A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



Dear old "Joe" Wing!* There is a soft place in 

 my heart as I reach my word to his memory, and 

 the tear which stains the page seems sacred to an 

 association which was all beauty and joy. He sang 

 like the mocking bird that I hear all day long as I 

 drive over vast areas. Always on the topmost bough, 

 his heart flowing through his wonderful throat into 

 a never-ending song of love of the world and praise 

 to the Master. It is difficult to say anything of 

 "Joe" which has not been well said. He was a 

 dreamer of dreams, with the courage and industry 

 to make them come true, and when his time came his 

 train of mourners comprehended the whole agricul- 

 tural world, on which his impress has been deeper 

 and more permanent than that of any other writer 

 who loved the fields, herds and flocks, and punctu- 

 ated his stories with a love of mankind. 



In the earliest days of my connection with the cat- 

 tle industry I came in contact with a modest, retiring 

 personality that I soon discovered was a tower of 

 strength and concentrated ability, whose application 

 to study and work as an editor for more than thirty 

 years, and whose writings on breeds, as well as ab- 

 stract thought, have instructed, guided and inspired 

 every live stock breeder. Alvin H. Sanders has done 

 so much constructive work outside of his journalistic 



*The late Joseph E. Wing of Ohio was for many years and 

 until his death in 1915 a staff correspondent of The Breeder's 

 Gazette. 



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