310 AT THE SIGN OF THE STOCK YARD INN 



1903, W. S. FERGUSON, Perth, Scotland. 1904, JOHN 

 Ross, Meikel Tarrel, Scotland. 1905, THOMAS B. 

 FRESHNEY, Lincolnshire, England. 1906, A. P. TUR- 

 NER, Herefordshire, England. 1907, JAMES DURNO, 

 Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 1908, GEORGE SINCLAIR, 

 Dalmeny, Scotland. 1909, WILLIAM HEAP, Man- 

 chester, England. 1910, H. M. KIRKHAM, London, 

 England. 1911, J. J. GRIDLAN, London, England. 

 1912, R. H. KEENE, Westfield, Medmenham, Eng- 

 land. 1913, J. R. CAMPBELL, Lairg, Sutherland, 

 Scotland. 



TOM CLARK, whom I have already mentioned in 

 these notes, by reason of his long and sensationally 

 successful showyard experience has steadily been 

 the International directory's choice as general 

 superintendent of cattle at the December shows. 

 He came from Herefordshire as a young man, now 

 near fifty years ago. You will scarcely credit this 

 statement when you see him. You will swear it is 

 an error when you talk with him. He wears lightly 

 indeed the years that have passed over his head 

 since he became a butcher's apprentice in Cleveland 

 on his first arrival in the States, and no trick in 

 the showman's trade is likely to escape his vigilance. 



Prof. G. F. GURTISS has sat in the International's 

 councils continuously as the special representative 



