26 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I^I/. 



From this table it appears that the number of purebred 

 registered animals in this country is increasing at the rate of 

 nearly half million a year. Nearly 200,000 breeders of such 

 purebred live stock are recording their animals at the present 

 time. All of these interests are united in the National Society 

 of Record Associations. The purposes of this Society are 

 stated in its constitution as follows : 



"To advance the interests of all registry associations by de- 

 vising and perfecting practical methods of preserving pedigrees 

 of purebred animals ; by united effort endeavoring to secure 

 the enactment of equitable laws relating to record associations ; 

 by securing the adoption of just rates by the railroads on 

 exhibition and breeding stocks, and also to do and transact 

 such other business as will, in the judgment of such society, 

 advance the interest of breeders of purebred stock through 

 their respective registry associations." 



Regarding the results which have been obtained by this 

 National Society of Record Associations, and the significance 

 of the Society for the breeder, the following statement by the 

 Secretary, Wayne Dinsmore,^^ is of interest : 



"In the five years that have elapsed the various associations, 

 working through the National society, have defeated some 

 hostile legislation, aided in shaping some that was favorable 

 and given wader publicity to the work which the individual 

 associations are trying to accomplish. They also took up exist- 

 ing abuses in the shipment of breeding animals in less than 

 carload lots (L. C. L. shipments), and, after the failure of 

 negotiations to secure proper concessions- from the railroads, 

 carried the case to the Interstate Commerce Commission." 



The breeder of grade animals stands in a business way prac- 

 tically by himself. The breeder of purebred animals auto- 

 matically become allied with an extensive and powerful organ- 

 ization. There can be no doubt, from a strictly buisiness point 

 of view that in this regard alone the man with the purebreds 

 enjoys an enormous advantage over the man who keeps only 

 non-purebreds, grade or scrub, animals. 



^Dinsmore, W. Loc. cit. p. 882. 



