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National Horse Show Association of America and the following 
year a director of the Association of American Horse Shows Inc. 
Dr. Davison’s permanence of agricultural endeavor is indi- 
cated by the variety of organizations for the promotion of live- 
stock and allied interests with which he has been identified. He 
holds life memberships in the New York State Agricultural 
Society, the American Hackney Horse Society, and the American 
Guernsey Cattle Club. For twelve years he was a member of the 
executive committee of the American Shropshire Registry Asso- 
ciation, and for three consecutive years was its president. When 
the American Dairy Shorthorn Association was organized in 1912, 
Dr. Davison was elected president and served in this capacity for 
a period of two years. He was a member of the executive com- 
mittee of the National Wool Growers’ Association for eight years, 
and under Governor Levi P. Morton of New York, was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Control of the New York State Experiment 
Station at Geneva. 
This variety of positions furnished him an opportunity to form 
an acquaintanceship of national extent, which has caused him to 
drift rather naturally into the journalistic field. He has acted 
as president of the Advanced Agricultural Publishing Company 
which publishes The Field Illustrated; president of the American 
International Publishers Inc., which publishes El Campo Inter- 
national; and until February 1, 1918, president of the Agricul- 
tural Press Inc., which published the Agricultural Digest. In 
1916 he was made chairman of the Executive Committee of the 
National Agricultural Society, which backed the last named pub- 
lication. 
Dr. Davison was born with instincts that made him a lover of 
the soil and a connoisseur of its products. He graduated from 
Yale University in 1888 and received his bachelor’s degree from 
Cornell in agriculture one year later. He thereupon entered a 
course at the American Veterinary College where he received his 
