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We must acknowledge at the outset our deep 

 indebtedness to Great Britain for a majority of the 

 most valuable varieties of improved domestic animals 

 that have proved so useful and profitable in the 

 development of our live stock industries; and in this 

 same connection concede the fact that to Britain's 

 historic colonial possession, our neighbor of the north, 

 the Dominion of Canada, we are beholden for much 

 that has been helpful and inspiring to our own 

 people, both in the matter of men and materials 

 in the upbuilding of our herds, studs and flocks. To 

 Ontario especially we have turned time and again 

 when seeking to call our own farmers to the colors 

 of animal breeding as practiced so successfully for 

 so many generations by our Scotch and English 

 cousins. In that province have been implanted and 

 preserved by men of British ancestry that same 

 abiding faith in, and fondness for, good horses, sheep 

 and cattle that have made England the birthplace 

 and nursery of so much that the world enjoys in 

 the way of highly developed animal life. 



Our Canadian brethren have for a great many 

 years maintained at the Ontario capital one of the 

 best managed agricultural exhibitions on either con- 

 tinent. It is admirably conducted, is patronized and 

 stoutly supported by the best men in Dominion and 



