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the fortunes of our most widely disseminated breed. 

 JAMES I. DAVIDSON, whose portrait you will enjoy 

 studying when you find it upon the SADDLE AND 

 SIRLOIN walls, an old friend of AMOS GRUICKSHANK, 

 had been for some time past bringing out small 

 selections of young bulls and a few heifers from 

 the Sittyton surplus. Aside from the celebrated 

 Hillhurst and Bow Park establishments, the BATES 

 cult had never attained as much headway in Canada 

 as in England and the "States." Ontario is a western 

 Scotland. Scotch names, Scotch thrift, Scotch thor- 

 oughness in tillage and Scotch insistence on practi- 

 cally useful animal types are much in evidence. 

 Toronto is its Aberdeen. There its farming and 

 stock-breeding activities center. There is held an 

 agricultural show not excelled, if equaled, in many 

 respects, elsewhere on the continent. There, as we 

 have already said, our own "International" was first 

 conceived. 



These good Ontario farmers had for a long time 

 quietly absorbed such importations as were made 

 from Aberdeenshire. Such men as JOHN DRYDEN 

 and the MILLERS were alive to the value of the 

 North Country rent-paying sort; but until Col. WIL- 

 LIAM A. HARRIS arrived upon the scene in the 

 western states, the introduction of the type had 



