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1885 Mr. SANDERS went abroad to study Percheron 

 horse-breeding in France, assisting in the founding 

 of the Stud Book for the race in its native land. 

 He also held a special commission from the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon 

 certain conditions surrounding our export trade in 

 live cattle and meats with Europe. During his 

 absence the writer hereof found himself for the first 

 time charged with the entire responsibility of edit- 

 ing and publishing the weekly issues of "The 

 Gazette." I was then 23 years of age, and my 

 reward for that summer's work was a gold watch, 

 carrying inside the case an inscription which I value 

 at the present moment quite as much as anything I 

 possess. By this time the paper's patronage was so 

 v/ell established that I could have then carried out 

 my original plan of engaging in the practice of law, 

 but in the face of the situation then existing it 

 seemed folly to relinquish a work with which I had 

 now become closely identified; and so here I am, 

 after a lapse of more than thirty years, still shoving 

 a pencil in the same old service, and with no 

 regrets. 



The work of J. H. SANDERS as author and editor 

 has long since been concluded. It is a part of the 

 history of the development of our American agri- 



