OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 45 
Inn” told the tales in a broad sympathetic way of the beginning 
of this Club and the lives of many whose faces now adorn its 
walls. The following year his first book of sketches, “The Road 
to Dumbiedykes” appeared, and in 1917, in collaboration with 
SECRETARY Dinsmore of the Percheron Horse Society of America 
and Joun AsHTOoN, a European staff correspondent to the Gazette, 
he produced a “History of the Percheron Horse.” In 1918 his 
second volume of sketches, “The Black Swans” appeared while 
the following year his “Idle Hour Trilogy” was completed with 
“In Winter Quarters.” 
In 1906 the University of Illinois conferred on him the Doc- 
torate of Agriculture, while Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1910 gave 
him an LL.D. The wealth of Mr. SANDERS’ service to agricul- 
ture is impossible to guage, one never can discover the multitude 
of breeders who have been inspired to better things by learning 
of the romances of the cattle and horses of a bygone day, and the 
ideals of the breeders who have builded so strongly for the future 
of husbandry. His knowledge of Shorthorn pedigree, his famili- 
arity with the early facts of breed history, and his fearlessness 
in denouncing various abuses in livestock breeding practice and 
pedigree fashions, have made him a commanding figure in the 
ranks of the lovers of the red, white and roan throughout the last 
quarter century. 
