10 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
fraught with bovine, equine, porcine or ovine significance have 
been held. Here college students have first made contact with 
the broad sweep of breeding’s artistry. Here visiting friends 
from the two hemispheres have found the inspiration and atmos- 
phere that has led our stockmen to ultimate accomplishment. 
The functioning of the club as a unit in cohering husbandry 
and commerce initiated several clearly defined club activities. 
First and foremost it has made itself the ally of the International 
Livestock Show, being perpetual host to the latter’s guests. Sec- 
ondly, and with the aid of the International, it attracts each 
year, and in ever increasing numbers, men of education, wealth 
and high business ability to the ranks of modern agriculture, 
especially livestock breeding. Thirdly, through admitting to 
membership staff workers of the agricultural colleges and 
through offering gold medals in essay contests to agricultural 
students, it has stimulated the formation of the SADDLE AND 
SIRLOIN and BLock AND BRIDLE Cuss of the colleges, and has 
led many a noteworthy novice into the ranks of the constructive 
initiate. Fourthly, it has committed itself to the perpetual com- 
memoration of those worthies who have bequeathed to mankind 
the improved animals and the organized industries that have 
made modern production and distribution possible. Fifthly, it 
has formed the nucleus of what it some day hopes will become 
the leading livestock library of the world. 
To Rosert OciLvie (6) the club owes the idea of the gallery, 
and it is to him and H. F. Brown (105) that the indebtedness 
for the first portraits is due. Largely through the individual 
efforts of Mr. OciLvie the atmosphere and the spirit of the club 
has developed. While club officials have changed he has labored 
unremittingly and unceasingly on the gallery, striving constantly 
for improved artistic standards and for worthy recipients of the 
club’s honors. It will ever be a memorial to his taste and a 
tribute to his knowledge of the makers of the livestock industry. 
