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INDIANA DUROC-TERSEY SWINE BREEDERS. 



The annual meeting of this Association was held at Oneida Hotel, 

 Indianapolis, at 1:00 p. m. on January 4. President C. C. Cotton in the 

 chair. 



There were fifty breeders present at this session, ana in talking with 

 the breeders none had any complaint about the past season. They all 

 seemed to think that 1905 would be a prosperous year for the breeders. 

 It was conceded by all that there would be more red sales in the United 

 States in 1905 than in the history of the breed. 



President C. C. Cotton, of Manilla, Ind., read the following address, 

 which was well received: 



• Gentlemen and Brother Swine Breeders — I have only a short address, 

 and that is a plea for our standards and a hope expressed that our As- 

 sociation will encourage the real fancier and inspire a love for our 'Creed. 



The Duroc- Jersey has a place at the top in the breeds of swine. Its 

 superior merits are universally recognized. The large droves fully ripe, 

 ranging in age and size, but bearing the sure mark of the Duroc-Jersey, 

 compel the practical farmer and feeder to this breed, and while this con- 

 tinues someone must furnish the pure-bred sire and dam. This Associa- 

 tion, with those of other States and the Nation, must help the "breeder 

 and fancier" to maintain our standard, while our breed is popular, because 

 it makes profits to the breeder. Every true fancier knows that back of 

 all this and before all this there was a breeder who saw something better 

 than the present dollar, and he had an ideal that was not marred by the 

 dollar mark. He sacrificed and patiently waited while with skill he 

 reared the animals that were to form the foundation for what is today 

 our joy and our boast — a superior breed of swine. But, gentlemen, this 

 commercial age, when dollars in banks, in bonds, stock or land is the 

 insignia for real success, the temptation is great to forsake the real path 

 of fancier for that of the money-maker. Excuse me, but I simply stir up 

 your pure minds by way of remembrance — "We must not forsake our 

 standards." A true Duroc-Jersey fancier loves the ideal of our standard 

 of perfection. Our l)reed may suffer from that class of breeders who are 

 more in love with the type of some other l)reeds than he is of ours, and 

 hence sacrifices what we hold most dear, and the result will work ulti- 

 mate loss to the breed as a whole. Our breed has shown marvelous 

 strength and constitutional vigor, and if we sacrifice this for any other 

 quality we doom our breed to ultimate extinction. 



Breed for shape, which makes the breed, and color, which marks a 

 breed. To bring these better results we must make free use of the knife 



18— Agri. 



