ADVANCED REGISTRY. 



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Dutch-Friesian Association and Holland Associations the work was without 

 precedents. Delay also arose out of opposition to the registry on the part of 

 individual breeders growing out of a partisan struggle previously begun entirely 

 foreign to the merits of this system. In this crisis its preservation was due to 

 the combined influence of Mr. T. G. Yeomans and the late W. Brown Smith, 

 .leading breeders, who had been active in bringing about the formation of the 

 *Holstein-Friesian Association. 



The first entries to the Advanced Registry were made in January, 1886, and 

 the first volume was issued a year later. Thirty-one bulls and three hundred 

 and fifty cows were entered in this volume. The result, both in the general 

 make-up of this volume and the number of entries, was a surprise even to the 

 friends of the new system. An immediate wave of interest was created, not 

 only in this country, but in Europe. Breeders in England and Scotland wrote 

 for information in regard to it, and discussed the subject before their cattle 

 associations ; and in Germany several publications reviewed the system at 

 great length. It was evident that, whatever the fate of this system in America, 

 the fundamental ideas had taken a firm hold on the minds of breeders of 

 improved cattle. 



IOLENA FAIRMOUNT, No. 15544 H. F. H. B. 



Record: 75 Ibs. milk; 2.44 butter fat in twenty-four hours. Winner of first prize for butter, 



Ohio, 1893. 



The permanence of the new registry was not, however, yet assured. It con- 

 tinued to some extent to be an object of disapproval on grounds outside of its 

 purposes or its principles. Gradually it won its way as it was seen that it was 

 a distinct benefit to every breeder, whether he had cattle in it or not, by its ser- 

 vice in sustaining and advancing the interests of the breed as a whole. 

 Between 1886 and 1891 three other volumes were published, bringing the total 

 registration to ninety-six bulls and 1,051 cows. 



During the next four years occurred the reaction in popular favor that at 

 some time inevitably overtakes every new breed introduced into this country. 

 A typical example of this and perhaps the most pronounced, is that against 

 the Ayrshire breed, commencing about 1880, from which it has not yet recov- 

 ered. This reaction period against the Holstein-Friesians, from 1891 to 1895, 

 was a critical one for Advanced Registry. But in this crisis of the breed the 

 value of the system was more fully demonstrated. In a measure it saved the 



