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MR. MALCOLM H. GARDNER was born in the town of Sharon, Walworth 

 county, Wis., in 1853. When five years of age his father left the farm, and his 

 childhood was passed in the village of Delavan, Wis. Nine years after his 

 father returned to the farm, and it again became his home, when not away at 

 school, or teaching. Mr. Gardner gained his education at the Delavan high 

 school and Beloit college, where he was a member of the class of '78. His health 

 breaking near the close of his course, he gave up the law as a profession, and 

 returned to the farm, completing his college course at his leisure. 



In 1879 he formed a partnership with his brother, W. A. Gardner, and the 

 business is still carried on under the firm name of Gardner Brothers. Seeing 

 that the dairy industry, with hogs as accessory, was especially adapted to south- 

 ern Wisconsin, the firm turned its attention in that direction, and was among 

 the pioneers in improved dairying in the West. Their first Holstein-Friesian 

 bull was purchased of ex-Secretary T. B. Wales, in January, 1883, and cows, of 

 the same party, in the spring of ? 85. Other fine animals have been obtained 

 from other sources, and the net profits from the herd have always been highly 

 satisfactory. After losing two of their most promising cows by milk fever, 

 Gardner Brothers gave up all forcing for records, and depend on plain, every- 

 day yields for their showing, believing that this plan gives better satisfaction 

 to customers in the long run. 



Mr. Gardner has long been an earnest supporter of the Holstein-Friesian 

 breed, and has written much, mostly for Hoard's Dairyman and the Breeders' 

 Gazette. He is at present secretary and financial manager of the Darien Cream- 

 ery Company, Darien, Wis., and is a director in the Western Holstein-Friesian 

 Association. 



MR. WILLIS JUDD GILLETT of Rosendale, Wis., was born of Eastern parents, 

 July 26, 1864, and up to the age of twenty-one spent the greater part of his 

 time in school. He entered Wayland University, from which he graduated 

 with honor in the class of 1886, and in June the same year he delivered the 

 honorary oration of this his final school year. 



After taking his college course Mr. Gillett returned to his father's stock 

 farm at Rosendale, Wis., and took an active interest in the black-and-whites, of 

 which there were then in the stables of Springvale about fifty head of superior 

 animals. He has long been a great admirer of our favorite Hollander, and in 

 the line of working for the interests of the breed and breeder we find his "'foot- 

 prints in the sands of time." Though that time has been short, they are not 

 easily blotted out. 



His fine herd has already attained a position second to none in the North- 

 west as one of great uniformity and beauty, performance and rich breeding. 

 Among the members of his herd may be seen: 



Colantha, butter record, 31 Ibs. 7 oz. in seven days; milk record, 89 Ibs. 5 

 oz. in one day; 2,375 Ibs. 5 oz. in one month, and well known in both East and 

 West as among the greatest. 



Johanna 5th, another beauty, has four-year-old records as follows : Butter, 

 23 Ibs. 5 oz. in seven days; milk records, 67 Ibs. 10 oz. in one day; 2,001 Ibs. 5 

 oz. in one month; and over 14,500 Ibs. in nine months. 



Rijaneta, the veteran beauty beast of the leading Western shows, is also 

 there. Her butter record is 26 Ibs. 8| oz. in seven days; milk record, 83 Ibs. 12 

 oz. in one day; 2,013 Ibs. 6 oz. in one month. 



Nor would it be well to pass without a mention of Johanna Rue, with two- 

 year-old butter record of 15 Ibs. 7 oz. in seven days; Elgin Bell 2d, Colantha 3d, 

 Rijaneta's Jewel, Johanna oth's Clothilde, and many others of rare individual- 

 ity and remarkable pedigree. 



Mr. Gillett will be remembered as a young man of energy, honorable and 

 upright in his dealings, and, if we are to take warnings from the past and adopt 

 them as indications for the future, we can but predict, as his movements in the 

 line of breeding prompt us, the building up in the future of one of the choicest 

 herds to be found in America. 



To Mr. Gillett Wisconsin in no small degree owes her State Holstein-Frie- 

 sian Association, of which he is secretary. 



Mr. Gillett has, for some years, been a member of the Holstein-Friesian 

 Association of America, and his success and high standing as a breeder has 

 been recognized by that association in his election as a director, and his elec- 



