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efforts to advertise the work of the institution and to increase 

 its prestige. During his years at Stillwater he turned out several 

 champion and prize winning steers at the southwest fat stock 

 shows, induced numerous feeders and cattle men of the state 

 to embark in the production of purebred cattle, and was respon- 

 sible for the enactment of an effective stallion law. In 1919 

 he resigned his position to enter commercial pursuits, and was 

 appointed manager of the large Percheron holdings of George 

 Lane, Calgary, Alberta, being in direct charge of one 14,000 acre 

 farm. During the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada in 

 1919, the Prince was the guest of Mr. Lane at the Bar U 

 ranches, and became extremely interested in farm lands. While 

 on a chicken shooting party in which both the Prince and Mr. 

 Carlyle were included, the Prince determined on purchasing 

 a farm adjoining Bar U ranch and appointed Mr. Carlyle 

 agent and manager with Mr. Lane as advisor for the property. 

 On the return of the Prince to Britain, Mr. Carlyle selected 

 Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep and Thoroughbred horses 

 from the English estate of His Royal Highness with which to 

 stock the Alberta acreage. The new farm is christened the E. P. 

 ranch, based on the custom of the owner to sign himself Edward 

 Prince. 



Dean Carlyle was born in Ontario, September 22, 1870, and 

 became a citizen of the United States in 1904. He received his 

 Bachelor's degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1892, 

 and his M. S. at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1905. 

 His chief influence has been exerted for the introduction and 

 dissemination of purebred animals, and he has made a careful 

 study of feeding and development under range conditions. So 



