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and the deserts that barred their progress. KOHRS 

 and MACKENZIE may well be taken as representative 

 men of the latter class. 



What men of British descent have done in Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand, what men of Spanish blood 

 have accomplished on subtropical ranges, is a part 

 of the history of live-stock progress of which all 

 may well be proud; but if we consider the original 

 discouragements and the steadily restrictive operation 

 of our national policies in respect to meat and wool 

 production in our own arid west, it must be said 

 that nowhere else have men wrested more in the 

 way of animal production, for the general good of a 

 great people, than have those who, at both personal 

 and financial peril, planted and still maintain the 

 standard of pastoral husbandry from the Rio Grande 

 to the Saskatchewan. Big men have been developed 

 in this big man's field, but the nation and the people 

 have dealt none too generously by them. 



Speaking of things stock-wise that represent 

 distinctively American work of an original character, 

 it is never to be overlooked that the mortgage- 

 lifting, home-building lard hog is one of the natural 

 products of this fat land of the Indian corn. We 

 have already said that the Berkshire has been 

 palpably improved in the middle states from the 



