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point of view of adaptability to American purposes. 

 The Poland -China, the Duroc- Jersey, the Chester 

 White and the Hampshire are real American types, 

 and their products figure a huge total in any anal- 

 ysis of American sources of wealth. Great Britain 

 has evolved nothing in the animal kingdom more 

 nearly meeting a national need than these marvel- 

 ous swine of ours. 



While it is not our purpose to exploit in this 

 connection all the triumphs of American stock- 

 breeding as contrasted with old Britain, we should 

 not in this relation fail to refer to our harness and 

 saddle horses matchless in all the world for the 

 special purposes they were designed to serve our 

 old-time work with the Vermont Merino sheep, and 

 our triumphs in the poultry world. Enough, and more 

 than enough, has been worked out upon American 

 soil to demonstrate that when necessity or impulse 

 spurs them on, our people can be quite as clever 

 and capable in the application of scientific principles 

 along untried paths as their brethren beyond the 

 seas. 



This fact is here brought out to show that the 

 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB has at its very doors 

 a field in which recognition should be freely and 

 indeed lavishly extended. There can be no higher 



