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THE RURAL N E W -YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
REGISTRY FOR PERCHERON HORSES. 
I am located in Connecticut and de¬ 
sire -information as to registry associa¬ 
tions for Percheron horses. There are 
horses in Connecticut that appear to be 
recorded in an Ohio association known 
as the American Breeders’ and Importers’ 
Percheron Registry Company. John A. 
Forney, secretary. There are also some 
horses in this community registered in 
an association called the American 
Percheron Registry Association of La 
Grange, Illinois. There are also some 
horses here that are recorded in the 
Percheron Society of America. The last 
I know to he correct, as it is the Asso¬ 
ciation that is recognized throughout the 
United States for Percheron horses, but 
I want to know what these other asso¬ 
ciations are, especially this association 
at La Grange. Can this association 
register a Percheron horse? Can they 
record a horse of Nivernais breeding as a 
Percheron? s. n. w. 
There is but one association in the 
United States that is universally recog¬ 
nized for Percheron horses. This is the 
Percheron Society of America, located 
at Chicago, Ill. It is capitalized for 
$100,000, has more than 6,000 members, 
has registered also 100.000 animals, and 
has been in existence since 1876, and 
possesses all of the original books, records 
and documents back to that time. 
The so-called Forney Association of 
Ohio has existed since 1905. They do 
not possess original books or records dat¬ 
ing back of 1904. They recorded, until 
some time in 1906 at least, top-cross or 
graded-up Percheron horses. They are 
not recognized by leading stallion hoards, 
by breeders generally, nor by foreign 
governments for purposes of export. 
The so-called American Percheron 
Registry Association of La Grange, Illi¬ 
nois, was organized in 1905 for the ex¬ 
press purpose of recording grade Perch¬ 
eron horses having three or more top- 
crosses of purebred sires. They have 
never been recognized for any other pur¬ 
pose other than for the registration of 
grade horses, have always been outlawed 
by all stallion boards, have no standing 
with breeders of Percheron horses, and, 
it is needless to add, have never been 
recognized by foreign governments for 
purposes of export. 
There is probably no objection to the 
existence of a record for grade horses, but 
there is nothing in the certificates of 
pedigree issued by the so-called La 
Grange Association which would indicate 
to an uninformed party that the pedigree 
was for a grade horse, and because of 
this fact many such horses have been 
disposed of to unsuspecting purchasers 
as purebred, whereas they are not, and 
cannot be expected to breed with the 
same degree of prepotency that purebred 
horses do. Men who are unscrupulous 
enough to sell animals recorded in the so- 
called La Grange Association to men 
who believe they are buying purebreds 
are usually cunning enough to represent 
the animals, not as purebreds. but sim¬ 
ply as registered horses, and in such 
cases the buyers have no recourse in law, 
for they are “registered” in an associa¬ 
tion which exists for the registration of 
grades. 
New York and the New England 
States and some of the Southern States, 
have been particularly injured by the 
operations of persons handling such 
animals. Horsemen throughout the Cen¬ 
tral West are sufficiently well informed 
now not to be caught by stuff of this 
kind, but the men in the East and South, 
not so well informed, are frequently 
caught in some such manner. Within 
the past 10 days I have had a letter 
from a prominent business man in one 
of the Southern States who advises me 
that a horse recorded in the so-called La 
Grange Association has been sold in his 
town for a sum in excess of $1000. 
From information given by him relative 
to the case, I am satisfied that the horse 
was picked up in some of the communi¬ 
ties where good draft horses are being 
bred, probably for $250 or $300, and 
taken south by some speculator who had 
first had him recorded in the so-called 
La Grange Association. 
Summarizing the case for the pro¬ 
tection of horsemen in the East, I may 
make this brief statement. Certificates 
of pedigree issued by the American 
Percheron Horse Breeders’ Association, 
numbered under A 7 o. 35912, signed by S. 
I). Thompson, secretary, are valid. Cer¬ 
tificates of pedigree issued by the Perch¬ 
eron Registry Company, Charles C. 
Glenn, secretary, are valid, but it is ne¬ 
cessary to have the latter pedigrees re¬ 
written or renumbered by the Percheron 
Society of America before produce from 
such animals can be recorded. This is 
because the Percheron Registry Company 
was taken over bodily by the Percheron 
Society of American in 1911. Certifi¬ 
cates of pedigree of any number issued by 
the American Percheron Horse Breeders’ 
Association or by the Percheron Society 
of America, signed by George W. Stub¬ 
blefield or the undersigned, are valid. 
WAYNE 1)1 NS MORE. 
Secretary Percheron Society 
of America, Chicago, Ill. 
“LINE-BREEDING" AND “INBREEDING.” 
On page 505, a writer makes it appear 
that breeding a fowl “to his daughter 
would be called inbreeding; to a cousin, 
line-breeding.” This is an error, and is 
exactly wrong as a comparison. Breed¬ 
ing sire to daughter is line-breeding as 
well as inbreeding. 
with reference to the 
male line. Breeding 
line-breeding unless both parents contain 
the same blood upon one side, and that 
being the blood tha.t it is desired to per¬ 
petuate. Generally the first step in line- 
It is line-breeding 
perpetuation of the 
to a cousin is not 
ing a line of descent. Sometimes several 
yards or flocks are started from the same 
sire. These yards or families are line- 
bred with reference to the blood of that 
sire. Generations later an animal can 
be taken from one of these yards and used 
upon one of the other line-bred yards. 
This will avoid close inbreeding, yet it 
may be intensive line-breeding. w. 
Michigan. 
The distinction between inbreeding and 
line-breeding, as I have several times 
said, is one that is not clearly made by 
many writers using these terms; that 
made by W. is one that I prefer, hut it 
is one that is not uniformly made by 
authorities, and is, in fact, quite contrary 
to some of the best. As evidence of this. 
I quote from “Principles of Breeding” by 
Davenport, as follows: “By line-breeding 
is meant the restriction of selection and 
mating to individuals of a single line of 
descent.” * * * “It not only combines 
animals very similar in their characters, 
hut it narrows the pedigree to fete and 
donelg related lines of descent. Line¬ 
breeding carried to its limits involves the 
breeding together of individuals closely 
related. When it involves the breeding 
together of sire and offspring, or dam and 
offspring, or of brother and sister, it be¬ 
comes inbreeding, or breeding in and in. 
It is line-breeding carried to its limits. 
Three forms of inbreeding aie possible 
A GOOD SPECIMEN OF THE AYRSHIRE BREED. 
breeding is breeding the male to daugh¬ 
ter if it is the sire’s line that is to be 
carried down the line. Of course if the 
mother’s side is the one we wish to 
perpetuate the proposition can be re¬ 
versed by mating mother with son. This 
would be line-breeding with reference to 
the mother. Any system of inbreeding 
that perpetuates the blood of a certain 
sire or dam for several generations is 
line-breeding. In line-breeding, if de¬ 
sired, the blood of sire can be made more 
and more predominant in succeeding gen¬ 
erations .while in other forms of inbreed¬ 
ing the original stock can be almost ob¬ 
literated. To illustrate: An animal 
called “Sultan” is bred to an animal 
called “Fantine.” The calf, a male, is 
mated with a heifer from a sister of Fan- 
tine, and sired by an animal named 
“Jumbo..” This cousin mating would not 
be much like line-breeding. Now if this 
second calf was mated with another cou¬ 
sin not closely related to either “Sultan” 
or “Fantine” and so on for several gen¬ 
erations, there would be very little of 
“Sultan’s” blood in the progeny. So the 
breeder would not be line-breeding to 
"Sultan,” nor would it be line-breeding 
to “Fantine,” and yet it would he close 
inbreeding. Line-breeding to “Sultan” 
means keeping the progeny stron ; in the 
blood of “Sultan,” that is, line-breeding 
with reference to the male line. Line- 
breeding to “Fantine” means keeping the 
progeny strong in the blood of “Fan- 
tine.” In line breeding the blood of one 
animal is infused more or less in every 
generation. Inbreeding does not neces¬ 
sarily do this. While line-breeding may 
include some new blood, it always carries 
a predominance of the blood of the ani¬ 
mal whose line we are perpetuating. In 
one case the farther down the line we 
go the stronger the blood of that animal; 
in the other case, even by close inbreed¬ 
ing, the less of the blood of that animal 
will we have in the progeny. It is an 
interesting problem to note the number oi 
combinations that can be made in line¬ 
breeding, and also in inbreeding without 
line-breeding. The reader will find out 
that we can breed the blood of “Old Sul¬ 
tan” into a strain in a few generations, 
or we can breed it almost out in the same 
number of generations and be inbreed¬ 
ing all the time. If the blood of “Old 
Sultan” predominates in your breeding 
stock you are line-breeding to him. other¬ 
wise, although you are inbreeding every 
mating your work may not be line-breed¬ 
ing. There are many ways of perpetuat- 
among animals, namely, breeding the sire 
upon his daughters, breeding the dam to 
her own son or sons successively, breed¬ 
ing together of brother and sister. No¬ 
body claims advantages in inbreeding. 
per se, but it is the acme of line-breeding, 
and when superior individuals are at 
hand it is the most powerful method 
known of making the most of their excel¬ 
lence. ' It is the method by which the 
highest possible percentage of the blood 
of an exceptional individual, or of a par¬ 
ticularly fortunate nick, can be preserved, 
fused into and ultimately made to char- 
'acterize an entire line of descent on both 
sides.” Space will not permit further 
quotations but enough has been given to 
show that the statement criticised, viz., 
“Breeding a fowl to his daughter would 
be called inbreeding; to a cousin, line¬ 
breeding” is correct, even though not in 
accordance with some writer’s use of 
these terms. M. it. n. 
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