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were likewise. A deep-bodied hog of good length always got the call over 

 the "lardy" fellows. It was a matter of comment that the Duroc-Jersey 

 winners were by a marked amount the heaviest of the breeds. Some said 

 they were 25 per cent heavier. Two hundred pounds would little more 

 than cover the difference in the aged boar division. The sow classes ran 

 along the same type. While they showed hardly as much depth as the 

 male classes, most of them were excusable as they still carried marked 

 evidence of their summer's usefulness in the breeding pens. Frame and 

 plenty of it, good length, great depth, and a smooth body on strong pasterns 

 carried the honors. 



Berkshires were not a large show. Fewer numbers always make a 

 show look less uniform in quality, bringing such backward individuals 

 as there may be up well forward. But that does not mean that Berk- 

 shire men saw nothing good. Mr. McPherson showed stuff that rival 

 exhibitors freely classed higher than the best of a year ago. Rookwood 

 Farm did not succeed in landing a blue yet showed a strong uniform 

 lot of pigs. It was W. S. Corsa's herd that led the winnings and set 

 the type. Being entirely of his own breeding their excellence stands 

 proof of constructive breeding ability. His Rival's Last was outstand- 

 ingly leader of the male half of the show. He is a good Berkshire — great 

 length, smooth, trim of belly and clean in the head. The grand cham- 

 pion sow contest brought on a fight between the Corsa herd and Mc- 

 Pherson's junior champion sow. The latter was the neater in underline 

 and plumper in hind quarters. Corsa's sow on the other hand was 

 deeper, very low-set and carried an extreme depth of flesh over the back, 

 shoulders and neck with a smoothness unequaled by any other Berkshire 

 shown. Prof. W. B. Richards, Fargo, N. D., tied the ribbons. 



Hampshires produced considerable competition, with Willie Essig 

 W. J. Brinigar and Mike Sharp & Son, the leading winners. Wilson Rowe 

 of Ames was the judge. His type was length and smoothness of body, 

 neat head and good feet. While bacon-eaters have no use for the feet, 

 most hogs find it necessary to use them considerably, and Rowe is a 

 little particular on that point, and seldom indeed does a hog long in 

 toe or weak in pastern attain high rank, no matter what body it may 

 have. 



Mr. Rowe also judged Chester Whites. The comparative quality of 

 the exhibit is best told in the words of a breeder attending both the 1910 

 and 1911 fairs buying herd boars: "One thing is sure," said he. "It is 

 a much better show than last year. Boars that I wanted then were 

 limited to two herds. This year I find six or seven herds with plenty of 

 good ones in each of them." It was indeed a uniform bunch with an 

 extra fine lot of young stuff. 



Frank Thornber, Carthage, 111., judged the Tamworths and Yorkshires, 

 two herds competing in each. C. C. Roupe won most .of the first prizes 

 and all but one championship in Tamworths. The competing herd was 

 that of G. N. Weighton. In Yorkshires B. F. Kunkle won most of the 

 blue ribbons on males, but his rival, B. F. Davidson, secured all first 

 prizes on females and all but one championship. 



