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D. V. S. in 1890. His technical training, however, was designed 
to fit him for a livestock breeder rather than veterinary practice, 
as he had showed in his boyhood, even as early as the shows of 
1879, a tendency toward breeding mastery. His subjects at this 
time were guinea pigs, and he succeeded in developing squareness 
of quarters, and carriage of head and crest that made his pigs 
invincible at the pet stock shows. 
The extent and degree of service which Dr. Davison has ren- 
dered to American agriculture is difficult to estimate. An ardent 
sportsman, he has lent his influence at all times to the upbuilding 
and preservation of the sports of rural England, coaching, cours- 
ing and the chase. As superintendent of the sheep department 
of the International, he built up a strong organization that pos- 
sessed a character fully equivalent to the best of the mutton shows 
abroad. His example in doing permanent American breeding 
has served to guide a number of the best sheep breeders since, 
and so constructive have been their efforts that it has been 
possible for them to maintain the standards of their respective 
breeds even when sources of new blood have been denied them 
through foot-and-mouth quarantine or other handicap. 
