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compilation of a "Norman Stud Book" as a private 

 enterprise. While personally not in favor of the 

 adoption of this name, he apparently at first deemed 

 it best to follow the lead of those who had attended 

 the February conference above mentioned. The 

 work of preparing the initial volume progressed 

 rapidly, and the book was issued from the "National 

 Live Stock Journal" press late in that year, but 

 fortunately a second edition was soon required and in 

 this revision Mr. Sanders, upon his own motion, 

 decided to adopt as the title for the volume "The 

 Percheron-Norman Stud Book."* He believed he 

 was justified in so doing. He had become convinced 

 in his own mind, and rightly enough, that the real 

 parent stock in France was the Percheron, and upon 

 his own initiative he adopted the hyphenated title. 

 This was of course a compromise between historical 

 fact abroad and American usage at home, and like 

 all compromises was not particularly satisfactory to 

 anybody concerned. Nevertheless, it stood for some 

 years. 



The Peoria Convention of 1878. — At the original 

 meeting at Chicago in 1876 there were but three 

 states represented, and these by only 14 individuals. 

 In the meantime. Volume 1 of the Percheron-Norman 

 Stud Book had appeared — the first draft horse pedi- 

 gree register ever issued on either side the Atlantic. 

 On Feb. 14, 1878, another meeting of the association 



•Originally Vol. I of the Percheron-Norman Stud Book was bound 

 in green covers, and though it had 145 pages as against 212 for the 

 revised edition — bound in the familiar brown boards — it was actually 

 little more than one-half the size of the latter book. 



