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water. For years ardently devoted to their cause, 

 he bought heavily of England's best, and has the 

 unique distinction of being the only American who 

 ever had the courage to send lambs of his own 

 production to the English Royal Show, where his 

 entries received official recognition in the ancient 

 home of the breed in competition with the very 

 flower of the old-world flocks. None but those who 

 have seen the extraordinary Shropshire classes at 

 an English national show can fully comprehend what 

 it means thus to beard the British lion in his lair 

 with animals of this particular type. DAVISON also 

 had a deep-rooted interest in Guernsey cattle and 

 in ponies of the larger types. He stirred New 

 York City to the point of holding a national show 

 at Madison Square Garden, modeled along our own 

 International Exposition lines, but his Herculean 

 labors in behalf of such an event unfortunately 

 were not properly seconded in the great metropolis. 

 I have said that DAVISON'S real services have 

 not yet been fully acknowledged. This, I believe, 

 to be due primarily to the fact that he has always 

 been such a prolific source of entertainment to his 

 friends and associates that they have in many cases 

 failed to get the more serious side of his nature. 

 Once let a man gain a reputation as a humorist, 



