218 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
cow cannot be kept for the calf alone, but must yield a 
profit in the dairy. George M. Rommel, in Bulletin No. 
34, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, states that, of the 150,000 registered 
Shorthorns estimated to be living in America, 5 per cent 
are found on the range, and the other 95 per cent are in 
the hands of the small farmer. 
249. Organizations and records. —In 1822, George 
Coates, of Yorkshire, England, published the Shorthorn 
Herd-book, the first registry of live-stock to be issued. 
From this developed the English Shorthorn Herd-book 
(Coates’ Herd-book), of which fifty volumes have now been 
published. Since 1876, it has been in the hands of the 
Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland. 
The work of recording Shorthorns in America was 
first taken up by Lewis I. Allen, of Black Rock, New York, 
who published the first volume of the American Short- 
horn Herd-book in 1846. Allen continued this publica- 
tion as a private enterprise until 1882, when it was pur- 
chased by the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. 
In 1869, A. J. Alexander, of Woodburn, Kentucky, 
published the first volume of a herd-book known as the 
American Shorthorn Record. In 1878, the Ohio Short- 
horn Breeders’ Association published the first volume of 
the Ohio Shorthorn Record, two more volumes of which 
were published later. 
The registration of Shorthorns in the United States 
at present is conducted entirely by the American Short- 
horn Breeders’ Association, organized in 1882. This 
association purchased the interests of all the Shorthorn 
herd-books in the United States, and continued the pub- 
lication, beginning with Volume 25 of the American 
