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the United States and Great Britain. He has founded an exten- 
sive system of Farmers’ Institutes and has organized district, 
township and county fairs that give each farm boy a chance to 
contest his skill as herdsman or shepherd against the other boys 
of his community. 
Mr. MARSHALL has very naturally occupied many positions in 
connection with livestock associations, among them a directorship 
in the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, and the presi- 
dency of the Western Canada Shorthorn Association. He has 
been a frequent visitor to the United States, attending and 
addressing livestock meetings and conventions over regions as 
dispersed as Portland, Oregon, and Columbus, Ohio. One of 
his greatest services has been to promote the settlement of western 
Canada agriculturally, and he has drawn freely on his acquain- 
tances throughout the eastern provinces and the States for this 
purpose. 
