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and hogs for slaughter, or of our pure-bred horses for use on city 

 streets. It is, therefore, timely that breeders' associations are in- 

 teresting themselves in the development of the foreign trade. If 

 a time of diminished values is now really upon us, the opening of 

 a trade with other lands will save breeders from the disastrous 

 sacrifices to which they were forced from 1893 to 1897. 



