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efforts to advertise the work of the institution and to increase 
its prestige. During his years at Stillwater he turned out several 
champion and prize winning steers at the southwest fat stock 
shows, induced numerous feeders and cattle men of the state 
to embark in the production of purebred cattle, and was respon- 
sible for the enactment of an effective stallion law. In 1919 
he resigned his position to enter commercial pursuits, and was 
appointed manager of the large Percheron holdings of GEORGE 
Lang, Calgary, Alberta, being in direct charge of one 14,000 acre 
farm. During the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada in 
1919, the Prince was the guest of Mr. Lane at the Bar U 
ranches, and became extremely interested in farm lands. While 
on a chicken shooting party in which both the Prince and Mr. 
CARLYLE were included, the Prince determined on purchasing 
a farm adjoining Bar U ranch and appointed Mr. CaRLYLE 
agent and manager with Mr. Lane as advisor for the property. 
On the return of the Prince to Britain, Mr. CARLYLE selected 
Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep and Thoroughbred horses 
from the English estate of His Royal Highness with which to 
stock the Alberta acreage. The new farm is christened the E. P. 
ranch, based on the custom of the owner to sign himself Epwarp 
PRINCE. 
Dean CARLYLE was born in Ontario, September 22, 1870, and 
became a citizen of the United States in 1904. He received his 
Bachelor’s degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1892, 
and his M. S. at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1905. 
His chief influence has been exerted for the introduction and 
dissemination of purebred animals, and he has made a careful 
study of feeding and development under range conditions. So 
