OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 45 



Inn" told the tales in a broad sympathetic way of the beginning 

 of this Club and the lives of many whose faces now adorn its 

 walls. The following year his first book of sketches, "The Road 

 to Dumbiedykes" appeared, and in 1917, in collaboration with 

 Secretary Dinsmore of the Percheron Horse Society of America 

 and John Ashton, a European staff correspondent to the Gazette, 

 he produced a "History of the Percheron Horse." In 1918 his 

 second volume of sketches, "The Black Swans" appeared while 

 the following year his "Idle Hour Trilogy" was completed with 

 "In Winter Quarters." 



In 1906 the University of Illinois conferred on him the Doc- 

 torate of Agriculture, while Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1910 gave 

 him an LL. D. The wealth of Mr. Sanders' service to agricul- 

 ture is impossible to guage, one never can discover the multitude 

 of breeders who have been inspired to better things by learning 

 of the romances of the cattle and horses of a bygone day, and the 

 ideals of the breeders who have builded so strongly for the future 

 of husbandry. His knowledge of Shorthorn pedigree, his famili- 

 arity with the early facts of breed history, and his fearlessness 

 in denouncing various abuses in livestock breeding practice and 

 pedigree fashions, have made him a commanding figure in the 

 ranks of the lovers of the red, white and roan throughout the last 

 quarter century. 



