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workers. Many of those faces I am pleased to recognize in this able and 

 intelligent audience. Many of the gloomy, discouraging clouds which 

 hang over a new organization— such as ignorance and mercenary motives 

 —have been dispelled by that all-conqueror, "Perseverance," and we are 

 enabled to plainly see that bright and luminous star, "Success," the goal 

 to which we all aspire, and I am pleased to note that many worthy 

 breeders have met success, which is the natural and legitimate reward 

 of merit. 



A careful resume of the reports recently issued by the various Duroc- 

 Jersey associations will convince the most doubtful of the tremendous 

 increase both in breeders and the number of registered stock during 

 the pa.st j^ear. It does not require in this address that I shall deal in 

 any statistical reports, as anyone can peruse them, within the seclusion 

 of his own library. My only object is to bring the matter to your atten- 

 tion, and as my time is limited. I may treat of it only superficially. 



Nor is it in the scope of this address, which of necessity must be 

 short, to go into minute details touching the experiences of the beginner, 

 of the many difficulties he will encounter, but I must say in this, as in 

 eveiy other business, intelligence, patience and industry will, when sea- 

 soned with judgment, bring at least partial success, with the chances 

 favoring a much greater degree. The new beginner must not for a single 

 moment lose sight of the fact that to succeed he must work intelligently 

 and persistently. It takes toil, it takes study— and he must expect and 

 be prepared for disappointment, for disappointments lurk at each and 

 every turn. Many of our most promising beginners have fallen by the 

 wayside simply because their first efforts did not attain the degree of 

 success they had hoped for, and gone into other business, where they 

 are not required to work so diligently and Avhere the chances of failure 

 are not so discouraging. 



Most Duroc swine breeders well remember— and in remembering one 

 does not have to travel so far back into "yesterdays"— when they were 

 greeted with all sorts of derision and scoffs, and often wanting but little 

 of downright scorn. Who, in the past few years, prompted by the remark- 

 able advancement and the great profits derived from the growing of the 

 red hog. liave not turned their eyes toward this fast-growing animal 

 with the query: "Why is it that so many people are becoming so 

 deeply interested in this comparatively unknown hog?" 



We are frank enough to admit vast changes have been accomplished 

 in the form and general appearance of the Duroc swine since his advent 

 as a money producer, and he now stands pre-eminent with the world- 

 famed Poland-China and Berkshire for beauty of color and symmetry 

 of form. 



The originator of this far-famed Ijeauly has lived to behold, with 

 that pride of the true American spirit, those wonderful changes until 

 he is enabled to declare, with emphasis: "I have beheld his advent 



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