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rules, the unregistered dams will have no number, al- 

 though their names will usually appear. When the 

 animals have been registered in foreign countries, the 

 foreign registration number will always accompany the 

 American number, but will be in parenthesis. Canadian 

 numbers will be put in brackets. In addition to such 

 certificates of registration, the secretary of the association 

 publishes all such pedigrees in a book, which is called a 

 stud-book. The volumes of such books are published 

 as often as there are sufficient number of pedigrees to 

 warrant it. With our leading breeds of horses, there are 

 from ten to twenty volumes published. 



Recognized associations. 



In the stallion business there have been many fakes 

 in pedigrees or certificates of registry. This has led to 

 a closer study of the breed associations to determine 

 which are reliable in their methods of recording and which 

 have rules stringent enough that the animals registered 

 may be considered pure-bred. The larger number of 

 the stallion registration laws allow pure-bred licenses 

 to animals registered in the following associations. Ani- 

 mals recorded in other associations are considered of 

 doubtful breeding. 



American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian 

 Draft Horses, Wabash, Indiana. 



American Breeders and Importers Percheron Registry, Plain- 

 field, Ohio. 



American Breeders Association of .lacks and Jennets, Columbia, 

 Tennessee. 



American Clydesdale Association, Union Stock Yards, Cliicago, 

 Illinois. 



American Hacloiey Horse Society, New York. 



Percheron Society of America, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



