THE CLYDESDALE STUD BOOK.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 3

THE C LYDESDALE STUD BOO K.

RKrintiNO to tho latest volumo of tho Clydesdale Stud Book (Vol. X.) the Xorth lh\Mi Atjriculhiri'-f says : — The committee as well as members of tho Clydesdale I lorsc Society aro to bo congratulated on tho now volume, which has just, made its appearance. It contain* 182 entries more than tho largest Slud-Rood previously issued by tho society \ i/ M the se> enth volume, which had a total of 2,956 entries, as <*>gain c t 3,138 in tho ono w Inch is now bcim* sent out In this latter will be found the pedi<jfiee r < of mares from No^. 5,893 to 6.892, and of stallions from No.s, 5,473 to 6,423. These expanded limit es show that a systematic system of iccordini; pedigree is .^ ( i 1 1 on the increase in connection u it li Clyde-- 'alo how-<. The Editing Committee point out in t he preface the ditliculty (hey still lind in receiving for entry animals with ni\rao> alrcad\ appropriated ; and it would he well if bleeders in their own in teiest,- Mould avoid tho almost endless sameness of nanie^, which is eonfusinir in ncail\ all our Herd and Stud Books, lhiplicato entries should also be avoided. The arrangement of tho book ii- the same as in prc\ious \olmnos, and doe>* j^ie.it. ei edit to the painstaking- s-eortiary, Mr Maeneil a;j;e