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THE PUREBRED LIVE STOCK ASSO¬ 
CIATIONS AND THEIR METHODS• 
The Herd, Flock and Stud Book. 
If the registration of live stock is- an 
important matter, then it is almost equally 
important that the main facts of registra¬ 
tion be placed available to the breeder 
and interested public. This information 
is published from time to time in book 
form, in what are known as herd books, 
when relating to cattle and swine, in flock 
books as applied to sheep, and in stud 
books for horses. Some breeding asso¬ 
ciations also term them record books, and 
others registers. Most swine associations 
publish their volumes as records, as, for 
example, the American Duroc-Jersey Rec¬ 
ord. Many of the sheep associations also 
designate theirs as records, and a few 
of the cattle associations do likewise. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club pub¬ 
lishes a “herd register,” while the English 
Jersey Cattle Society uses the title'“herd 
book and register.” All these different 
names, however, mean the same thing. 
According to a ruling of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, each 
registry association must publish a book 
of registration at least once in two years, 
if it is to remain on the accredited list 
recognized by the Government. If this 
recognition is withdrawn then the certifi¬ 
cates of registry, etc., issued by the asso¬ 
ciation will be worthless in transacting 
business for export or import. 1 hat 
would be a serious handicap to any organ¬ 
ization registering stock, and in any way 
interested in international trade. This 
rule was adopted, in part, to compel some 
associations to show manifestations of life, 
which for years had been registering 
stock, but publishing only at very wide 
intervals of time. Some of the horse as¬ 
sociations registered for many years with¬ 
out publishing a stud book, as, for exam¬ 
ple, the American Percheron Horse 
Breeders’ Association, and the American 
Association of Breeders and Importers 
of Belgian Horses. At the present time 
the United States Government recognizes 
about 17 borsc registry organizations, 14 
cattle, 20 sheep and 16 swine. No one 
should do business with any so-called reg¬ 
istry association which is not in the list 
approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
and which will be found each year pub¬ 
lished in the annual year book of the 
Department, and which may also be ob¬ 
tained in pamphlet form from Secretary 
of Agriculture at Washington. 
The first herd book of special interest 
was devoted to Short-horn cattle, and was 
edited and published by George Coates in 
1822 at Otley, England. It had on the 
title page, “The General Short-Horned 
Herd Book: Containing the Pedigrees of 
Short-horned Bulls, Cows, etc., of the 
Improved Durham Breed, From the Ear¬ 
liest Account to the year 1822. ’ This 
volume consisted of nearly 650 pages, and 
contained the names and numbers of 710 
bulls and many cows. In some cases only 
the name and number of the animal is 
given, while in others there is beside this 
the date of birth, names of breeders and 
owner, and sire and dam. and also gran- 
dam, great-grandam, etc., and their sires. 
Prior to 1875 but few registry books 
were published. Indeed, many associa¬ 
tions for registration date their birth 
within the past quarter of a century. In 
the establishment of office records and the 
bringing out of herd, flock and stud books, 
there has been exhibited much careless¬ 
ness and ignorance. A secretary was 
placed in charge of the work who had no 
knowledge of the requirements of his po¬ 
sition and who was frequently indifferent 
as to the best way, consequently a study 
of many of the early volumes shows in¬ 
excusable error and slip-shod method. 
There has been and is to-day consider¬ 
able variety in the make-up of these 
books. The essential features are the as¬ 
sociation number, name, sex, breeder, date 
of birth, and names and numbers of sire 
and dam. There are various ways of 
placing this information on the printed 
page. Tn some cases it is in compact, 
well-arranged form, easy of reference, as 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DON’T SHE AR YOUR SHEEP 
April 6, 
in the following, reproduced from the 
American Berkshire Record, in the form 
published: 
No. 70,324—Ohio’s University Lass sow, 
farrowed, April 20, 1002; sire, Success, 
58,971 : dam, Maplewood Queen II, 61,864. 
Bred by J. M. Willis, Bloomingburg, Ohio. 
Farrowed the property of and owned by 
Ohio State University, Columbus, O. 
The printed page will contain from 14 
to 16 such registrations, arranged in two 
rows. 
Some of the registry books have a 
make-up of page divided into several 
parts by vertical rules, then beginning on 
the left is a column for numbers, next 
for name, then two lines for sire and 
dam, then a birth column, perhaps a wide 
column for color, and a final column for 
breeder. This is the style of the Ameri¬ 
can Jersey Cattle Club Herd Register, 
and it is very convenient for reference. 
The registration of 25 animals is given 
thus on a double page of this herd book. 
A few herd books contain the bracket 
pedigree carried out several generations. 
This is very convenient for reference, but 
an expensive form to print. The follow¬ 
ing is an example reproduced in part 
from a volume of the now defunct Cen¬ 
tral Poland-Oiina Record: 
9645 
Sire-- Victoria M 
11007 
Sire •• Claude 
38986 
Alice 
Dam 
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Duchess H 2d 
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No. of pigs in litter 6: 
No. raised 6; boars 3; 
sows 3. 
Bred by Jno. Ilareourt & Bro., 
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