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are today invested in these ancestral pedi- 

 gree associations of our domestic animals 

 and barnyard fowl. 



The Am. Jersey Cattle Club owns a $200,- 

 000 fireproof building in West 23d Street, 

 New York City, in which are kept their 

 records. Today, there are on their books, 

 520,000 cows and bulls registered, worth, 

 perhaps, $150,000,000. They employ a 

 small regiment of examiners to insure that 

 the blood of their breed is not mixed or 

 polluted by outside blood. 



The American Guernsey Cattle Club has 

 its registry at Peterboro, New Hampshire. 

 The Holstein-Freisian Association has its 

 club house at Brattleboro, Vermont. It 

 has eight thousand members and its regis- 

 try covers, perhaps, $150,000,000 worth of 

 cattle. These and other clubs all act in 

 connection with Continental clubs, etc., etc., 

 but not OTp dollar is spent by our United 

 States Government or by any state or by 

 any association to see that the blood of the 

 "American Baby" is protected from the 

 imported, unhealthy mixed blood from 



