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to give us the benefit of unbiased outside expert 

 opinion upon our best-fitted grade and cross-bred 

 bullocks. Although in several notable instances 

 prominently identified in their own country with 

 particular breeds, in no case has any one of these 

 visitors permitted that fact to warp his Chicago judg- 

 ments. It has come to be an unwritten law that 

 these distinguished guests shall arrive in Chicago 

 on Friday or Saturday prior to the opening of the 

 show, and be delivered, presumably for safe keeping 

 away from all temptations, into the hands of 

 WILLIAM R. GOODWIN, whose portrait you will find 

 greeting you, by the way, among other familiar faces 

 in what is commonly called the reception hall of 

 the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB. Mr. GOODWIN has been 

 a "Breeder's Gazette" editor since time whereof 

 the memory of the oldest "rail-bird" runneth not to 

 the contrary. The dean of all show reporters living 

 or dead, he keeps our British judges safe and sound 

 at Oakhurst, where designing exhibitors or over- 

 zealous friends may not get at them before they 

 enter the great arena to undertake their trying task. 

 These judges to date, in the order of service 

 rendered, have been as follows: 1900, J. B. ELLIS, 

 Walsingham, England. 1901, JAMES PETER, Berkeley, 

 England. 1902, JAMES BIGGAR, Dalbeattie, Scotland. 



