10 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



fraught with bovine, equine, porcine or ovine significance have 

 been held. Here college students have first made contact with 

 the broad sweep of breeding's artistry. Here visiting friends 

 from the two hemispheres have found the inspiration and atmos- 

 phere that has led our stockmen to ultimate accomplishment. 



The functioning of the club as a unit in cohering husbandry 

 and commerce initiated several clearly defined club activities. 

 First and foremost it has made itself the ally of the International 

 Livestock Show, being perpetual host to the latter's guests. Sec- 

 ondly, and with the aid of the International, it attracts each 

 year, and in ever increasing numbers, men of education, wealth 

 and high business ability to the ranks of modern agriculture, 

 especially livestock breeding. Thirdly, through admitting to 

 membership staff workers of the agricultural colleges and 

 through offering gold medals in essay contests to agricultural 

 students, it has stimulated the formation of the Saddle and 

 Sirloin and Block and Bridle Clubs of the colleges, and has 

 led many a noteworthy novice into the ranks of the constructive 

 initiate. Fourthly, it has committed itself to the perpetual com- 

 memoration of those worthies who have bequeathed to mankind 

 the improved animals and the organized industries that have 

 made modern production and distribution possible. Fifthly, it 

 has formed the nucleus of what it some day hopes will become 

 the leading livestock library of the world. 



To Robert Ogilvie (6) the club owes the idea of the gallery, 

 and it is to him and H. F. Brown (105) that the indebtedness 

 for the first portraits is due. Largely through the individual 

 efforts of Mr. Ogilvie the atmosphere and the spirit of the club 

 has developed. While club officials have changed he has labored 

 unremittingly and unceasingly on the gallery, striving constantly 

 for improved artistic standards and for worthy recipients of the 

 club's honors. It will ever be a memorial to his taste and a 

 tribute to his knowledge of the makers of the livestock industry. 



