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the United States and Great Britain. He has founded an exten- 

 sive system of Farmers' Institutes and has organized district, 

 township and county fairs that give each farm boy a chance to 

 contest his skill as herdsman or shepherd against the other boys 

 of his community. 



Mr. Marshall has very naturally occupied many positions in 

 connection with livestock associations, among them a directorship 

 in the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Association, and the presi- 

 dency of the Western Canada Shorthorn Association. He has 

 been a frequent visitor to the United States, attending and 

 addressing livestock meetings and conventions over regions as 

 dispersed as Portland, Oregon, and Columbus, Ohio. One of 

 his greatest services has been to promote the settlement of western 

 Canada agriculturally, and he has drawn freely on his acquain- 

 tances throughout the eastern provinces and the States for this 

 purpose. 



