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breed results will follow that will in the end make your venture 

 profitable to not only yourself, but all the breeders of your par- 

 ticular breed. Don't make the object of this sale a failure by 

 going to the sale and buying the animals consigned in order to 

 make a good average. Go with the idea that you are going to 

 get them into new hands, and see to it that you do. 



If I may digress from the strict letter of my topic I want to 

 say a few words to the Duroc breeders in particular. You men 

 living in Missouri breeding Duroc-Jerseys are certainly to be 

 congratulated for the many natural advantages you have in the 

 raising of your chosen breed. Your breed should far and above 

 outnumber all other breeds in your splendid State. 



The farmers the world over have become more progressive. 

 If they succeed in a business way they must be progressive. 

 We are living on high-priced land, which is getting higher all the 

 time. We are feeding high-priced feeds, drive high-priced horses 

 and use high-priced help. To meet these conditions and make a 

 success of our business we must necessarily make the most of our 

 resources. 



Farmers and hog breeders are fast finding that grass is a 

 natural factor in the producing of pork; they are finding that they 

 must use grass as much as possible in the production of pork if 

 they expect to succeed. What is to be the result? Will it not 

 be a demand for the hog that will produce the most pounds of 

 pork from grass? I am firmly of the belief that in the Duroc 

 you have that hog. No hog will go on the pasture and produce 

 the pork that will the Duroc. If this is a fact you men in Mis- 

 souri, which nature endows with such a long pasture season, 

 certainly have a golden opportunity to push your favorite breed. 



Well do I remember in my own State of Nebraska, which is 

 many miles north of you and where our pasture season is much 

 shorter than yours, some twenty years ago the Duroc hog was 

 almost a laughing stock. Fortunate for this splendid breed of 

 hogs, men were at the helm as breeders who kept tenaciously at 

 it. A good state breed organization was formed, harmony was 

 always the watchword, the breed was pushed to the extent that 

 today it far and away outnumbers any other breed, and many 

 times at the Nebraska State Fair the Durocs outnumber all 

 other breeds. 



I urge upon the breeder of Durocs in Missouri to each put 

 his shoulder to the wheel and hustle for new members of your 

 association. If you have not already done so, adopt a consti- 



