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national conventions wherever his great experience 

 and his acknowledged talents could be invoked for 

 the uplift of those who live upon the land. It is 

 fitting that his last public service should have been 

 as Managing Director of the International Live 

 Stock Exposition, and it is peculiarly appropriate 

 that his last public address should have been to 

 the Shorthorn breeders of America, assembled in 

 annual meeting at the old Grand Pacific Hotel on 

 the night of Dec. 1, 1909. 



Senator HARRIS was, in my judgment, the ablest 

 man who has been identified with cattle-breeding 

 in the United States since my acquaintance with 

 that industry began, and had he not been called 

 from the farm to the forum, would have attained 

 a reputation as a constructive breeder second to 

 none of those who have written their names highest 

 in the Hall of Agricultural Fame. Broad-minded, 

 liberal and just, he was planning a blending of the 

 best Herd Book bloods in such fashion as could 

 scarcely fail in his hands to set a new milestone 

 in Shorthorn history. He did enough from 1882 

 to 1892 to demonstrate his power, and those who 

 aspire to great deeds in the realm of animal hus- 

 bandry will find in his life and teachings the sound- 

 est of all foundations to build upon. 



