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Registration of swine. — Every breeder of pure-bred 

 swine that expects to sell registered stock for breeding 

 purposes will find it necessary to keep his animals regis- 

 tered up. It is a simple matter, but one that is often 

 neglected because of the fear of inability to make out the 

 application papers correctly. The registering of pigs is 

 often neglected, and later one finds it impossible to trace 

 animals and have them recorded. The result is that many 

 animals have been sold as pure bred, eligible to registry, 

 for which it has been impossible to trace the pedigree. 

 One, in purchasing, is therefore forced to assume that all 

 animals, especially the older animals, are not pure bred 

 unless the breeding certificates accompany them. The 

 breeder should keep all breeding animals recorded up to 

 date, and when pigs are sold the papers should be secured 

 at once and forwarded, or if they have already been 

 secured, they should be transferred at once to the new 

 owner. When one has pigs to register he should write to 

 the secretary of the association in which the sire and dam 

 are recorded, and he will send the blanks and instructions 

 required to be filled out before pigs can be registered. 

 These application blanks are filled out, and a fee per head 

 is generally charged, which is to cover the costs of regis- 

 tering the animals and maintaining the association. 



Practically every breed has an association that looks 

 after the registrations, and some breeds have several. 

 The matter of keeping up the registrations is one that the 

 breeder of pure-bred swine cannot afi^ord to neglect. 



Purpose of record associations. — The work of the swine 

 record associations is classified under two heads. The 

 first of these is the record work, and the second is the 

 exploitation work. The first of these is of the greatest 



