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32. Foremost among the contingent of students of animal 

 husbandry to leave the gates of the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 and carry the message of modern livestock practice to America, 

 is William Levi Carlyle. Professor Carlyle was instructor 

 in the Ontario Agricultural College for the school year 1892-93, 

 and was so successful that he was called to the University of 

 Minnesota for the next three years as an extension lecturer in 

 Animal Husbandry. Here his acquaintance among American 

 livestock men was rapidly broadened, and in 1896 he was elected 

 to the University of Wisconsin as Professor of Animal Hus- 

 bandry, to succeed the lamented Craig (24). For seven years 

 he pursued a series of practical investigations in the feeding 

 and management of livestock, cooperating with Dean Henry 

 (20) in his studies on the food requirements of cattle and sheep 

 under midwest systems of handling. While at Madison he 

 inspired numerous young men with the vision of improved live- 

 stock, and numbers of his students went back to the farm to 

 succeed as breeders, or went to other institutions to carry on the 

 message of a better husbandry. Prominent among the latter are 

 True of California, Trowbridge of Missouri, Richards of 

 North Dakota, Morton of Colorado, Dodge of Hood Farm and 

 Schroeder of the Wisconsin Agriculturist. In 1903 he was 

 made professor of agriculture at the Colorado Agricultural 

 College, and two years later was elected dean. In 1909 due to 

 an unusual political situation he resigned his post, and the fol- 

 lowing year was made director of the experiment station and 

 dean of agriculture at the University of Idaho. Here his suc- 

 cess was instantaneous, and he made strenuous efforts to upbuild 

 the herds of cattle and sheep at the college and to introduce 

 purebred sires of both races into the state. In 1915 Dean Car- 

 lyle was made dean and director of agriculture at the Okla- 

 homa A. & M. College at Stillwater. Here he made strong 



