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tude of our future. We do not even know the magnitude of the present. 

 There is hardly a farmer in this land but sends something to market. The 

 good wife sends eggs and chickens. These httle streams start from 

 every farm and form Httle creeks and these Httle creeks form rivers 

 which flow into the great channels and these form the great ocean of ihc 

 markets. The commodities have come from all over the .country. VVf 

 fre the greatest people in the world and we have her commerce. Our 

 future is great if we awaken to our responsibilities. 



'•MORE LEAN MEAT AND LARGER LITTERS" DEMANDED 



IN THE POLAND CHINAS. 



(W. B. Cully, Bunceton, Mo.) 



The demand is one that we know exists, but the solution of the 

 problem under present conditions is difficult. The present type of 

 Poland Chinas is one that cannot be eliminated from the profitable pro- 

 duction of pork where corn is the basis of all economic feeding opera- 

 tions. 



The demand for more lean meat is an acknowledgement the Poland 

 China will get fat. This is one of the foundation stones upon which the 

 breed has been established. For his easy feeding qualities his popu- 

 larity has, for over fifty years, held sway wherever corn is king. Some 

 have ventured to suggest the bacon hog as the solution, but that sugges- 

 tion has died in its utterance. In the first place the pork producers of 

 the corn belt are not struck with his shape ; secondly, time is too precious 

 to produce him, and, lastly, the market demand would be limited, because 

 it demands both meat and lard, two articles equally valuable. 



The most perfect specimens of the breed today are veritable paral- 

 lelograms of flesh. The waste is minimum when placed upon the block. 

 The awards for grand champion barrow at our recent World's Fair 

 were made by Mr. Ferguson, buyer for and representative of Swift & 

 Company of Chicago, a man thoroughly familiar with the type and kind 

 of hog in favor for the block. The Poland China barrow. Cricket, won 

 the grand championship over all breeds. The trend of the market de- 

 mand in the last few years has caused the evolution of the Poland China 

 to the present type. A type that because of its time-saving tendency in 

 pork production has added thousands of dollars annually to our agri- 

 cultural wealth. To retain this profitable carcass, and still acquire more 

 lean meat, is a problem that will admit of much experimental research. 



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