Missouri Duroc-Jersey Breeders' Association. 305 



In the meetings of the state organizations breed character- 

 istics should not be discussed. The object of this organization 

 should be to show up the advantages of the breeding and rais- 

 ing of better swine. All breeds will be in turn benefited. 



Friendly relations should be sustained with the different 

 fairs and stock shows. State swine organizations can materially 

 assist the different fairs and shows in the making of the premium 

 lists, selection of judges, sanitary conditions, including regula- 

 tions for shipping, etc. Now that so much is being said and done 

 in relation to the vaccination of swine as a preventive for hog 

 cholera, state organizations can be of much benefit to the proper 

 officers who have charge of this matter. One thing in this con- 

 nection which should receive the consideration of the officials is 

 the sanitary conditions on the individual farms. State swine 

 organizations can do much towards keeping down swine diseases 

 by their members pledging themselves to not only keep their own 

 premises in the right condition, but toward assisting state officials 

 in having others keep their farms in good sanitary condition. 

 I don't mean by this to be squealing on your neighbor — far from 

 it — but you can assist by keeping the proper officials informed 

 as to conditions in your neighborhood. 



Conditions now facing the swine grower are certainly bright, 

 and indications are that the man who will keep thoroughly at it 

 is going to be well repaid for efforts expended in the raising of 

 good hogs. Swine organizations can do much towards helping 

 their members by spreading the gospel of good hogs. By doing 

 so you not only help yourself, but you help the man who is 

 induced to raise more and better hogs. 



Petty jealousy should never come into any organization of 

 this kind. We have often seen men who are raising a certain 

 breed of animal say to a prospective buyer that under no cir- 

 cumstances should he buy anything but the particular breed he 

 is keeping. This is all a mistake. To make a success of stock 

 raising one must like the kind of stock he is raising. If a man 

 who is raising scrubs gets it into his mind that he wants to 

 raise better hogs and a breeder of any one of our breeds gets to 

 talking to him and induces him to get some of that particular 

 breed, when this man thinks he would prefer some of the other 

 breeds, it is a ten to one chance that he will not succeed. Let 

 him get the breed that he likes best, and rest assured that if you 

 have the best breed it will be ^j^Qovexed and you will in the end 

 be the gainer. 



