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In case he sells a cow or heifer carrying a calf 

 at the time of sale ho must, if he owned such fe- 

 male at the time she was bred, furnish the man 

 to whom he sells her, a registry application for 

 such calf after its birth. If he bought her after 

 she was bred, it is his duty to get such application 

 and furnish it to the man to whom he sold the cow 

 after she has a calf. This application must also 

 be signed by the person owning the cow at the 

 time the calf was born. It is then sent along with 

 the customary fee to the American Shorthorn 

 Breeders Association for record and in due time 

 the pedigree in regular Association form is sent 

 the owner of the calf. 



Early Pedigrees. Volume 1 of the American 

 herd book was published in 1846 and it records 

 the pedigrees of 190 bulls and 346 females. Un- 

 like the later volumes, these earlier volumes give 

 all the known crosses of bulls either under the 

 animal's name or by reference to some other 

 animal recorded, usually in the same volume. 

 Some of the pedigrees are very short on an- 

 cestry. For instance Fanny, page 145 is given 

 as follows: "Roan; bred in England by Mr. 

 Trim of Lancashire; imported in 1904 and the 

 property of Dr. John A. Pool, Brunswick, 

 New Jersey; calved in October 1836; got by 

 Charley (1817) out of - -." This 



is one of the briefer ones and was recorded on 

 a certificate furnished by J. C. Etches, a well 



