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what has since transpired, now be enjoying solid 

 mental comfort as he views the splendid proportions 

 into which this department of the International has 

 developed. 



ROBERT OGILVIE is one of those who understand 

 perfectly the weary years of work that lie behind the 

 production of an outstanding animal of any type, no 

 matter in what class it may be presented. He is 

 one of those who glory in the accomplishments of 

 the great constructive breeders of the past. Like 

 all of the ''initiated" he walks in spirit with BAKE- 

 WELL, the GOLLINGS, old TOM BOOTH, BATES, TORR, and 

 the laird of Ury. He kens McGoMBiE too of Tillyfour 

 and the Keillor WATSONS. The GRUICKSHANKS, JONAS 

 WEBB and TOMKINS are among the heroes he has 

 canonized. 



Proper "making-up" for show he recognizes at 

 a glance, whether among Shorthorn bulls, the Here- 

 ford calves or "humlie" bullocks. The best of shep- 

 herds are keenly alive to the fact that he also has 

 an eye for a proper woolly type or a "leg o' mutton" 

 rightly rilled. Few can tell you more of Percherons, 

 Shires, Belgians, Hackneys, SufTolks, Shetlands all 

 are to him alike familiar friends; and when the 

 Clydesdale clans foregather, the sons of the shaggy, 

 misty Northland, those who were born and reared 



