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fillies always set before the judges in perfect bloom 

 and always the recipients of high honors at the 

 hands of discriminating committees on awards. 



A Canadian by birth, and for many years engaged 

 in merchandising in Chicago and Madison, OGILVIE 

 had all his life been a constant attendant at the 

 best Dominion and American shows and sales, and 

 in his time he has probably been familiar with more 

 of the important American collections of purebred 

 cattle, horses, sheep and swine than any man now 

 living. At Blairgowrie Farm he was able for some 

 years to gratify his ambitions and indulge his fond- 

 ness for Scotland's famous horse of heavy draft, 

 and upon closing out all his Wisconsin interests his 

 services became available in connection with the 

 management of the International, with the Horse 

 Department of which he has ever since been actively 

 identified; and to his untiring efforts and ripe expe- 

 rience is primarily due the triumphant success of 

 that section of the big show. It is but a simple 

 statement of fact to say that at the beginning his 

 department was looked upon by all, save himself, as 

 a more or less questionable side issue a feature to be 

 tolerated perhaps, but which promised little. If con- 

 founding one's contemporaries and colleagues affords 

 real satisfaction, Mr. OGILVIE must, in the light of 



