(B. A. I. Order 319) T^'Rr^it^lfel929 - United States Department off Agriculture - BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY _J^S. DEPOSITORS REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE RECOGNITIcSToF BREEDS AND PUREBRED ANIMALS United States Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary. Under authority of paragraph 1506 of the act of Congress approved September 21, 1922, entitled "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- poses" (42 Stat. 858, 923), * the following regulations are issued governing the recognition of breeds and purebred animals imported into the United States for breeding purposes. For purposes of identification these regulations are desig- nated as B. A. I. Order 319 and supersede all previous regulations on the same subject. They shall become and be effective on and after November 1, 1929. Done at Washington this 5th day of September, 1929. Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. R. W. Dunlap, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. Regulation 1. — Certification of Purebred Animals Section 1. Bureau of Animal Industry to issue certificates. — The Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized to issue certificates of pure breeding under the provisions of this order. Section 2. How to obtain certificates. — In order to obtain such certificates of pure breeding, importers shall conform to the following procedure: Paragraph 1. Application for certificates.— An application for certificates shall be made to the Bureau of Animal Industry on forms furnished or approved by the department, showing the number of animals imported, the breed and sex, the port of entry into the United States, customs entry number, the name of vessel or carrier by which shipped, and the date of arrival. This application may be signed by either the owner, the importer, or the agent, stating the name and address (in the United States) of the owner of the animal or animals. (A. H. Form 105 — "Application for certificates" will be furnished upon request.) Paragraph 2. Certificates of pedigree.— Certificates of pedigree for such animals, issued by the custodian of one of the books of record given in regulation 2 sec- tion 4, of this order, shall be furnished to the Bureau of Animal Industry. ' Paragraph 3. Affidavit of identity.— A duly acknowledged affidavit from the owner, agent, or importer that the animals so imported are the identical animals described in the certificates of pedigree must be furnished. (A. H. Form 283 "Affidavit of identity" will be furnished on request.) Paragraph 4. Ownership.— Complete transfer of ownership of imported ani- mals from the breeder to the importer must be shown, such transfers to be either officially recorded by the registry associations issuing certificates, or on official certificates of transfer of such associations. 1 Paragraph 1506 of the tariff act of 1922 is quoted on p. 6 of this order. ' 70124°— 29 Section 3. Applications will be given consideration in the order in which they are received. When the application and accompanying papers are satisfactory, certificates to that effect will be issued and forwarded to the collector of customs at the port of entry and the pedigree certificates returned to the importer or his agent. However, the certificates of pure breeding of the Bureau of Animal Industry will not be issued until the descriptions of the animals, submitted by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry at the port of entry, are received in Washington. Descriptions will be taken only at the time of entry of animals which are declared for free entry and are accompanied by proper pedigree cer- tificates. All papers for animals which do not meet the requirements of this order will be retained or returned, at the discretion of the department. Section 4. Eligibility of animals. — Where the provisions of this order have been otherwise complied with, animals will be certified as purebred which have been fully registered in good faith in one of the books of record for one of the recognized breeds given in regulation 2, section 4, of this order, except those which have been registered on inspection. Regulation 2. — Recognition of Additional Breeds Section 1. Application for recognition. — Before an additional breed to those shown in section 4 of this regulation shall be added to this order the custodian of its book of record shall submit to the department a complete set of the pub- lished volumes of such books of record to date of making application, together with all rules and forms in force on said date affecting the registration of animals in said book of record. The department will consider the case on its merits and use such information as may be available to determine whether the breed is a recognized breed and whether the animals registered in the book of record are purebred. Section 2. Official communications. — All official communications submitted under the provisions of this order should be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, except as mentioned below. Section 3. Books of record required. — Custodians of books of record for recognized breeds shall forward volumes of their books of record as soon as published, addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, in care of the United States Dispatch Agent, 2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y., U. S. * . Section 4. Recognized breeds. — The following breeds of domestic animals are recognized. Opposite will be found the names of the foreign books of record for these breeds, with the names and addresses of their custodians. Paragraph 1. Recognized breeds and books of record across the seas. CATTLE Name of breed Book of record By whom published Aberdeen Angus Alderney- Ayrshire Devon. Galloway Aberdeen Angus Herdbook __ Herdbook of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (Alderney Branch). Ayrshire Herdbook Davy's Devon Herdbook Galloway Herdbook. Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society, James R. Bar- clay, secretary, 91, Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. Royal Guernsey Agricultural Society, H. Mars- den Peake, secretary, Victoria Street, Alder- ney, Island of Alderney. Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Hugh Bone, secretary, &, Alloway Street, Ayr, Scotland. Devon Cattle Breeders' Society, A. E. Gerrard, secretary, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. Galloway Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland, James Carlyle, secretary, The Oaks, Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Lockerbie, Dumfries- shire, Scotland. CATTLE— Continued Name of breed Book of record By whom published Guernsey Do.. Hereford... Highland. Holstein-Friesian. Do Jersey Do Kerry and Dexter Do Do.... Red Poll.. Shorthorn Sussex. Welsh.. Zebu.. English Guernsey Herdbook. Herdbook of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (Guernsey Branch). Herdbook of Hereford Cattle.. Highland Herdbook Friesch Rundvee-Stamboek. Nederlandsch Rundvee-Stam- boek. Jersey Herdbook. English Herdbook and Regis- ter of Jersey Cattle. British Kerry Cattle Herd Book. Dexter Herd Book Kerry Cattle Herdbook Red Poll Herdbook Coates's Herdbook Sussex Herdbook Welsh Black Cattle Herdbook. Zebu Herdbook English Guernsey Cattle Society, Robert F. Ling, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W T . 1, England. Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Ernest de Garis, secretary, Myrtle Place, Castel, Island of Guernsev. Hereford Herd Book Society, W. G. C. Britten, secretary, 3, Offa Street, Hereford, England. Highland Cattle Society of Scotland, Angus Cam- eron, secretary, National Bank, Oban, Scot- land. Friesch Rundvee-Stamboek, Dr. E. van Wel- deren Rengers, secretary, Zuiderplein 2-4, Leeuwarden, Holland. Vereeniging het Nederlandsche Rundvee-Stam- boek, J. Louis Jarman, secretary. 's-Graven- hage, Surinamestraat, No. 24, Holland. Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural So- ciety, H. G. Shepard, secretary, 3 Mulcaster Street, St. Helier, Island of Jersey. English Jersey Cattle Society, T. W. Hammond and L. J. Craufurd, secretaries, 19 Bloomsbury Square, London, W". C. 1, England. British Kerry Cattle Society, M. R. Leather, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, England. Dexter Cattle Society, T. W r . Hammond and L. J. Craufurd, secretaries, 19 Bloomsbury Square, London, W. C. 1, England. Royal Dublin Society, Edward Bohane, director, Ball's Bridge, Dublin, Ireland. Red Poll Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland, C. H. Clarke, secretary, 24, Warring- ton Road, Ipswich, England. Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, V. H. Seymour, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, England. Sussex Herdbook Society, A. G. Holland, secre- tary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, Eng- land. Welsh Black Cattle Society, John Pritchard & Co., secretaries, Bank Chambers, Bangor, North Wales. Sociedadedo Herd Book Zebu, A. Teixeira Vianna, secretary, Uberaba, Minas Geraes, Brazil. SHEEP Cheviot Corriedale Cotswold Dorset Horn... Hampshire Down Kent or Romney Marsh. Kerry HilL._ Leicester Leicester (Border) Lincoln Cheviot Sheep Flock Book.. Corriedale Flock Book Cotswold Flock Book Dorset Horn Flock Book Hampshire Down Flock Book Kent or Romney Marsh Flock Book. Kerry Hill Flock Book Leicester Flock Book Border Leicester Flock Book. Lincoln Longwool Sheep Breeders' Flock Book. Cheviot Sheep Society, John Robson, secretary, Newton Bellingham, Northumberland, Eng- land. The Corriedale Sheep Society (Inc.), C. H. Lawrence, secretary, 154 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. Cotswold Sheep Society, James W. Taylor, secretary, Cold Aston, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders' Association, J. Dean Smith, secretary, Bank Chambers, Dor- chester, Dorset, England. Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders' Association, W. J. Wooff, secretary, 49, Canal, Salisbury, England. Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders' Asso- ciation, W. A. Ball, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, England. Kerry Hill (Wales) Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock Book Society, Morris, Marshall, and Poole, secretrjies, Newtown, Montgomery- shire, England. Leicester Sheep Breeders' Association, W. A. Brown, secretary, Driffield, East Yorkshire, England. Society of Border Leicester Sheep Breeders, Miss Rose J. E. Grant, secretary, 11, St. Ronan's Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lincoln Longwool Sheep Breeders' Association, Fred P. Taylor, secretary, 184 High Street, Lincoln, England. 4 SHEEP— Continued Name of breed Book of record By whom published Oxford Down Flock Book Oxford Down Sheep. Shropshire Flock Book Southdown Flock Book Suffolk Flock Book Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association, H. Shropshire Newlyn Gale, secretary, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford, England. Shropshire Sheep Breeders' Association and Southdown Flock Book Society, Alfred Mansell & Co., secretaries, College Hill, Shrewsbury, England. Southdown Sheep Society (Inc.), W. 0. Stride, Suffolk secretary, 63, East Street, Chichester, Sussex, England. Suffolk Sheep Society, G. P. Lempriere, secre- Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Flock Book. tary, 24, Princes Street, Ipswich, England. Wenslevdale Longwool Sheep Breeders' Asso- ciation, J. B. Walker, secretary, Boarbauk Farm, Grange-over-Sands, England. HORSES Belgian.. . Studbook des Chevaux de Trait Beiges. Clydesdale Hackney. Percheron Do Shetland Pony .. Shire Suffolk Thoroughbred Do Do. Welsh Pony and Cob Clydesdale Studbook Hackney Studbook. Studbook Percheron de France. British Percheron Horse Stud- book. Shetland Pony Studbook Shire Horse Studbook. Suffolk Studbook..... Au tralian Studbook '. Studbook Francais Registre des Chevaux de Pur Sang. 1 General Stud Book Welsh Pony and Cob Society Studbook. Societe Royale "Le Cheval de Trait Beige," Chevalier Hynderick de Theulegoet, secre- tary, 60 Rue Royal, Brussels, Belgium. Clydesdale Horse Society of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Archibald MacNeilage, secretary, 93, Hope Street, Glas- gow, C. 2, Scotland. Hackney Horse Society, Robert F. Ling, secre- tary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, Eng- land. Societe Hippique Percheronne de France, E. Lemirie, secretary, Nogent-le-Rotrou, France. British Percheron Horse Society, A. W. Hewett, secretary, Imp?ri il House, 27, Cavendish Square, London, W. 1, England. Shetland Pony Studbook Society, Robert W. Walker, secretary, 3 Golden Square, Aberdeen, Scotland. Shire Horse Society, A. G. Holland, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, England. Suffolk Horse Society, Raymond Keer, secre- tary, 6 Church Street, Woodbridge, England. Australian Jockey Club and Victoria Racing Club, Leslie G. Rouse, keeper, 6, Bligh Street, Sydney, New South Wales. Commission de Studbook Francais de Pur Sang, The Minister of Agriculture, president, Paris, France. Weatherby & Sons, 15, Cavendish Square, Lon- don, W. 1, England. Welsh Pony and Cob Society, T. A. Howson, secretary, Offices of the Royal Welsh Agri- cultural Society, 10, Egerton Street, Wrexham, North Wales. DOGS Various recognized breeds. Dobermannpinscher. . Various recognized breeds. Foxhound Greyhound Do Harrier and Beagle Livre des Origines de la So- ciete Royale Saint-Hubert. Dobermannpinscher Zucht- buch (D. P. Z.). Kennel Club Studbook Foxhound Kennel Studbook. Greyhound Studbook Societe Royale Saint-Hubert, M. Maurice Puis- sant, Chaussee Saint-Pierre, 391, Brussels, Belgium. Dobermannpinscher-Verein (D. V.), Fritz Miiller, president, Luisenstr. 162, Munchen- Gadbach, Germany. Kennel Club, H. T. W. Bowel, secretary, 84, Piccadilly, London, W. 1, England. Masters of Foxhounds Association. Maj. Cecil Pelham, secretary, Castor, Peterbro, England. National Coursing Club, Horace A. Groom, keeper of the Greyhound Studbook, 11, Hay- market, London, S. W. 1, England. Irish Coursing Club, T. A. Morris, secretary, Bridge Street, Clonmel, Ireland. Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles, J. Pawle, secretary, Havers Park, Bishop's Stortford, England. 1 Provided that no animal or animals registered in the Australian or in the French Thoroughbred stud- books shall be certified as purebred unless such animal or animals trace in all crosses to animals which are proved to the satisfaction of the department to be of the Thoroughbred breed. 2 Provided that no dog or dogs registered in the above-mentioned books shall be certified as purebred unless a 3-generation certificate of pedigree issued by one of the above-mentioned societies is submitted for each dog. Irish Greyhound Studbook.... Harrier and Beagle Studbook. DOGS— Continued Name of breed Book of record By whom published Various recognized breeds. Do.. Norsk Hundestambok Schweizeriscb.es Hunde- Stammbuch. Zuchtbuch fur deutsche Schaf- erhunde. Irish Kennel Club Stubbook.. Norsk Kennelklub, Karl Kildal, registrar, Handelsbygningen, Opgang B. V etage, Vaerels nr. 536, Drammensv. 20, Oslo, Norway. Schweizerische Kvnologischen Gesellsthaft, Carl German Shepherd Various recognized breeds. Wittwer, secretary, Waldegg, Liebefeld b. Bern, Switzerland. Verein fiir deutsche Schaferhunde, Herr Schaeller, secretary, Augsburg, 3, Germany. Irish Kennel Club. Richard G. Quirk, secretary, 23, Eden Quay, Dublin, Ireland. CATS I ong haired and short haired. Register of the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy. Governing Council of the Cat Fancy, H. O. Ed- monds, secretary, 37, Becmead Avenue, Ken- ton, Middlesex, England. HOGS Berkshire British Berkshire Herdbook. Large Black. Large White (Large Yorkshire). Middle White (Mid- dle Yorkshire). Tamworth Large Black Pig Society Herd- book. Herdbook of the National Pig Breeders' Association. British Berkshire Society, Edgar Humfrey, sec- retary, 27, Cavendish Square, London, W. 1. England. Large Black Pig Society, B. J. Roche, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. 1, England. {National Pig Breeders' Association, Alec. Hob- son, secretarv and editor, 92, Gower Street, London, W. C. 1, England. Paragraph 2. Recognized breeds and books of record in Canada. — The Canadian National Records are recognized for the following breeds: Provided, That no animal or animals registered in the Canadian National Records shall be certified by the Secretary of Agriculture as purebred unless such animal or animals trace, in all crosses, to animals which are proved to the satisfaction of the department to be of the same breed: Cattle Sheep Horses Hogs Aberdeen Angus. Cheviot. Belgian Draft. Berkshire. Ayrshire. Cotswold. Clydesdale. Chester White. Brown Swiss. Dorset Horn. Hackney. Duroc-Jersev. French Canadian. Hampshire. Percheron. Hampshire. Galloway. Leicester. Shetland. Large Black. Guernsey. Lincoln. Shire. Poland China. Hereford. Oxford Down. Standardbred. Tamworth. Jersey. Shropshire. Suffolk. Yorkshire. Red Poll. Southdown. Thoroughbred. Shorthorn. Suffolk. Welsh Pony and Cob. Paragraph 3. — The Canadian Kennel Club (Canadian National Records) is recognized for all the breeds of dogs registered in said records: Provided, That no dog or dogs registered in said records shall be certified as purebred unless a three-generation certificate of pedigree issued by said Canadian National Records is submitted for each dog. Paragraph 4- — The Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada, of which W. A. Clemons, of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, is secretary and editor, is recognized for the Holstein-Friesian breed registered in the Holstein-Friesian Herd Book of that association. Paragraph 1506 of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," approved September 21, 1922 (42 Stat. 858, 923), is as follows: 1506. Any animal imported by a citizen of the United States specially for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free, whether intended to be used by the importer himself or for sale for such purposes, except black or silver foxes: Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free unless purebred of a recognized breed and duly registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for that breed: Provided further, That the certificate of such record and pedigree of such animal shall be produced and sub- mitted to the Department of Agriculture, duly authenticated by the proper custodian of such book of record, together with an affidavit of the owner, agent, or importer that the animal imported is the identical animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe such regu- lations as may be required for determining the purity of breeding and the identity of such animal: And provided furt her, That the collectors of customs shall require a certificate from the Department of Agriculture stating that such animal is purebred of a recognized breed and duly registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for that breed. The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe such additional regulations as may be required for the strict enforcement of this provision. Horses, mules, asses, cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals straying across the boundary line into any foreign country, or driven across such boundary line by the owner for temporary pasturage purposes only, together with their offspring, shall be dutiable unless brought back to the United States within eight months, in which case they shall be free of duty under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further, That the provisions of this act shall apply to all such animals as have been imported and are in quarantine or otherwise in the custody of customs or other officers of the United State* at the date of the taking effect of this act. ». 8. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: l»2» For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. - Price 5 cents UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Nihil I! II If 3 1262 08925 8908