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associated with the history of the breed in America (which 
see, page 279). Itisa singular fact that while the thoughts 
and energies of so many generations were devoted to breed- 
ing and improving these cattle, the first public herd-book 
of the breed was published in 1872 by an American, Win- 
throp W. Chenery, of Belmont, Massachusetts, by 
authority of the Association of Breeders of Thoroughbred 
Holstein Cattle. It was knownasthe Holstein Herd-book. 
Three years later a herd-book was issued in the Nether- 
lands, by the Netherland Herd-book Association. It was 
a protest against naming Holland cattle from a German 
province that had no valid claim to the origin of the breed. 
In 1879, the Dutch-Friesian Cattle Breeders’ Association 
was formed in America. In the same year the Friesian 
Herd-book Association was organized in the province of 
Friesland. A few years later the North Holland Herd- 
book Association was organized and a branch was estab- 
lished in America. The present Holstein-Friesian Asso- 
ciation of America was formed in 1885 by the union of 
the Holstein and the Dutch-Friesian Associations. It 
limited importations to a great extent, and in consequence 
of this the Netherland and North Holland Associations 
became nearly moribund. Recently, the former has 
adopted a system similar to the American system of ad- 
vanced registration, and probably may become an insti- 
tution of great value to breeders in all the provinces of 
Holland, with the exception of Friesland, where the early 
association was of a similar character. The Western 
Holstein-Friesian Association was organized in 1892, and 
published its first and only herd-book in 1895, containing 
pedigrees of 2100 cattle. It was united with the Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America in 1898, and its pedigree 
records became a part of the herd-book of the older asso- 
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