68 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
THE PROPHET OF A NATION’S HUSBANDRY 
21. The pioneer in the general field of livestock journalism was 
James Harvey Sanpers, a banker and railway contractor of 
southeastern Iowa. Mr. SANDERS was born in Ohio in the Scioto 
Valley, his parents being native Virginians. In 1868 he had 
attained sufficient financial independence to indulge an inherent 
fondness for improved livestock, and he secured at a good price 
a seven-eighths Percheron horse named Victor Hugo, in Central 
Ohio. This horse was shipped to Jowa and was the second animal 
of heavy type to be brought into the state. Mr. SANDERS followed 
him with the imported horse Dieppe, and the American-bred Dili- 
gence, both of DiLLon ownership, the former stallion bringing 
$3,000 and the latter $2,500. At the same time he introduced a 
high type of Clydesdale, the $5,000 stallion, Donald Dinnie. 
The extension of good breeding stock throughout the Missis- 
sippi Valley states suggested to Mr. SaNDERs the publication of a 
periodical to be devoted to the interests of blooded stock. Chris- 
tened the “Western Stock Journal,” and printed on a hand power 
press with its pages stitched together by the members of the 
editor’s family, it received instant approval in Iowa and the neigh- 
boring states, and was the first purely livestock periodical ever 
issued in the world. About this time Mr. SANpERs purchased the 
first purebred Shorthorn to be introduced into this country. One 
more step in the building of a local agriculture remained for him 
to take, and in the late 60’s he brought out from Ohio one of 
the early Poland-Chinas of Magie breeding. Following this he 
bought a pair of Essex which were unsuccessful, and then some 
heavy boned Cheshires. 
The panic of 1873 spread ruin in J. H. Sanpers’ path. The 
railroad in which he was interested was wrecked, and the accumu- 
lations of some twenty years entirely absorbed. Hence when 
Grorce W. Rust and Joun P. Reynotps of Chicago called Mr. 
SANDERS to the monthly “National Livestock Journal,” a con- 
