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WHERE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION 

 MEET 



In all these ramblings up and down the country- 

 side, at home and in foreign fields as well, we have 

 merely been traversing the stepping-stones that 

 lead at last to the practical business of utilizing in 

 a big commercial way the output of myriad pastures 

 and yards in the supplying of the world's necessities. 

 To the men whose accomplishments are commem- 

 orated by the Stock Yard Inn and the SADDLE AND 

 SIRLOIN gallery to the men who annually make the 

 International Exposition we are indebted for the 

 seed that bears its never-failing harvest in the form 

 of thousands of heavily - freighted trains annually 

 unloaded in our great central markets. To the men 

 who receive and find an outlet for all this product 

 of farm and range, we are indebted for the facilities 

 without which the nation's biggest industry could 

 never have attained its present gigantic proportions. 



The library of the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB, 

 cornering, as it does, upon Dexter Park and Ex- 

 change Avenues, overlooks scenes that serve to 

 remind us that we are in the immediate vicinity of 

 the Yards a fact that recalls us from our wander- 

 ings among the producers far afield, and brings us 



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