OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 317 
A DODDIE DEVOTEE FROM THE PAMPAS 
124. The second judge to come to the International Livestock 
Show from the Argentine was WILLIAM J. GRANT, to officiate in 
the breeding and fat classes of Aberdeen-Angus in 1919. So 
appreciative of his work were the Aberdeen-Angus breeders that 
they requested him immediately upon the completion of his 
duties to make the long journey again, two years later. Mr. 
GRANT was a native-born Scot, first opening his eyes to the light 
in February, 1869, in Elgin, a few miles to the south of the 
Moray Firth in Elginshire. His early education was obtained 
in the Elgin Academy, and he was articled while still a youth 
to Mr. H. M. S. Mackay, a civil engineer of his native town. 
For five years he studied rigorously as a land surveyor and civil 
engineer, and in 1890 proceeded to the Argentine as assistant 
engineer on the construction of the Buenos Aires-Great Southern 
Railway. In 1893 he received appointment as chief district engi- 
neer of the Buenos Aires and Pacific, and eight years later was 
promoted to chief construction engineer. 
In 1903 he purchased 3,750 acres of land and began opera- 
tions as farmer and stock breeder. His interests grew rapidly 
until he was master of 11,000 odd acres, and found his time so 
occupied that in 1908 he resigned his railroad position and 
devoted his entire energies to agriculture. He has developed 
two very excellent herds of cattle, one of Aberdeen-Angus and 
the other of Shorthorn breeding. His Aberdeen-Angus herd con- 
tains 85 pedigreed cows and about 300 purebreds that are unreg- 
istered. The principal families represented are the Mulben May- 
flowers, the Prides of Aberdeen, the Lady Idas, the Beauty’s of 
Methlick, the Advie Roses, the Ericas and the Blackbirds. The 
Shorthorn herd is about the same size and comprises about 80 
registered and 400 unregistered animals. Mr. Grant breeds 
very largely on a merit basis and to secure this handles repre- 
sentatives of both Scotch and English strains. The following 
