Mike, it's on Page 395 in the index. Instead of an 'R' they typed a 'B.' That sequencing should be automatic with the editor. I wonder if they are hand setting this the way they did publications at the turn of the LAST century.
Yes, it is the 2010 version of the SOP.
More examples:
The index says LF Ameraucanas text is on P. 198, but Araucanas are on P. 198. For someone like me, a novice who couldn't figure out any rhyme or reason for where birds were placed in the SOP, I went looking page by page to find Ameraucanas are Page 200. Why are Ameraucanas after Araucanas?
Shouldn't AM--- be listed before AR----?
The Classes are set up really confusingly. Why wouldn't you put the breeds in the class in alphabetical order, you know, the way the rest of the world organizes things like that and are expecting things to be organized. I'm just new to poultry, but I shouldn't have so much trouble finding out what page the breed standard is that I want to read.
In the middle of the Class sections, describing each breed, they have on P. 173, past and current presidents and secretaries of APA. Out of the blue, right between the Continental Class and All Other Standard Breeds Class. Where is there any logic to that!
The type of the index is so small and the space so great between the word I'm looking up and the page number, I need a ruler to find the page number is associated with it. Even then, I have to double check a few times to be sure I've lined up with the right page number.
And why aren't Ameraucanas in the American Class? The first line of their standard reads: "This breed was developed in the 1970s in the United States." (P. 200, AMERICAN STANDARD OF PERFECTION 2010) If that isn't an American breed, I don't know what is.
I think a 5th Grader could organize this book better.
With my luck, the person in charge of the SOP is reading this and I will be forever punished.