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product as the beautiful show herds came forward 

 for public praise. The grace of Lord Wilton, the sub- 

 stance of old Horace, the mellowness of The Grove 

 3d, the quarters and loin of Anxiety 4th, fused by 

 the fires of an enthusiasm and zeal fairly unparal- 

 leled in animal breeding, gave the western world the 

 most uniformly excellent type of cattle adapted to a 

 particular purpose as yet credited to American 

 breeding. 



True, we were indebted to Herefordshire for the 

 original seed, and truly we must credit something 

 of all this to Herefordshire men who became Amer- 

 icans in time to participate in this high achievement. 

 Likewise we cheerfully concede that even yet we 

 find it helpful to return now and then to the old 

 home for revivifying influences. It is meet, there- 

 fore, that the pictures of WILLIAM VANNATTA as a 

 rare type of the constructive American, and TOM 

 CLARK, as a stamp of the English -born contingent 

 that so loyally supplemented American efforts with 

 the "white faces," should hang side by side upon 

 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN walls. 



The development of the Club along broad lines 

 will naturally call for a complete exposition of the 

 origin and growth of the range business. That phase 

 of the upbuilding of our biggest American industry 



