A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



were great friends. Mr. Swenson has often reviewed 

 his chats with Mr. Morris, pausing here and there 

 to place special emphasis on some unusual bit of wis- 

 dom or practical thought of value to us. They were 

 always making plans for visiting each other's prop- 

 erties, and I was to share in the treat ; but something 

 always happened to prevent the visits. I know how 

 much Mr. Swenson regrets it, and to me it was a 

 personal loss. Mr. Morris particularly wanted to 

 see our system of calf winter maintenance in the days 

 when we maintained in pens to sell and ship any 

 month between November i and May i. From the 

 earliest day of knowing Mr. Morris until the present 

 moment I have thought of him as one of the strong 

 elements for good in the live stock industry. He was 

 an inspiration to good, clean trading. 



No American Institution of commerce has had 

 more wonders for me than the house of Swift & Co. 

 While not detracting one Iota from the splendid 

 "carry on" work of his sons, until the house stands 

 among the first commercial American achievements 

 — and that means the world — everything can be re- 

 duced to one great personality, G. F. Swift. What 

 is perhaps an equally great achievement is that of 

 the perpetuation of a great business, handed down 

 from father to son, in which we have three para- 

 mount illustrations in the packer world: the Swift 

 boys, J. Ogden Armour and Edward Morris, who 

 died and passed the work to Edward Morris, Jr. 



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