AGRIC. 

 IIBRARY 



PREFACE. 



TN PREPARING this work free use has been made of all available 

 * writings, including among other works the HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN REGIS- 

 TER and the Holstein and Dutch-Friesian Herd Books, to which due 

 acknowledgment is made. 



Grateful acknowledgment is made of the very valuable assistance 

 of that profound dairy student and originator of the Advanced Registry 

 system, Mr. Solomon Hoxie, and to those enterprising owners of Holstein- 

 Friesian cattle upon whose advance subscription of over fourteen hundred 

 copies this work is published. 



