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publishes a registry for the breed in that section. Some 
years ago an importation of Herefords was made from Aus- 
tralia to California for the foundation of a herd in that 
state. The Herefords have been taken to several of the 
South American countries, mainly to Argentina and 
Uruguay. 
In recent years some Herefords have been taken to 
Cuba and Porto Rico, to some of the Central American 
states and to the Sandwich islands, where they are re- 
ported as doing extremely well. The breed is preémi- 
nently adapted to the range, with its vicissitudes of cold 
and secant vegetation. For this reason, in the United 
States they are found mainly west of the Mississippi, 
although herds are maintained in New England. It 
has already been said that the breed has made its way into 
Canada and Mexico. 
264. Organizations and records. — The first organiza- 
tion of the breeders of Hereford cattle in America was 
the Breeders’ Live-Stock Association, organized in 1878, 
at Beecher, Illinois. It undertook the publication of a 
monthly periodical called the Breeders’ Journal, which 
was devoted mainly to presenting the merits of Hereford 
cattle. At the same time it inaugurated a herd-book — 
the American Hereford Record, of which Volume I ap- 
peared in 1880, and Volume II in 1882. In 1883, it dis- 
banded, having sold its interest in this Record to the 
American Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association, which 
was organized at Chicago, in June, 1881, and was incor- 
porated under the laws of Illinois in 1883. At the second 
meeting of this Association, in November, 1881, the total 
enrollment of breeders as members numbered thirty-four. 
In 1883, it purchased the copyright and unsold copies 
of Volumes I and II of the American Hereford Record. 
