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culture. There may have been others in his day 

 whose influence was farther-reaching in the matter 

 of broadening and strengthening our live-stock 

 industries more stimulating in the matter of caus- 

 ing two good animals to be grown where but one 

 or none had been previously produced. It is perhaps 

 not for me to undertake to enter up any verdict 

 upon his long and arduous labors, often in the 

 teeth of circumstances most emphatically adverse, 

 and I do not, therefore, assume to do more than 

 submit the foregoing outline of how he came to 

 engage originally in stock-breeding; how he became 

 the founder of live-stock journalism, and how, 

 incidentally, this sequence of events set me upon 

 my own little journey. 



