 30 



Mississippi 1 



Missouri 1 Total 322 owners. 



New Hampshire 11 



It seems the less necessary to enter upon a full 

 explanation of the attempt to furnish a herd record 

 for the breed, from the circumstance that the work is 

 wholly unsatisfactory to breeders and purchasers, who 

 have examined it, and the volumes are only awaiting 

 the action of some responsible person, or association, 

 to start a register upon sounder principles, when the 

 present work will be ignored. 



After this arraignment of the present Herd Book, 

 it seems right that we should point out a few of the" 

 errors, in order to justify ourselves in the position 

 we have taken. 



