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records and data pertaining to Pereheron horses 

 our future growth and success is assured and I 

 prophesy that it will not be long before we will be 

 in possession of the field without serious opposition 

 or rivalry. ' ' 



A new era of prosperity and pogress began with 

 the organization of this powerful association. "With 

 the exception of some little opposition growing out 

 of the refusal of certain interests, headed by the 

 Messrs. McLaughlin, to co-operate in the work un- 

 dertaken by the new association, there was a general 

 feeling of relief that the further conduct of Perehe- 

 ron registration in America had now been settled in 

 responsible hands. The McLaughlin faction organ- 

 ized the Pereheron Eegistry Association in 1904, and 

 issued five volumes of what was called the Pereheron 

 Register, in which some 4,800 pedigrees were re- 

 corded, but the inclination of breeders and importers 

 generally had been to discourage division of energy 

 and effort, and by 1911 the general association, now 

 known as the Pereheron Society of America, so 

 dominated the field that the Messrs. McLaughlin, in 

 the interest of harmony, gave up their enterprise and 

 became affiliated with what was now really a national 

 organization, approved by the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and commanding the re- 

 spect and support of an overwhelming majority of 

 all interested in Pereheron progress in the United 

 States. 



Influence of Dealers and Importers.^The dealers 

 and importers exerted a paramount influence in de- 



