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Whenever you dine in, or wander through this 

 high-roofed hall and note the portraits here displayed, 

 remember simply this: each and every man helped 

 to scatter far and wide the gospel of good farming, 

 better breeding, the salvation and re-creation of the 

 soil through animal husbandry as an absolutely 

 essential phase of American agriculture. And here 

 again, as in the "inner shrine," we may say they 

 are but types. Hundreds like them have lived and 

 labored along similar lines to the permanent better- 

 ment of the states of their birth or their adoption, 

 and their portraits ought to be here. There seems 

 nothing to do in the face of this embarrassment of 

 riches but to submit typical recitals of things done 

 by a few of those who dwell in spirit within these 

 precincts, and from the sketches now to follow let 

 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN visitors judge as to what the 

 collection as a whole must represent in American 

 agricultural progress. 



I have spoken of there being portraits here of 

 men who had finished their work before my time. 

 We will, therefore, first endeavor to outline the 

 career of a pioneer who did for Illinois what CHARLES 

 E. LEONARD'S father did for the state of Missouri. 

 We will then speak of two of those who at a later 

 date were important figures in proceedings that left 



