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in all three breeds, while for America he is perhaps the greatest 
Galloway breeder of all time. For many years he was presi- 
dent of the Clydesdale Association and devoted largely of his 
energies to its promotion. He was president of the Minnesota 
Board of Agriculture, and under his administration secured the 
presentation of the Minnesota State Fair Grounds by Ramsey 
county and a state appropriation of $150,000 to equip it. When 
the development of the program resulted in a $110,000 shortage 
he used his own personal check to carry the indebtedness until 
the legislature reimbursed him. 
Mr. CLARKE was chairman of the committee of eighteen on 
the livestock interests at the Columbian Exposition, and was the 
first man to make its wants known in Washington. His Clydes- 
dales were high in the monies, rivalling the entries of Mr. OciL- 
viE (6) and Cot. Hottoway (44). He imported large numbers 
of this breed to furnish the breeders of the state with purebred 
stallions. Many of his horses were sold on ten years’ time, and 
the ruinous years of the mid-nineties left him with much unne- 
gotiable paper. Like Mr. OciLvie, Mr. CLarxKeE believed in the 
ultimate supremacy of the Darnley stock, and while he lived to 
see its ascendancy, he failed to know of its almost complete 
dominance of the Scots’ draft world. His Shorthorns were 
superb. For a period of twenty years scarcely a herd of promi- 
nence was found in the north and central west that did not boast 
one or two animals of Meadow Lawn blood, while the names of 
Justice, Ringmaster, Dorothea 2d and Snowbird (dam of Fair 
Acres Sultan) are writ large on the Shorthorn showyard scroll. 
His Galloways completely dominated the gatherings of the late 
years of the last and the opening years of this century, and the 
Welcomes and Claras of Meadow Lawn provided a blood foun- 
dation for more than one Galloway pioneer. Much credit for 
his success in the field of breeding must be given to his herds- 
man and livestock manager, LESLIE SMITH, who contributed 
