232 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
It continued the publication of the herd-books, and forty 
volumes have been published to date. There are now 
over 6300 members in the Association. 
The entry numbers in the American Hereford Record 
at the time of its purchase by its present owners were a 
little over 6000. These numbers were assigned to both 
male and females entries, and were very largely of ancestors 
of cattle owned in America. At the present time the 
number of entries is over 500,000. The rules do not 
require an entry to be made until the animal is nearly 
two years old, although the application for entrance must 
be filed with the office before the animal is six months old. 
The office of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders’ 
Association is in Kansas City, Missouri. 
The Hereford Herd-book of England appeared in 1846. 
The Hereford Herd-book Society of England was  or- 
ganized in 1878, since which time it has been responsible 
for the publication of the herd-book. A herd-book 
society has been organized and a registry published for 
the Hereford breeders of Australia and New Zealand. 
Herd-books have also been established for the breed in 
Argentina and Uruguay. 
265. Double-Standard Polled Herefords. — Since the 
introduction into the United States of the polled breeds 
of cattle from Scotland, the hornless feature in cattle 
has found favor with some of the breeders and admirers 
of the Hereford. The fact that Hereford feeding steers 
that have been artificially made polled or dehorned are so 
much preferred in the feed-lots to those that are horned 
has led a few breeders to undertake to establish a strain 
of registered Herefords that are naturally polled or hornless. 
This has been accomplished in the case of the Shorthorn 
breed of cattle, and is in a fair way to be realized in the 
