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sin, sixth, with 414, or 4.58 percent ; Indiana, seventh, 

 with 367, or 4.06 percent, and Minnesota, eighth, with 

 347, or 3.84 percent. 



The rank of the other states was as follows : 



Regris- Percent Regis- Percent 



trations of total trations of total 



South Dakota. 9tli 336 3.72 Tennessee, 28tli 13 .13 



North Dakota. 10th 298 3.30 Maryland, 29th 11 .22 



Missouri, nth 251 2.78 New Jersey, 30th 8 .09 



Pennsylvania, 12th 211 2.33 Arizonalo.„t i na 



Michigran, 13th 180 1.99 Nevada /"'^'^ ' •"" 



Montana,14th 133 1.68 Delaware 1o„i - f^ 



Oklahoma. 15th 134 1.48 Connecticut/^''" ^ '" 



California, 16th 99 1 . 10 Massachusetts 1 , 



Virginia, 17th 91 1.01 Maine J^ 



Oklahoma. 15th 134 1.48 Connecticut/ 



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New York. 18th 79 .86 Vermont ' ,„,,^ 



Idaho, 19th 67 .74 New Hampshire /""•"• 



OreiTon, 20th 55 .61 Georgia , 



Washington, 21st 48 .53 Kentucky [35th".. 



Colorado, 22d 47 .52 North Carolina ^ 



Texas, 233 32 .38 



Canada, 24th 30 .33 



Arkansas 

 Alabama 



Utah, 25th 28 .31 New Mexico > 36th 1 .01 



Wyoming, 26th 25 .28 District of 



West Virginia. 27th 22 .24 columhia > 



The tendency for the breeding of any class of live 

 stock to become concentrated in districts where it 

 was first introduced and where its merits are most 

 widely known is indicated in this data. Illinois and 

 Iowa contributed 41.86 percent of the total registra- 

 tions recorded during the year, while more than half 

 of the Percherons recorded were raised in the first 

 three states— Illinois, Iowa and Ohio. 



The first eight states contributed 74.97 percent of 

 the total number of Percherons registered during 

 the year, while all the other states combined con- 

 tributed only 25 percent. Nevertheless, the wide dis- 

 tribution of Percherons in the United States is 

 shown by the fact that they were recorded during 

 the year from 45 states, counting the District 

 of Columbia and Canada. The number recorded 



