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twenty years and a member of the State Fair Board from its 

 incipiency. He has been a director of the American Shorthorn 

 Breeders' Association and the American Berkshire Association, 

 and was president of the latter organization from 1896 to 1902. 

 He was a member of the commission responsible for the Mis- 

 souri display at the Columbian Exposition, and secured an 

 appropriation of $20,000 for special premiums for Missouri 

 livestock at this show. A similar position at the St. Louis Fair 

 enabled him to obtain a $100,000 appropriation for Missouri 

 exhibits. During the recent war he was on the committee of 

 seven chosen by Food Administrator Hoover to determine the 

 equitable ratio between corn and hogs for the period of the 

 war, the much-talked-of 13 to 1 ratio. He was also a member 

 of the National Agricultural Advisory Committee during the 

 same period. 



Mr. Gentry's portrait was donated to the Saddle and Sir- 

 loin Club by the members of the American Berkshire Associa- 

 tion, and the letters from the hundred and forty-seven contrib- 

 utors who expressed their appreciation of Mr. Gentry's serv- 

 ices were bound in a single volume and presented to him by the 

 Club. There have been many masters of swine husbandry in 

 America during the century and a half since constructive atten- 

 tion has been given to the forming of improved breeds, but Mr. 

 Gentry, by the national nature of his service and the individual 

 independence of his methods, towers the dominant figure among 

 them. 



