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Department of Agriculture and its most important 

 appanage, the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The writer bears cheerful testimony to the efficient 

 assistance rendered this important public service at 

 a critical juncture by Mr. WASHBURN. Not only that, 

 but when the bank addition to the Live Stock 

 Exchange was planned, provision was made in its 

 construction for a conspicuous recognition of the 

 breeder, the feeder and the ranchman. This took 

 the form of ornamenting the bank entrance with 

 panelled figures in bas-relief of the late JOHN D. 

 GILLETT founder of our once great live cattle 

 export trade, a typical western cowboy and the 

 outline of a well-bred bull. The latter is an at- 

 tempted reproduction of the head and front of the 

 Bates Duchess Shorthorn bull Duke of Underley 

 (33745), bred by EARL BECTIVE, and one of the 

 greatest sires of his day in Britain. The writer 

 supplied at Mr. WASHBURN'S request a copy of the 

 English etching by A. M. WILLIAMS from which 

 this was made, and accompanied that famous archi- 

 tect, the late DANIEL H. BURNHAM, on several visits 

 to the Northwestern Terra Gotta Works, where the 

 figures were all executed, in an effort at perfecting 

 the original modeling in the clay. Revolution in the 

 executive control of the great property was im- 



