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the word " Norman " was dropped from the American title, in order 

 to correspond with that of the French association. The career 

 of the American Percheron Horse Breeders' Association proved 

 rather unsatisfactory to many of its members, due to too much 

 one-man power vested in its secretary. This resulted in the organ- 

 ization, in 1902, of the American Percheron Horse Breeders' 

 and Importers' Association, with headquarters later established at 

 Chicago, Illinois. In 1905 the name of this was changed to the 

 Percheron Society of America. There was also organized in 1902, 

 at Columbus, Ohio, the Percheron Registry Company. More 

 recently — in October, 1905 — another association, known as the 

 American Breeders' and Importers' Percheron Registry, was in- 

 corporated, with headquarters in Ohio. Each of these associations 

 was organized to promote the breed in America, to register animals, 

 and to publish studbooks. In 1909 the Percheron Registry Com- 

 pany combined with the Percheron Society of America, and all 

 animals registered in the four volumes of records of the former 

 were made subject to re-registration in the records of the latter. 

 Within very recent years harmony has come within Percheron 

 circles, and the Percheron Society of America is the one recog- 

 nized official organization in this country. A number of studbooks 

 have been published. The old Percheron-Norman Horse Associa- 

 tion published two volumes, the first appearing in 1877. Later, 

 with the change of name to Percheron ' Horse Association of 

 America, three more volumes were issued under the name of the 

 " Percheron Studbook of America." In 1906 this society published 

 Volume VI, since which time the volumes have been brought down 

 to XIX in 19 1 8, including 134,000 registrations to this date. 



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