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wasn't any good, and wanted me to send him another pig in exchange. 

 I shipped him a pig on Friday and told him to ship the other back to me 

 on Monday. Two weelis from that time I received the last pig sent him, 

 in a sadly run down condition, and he wrote me that the first pig had 

 gotten all right, and he would keep him. He got two weeks use of two 

 boars with the expense of one, and I had to pay the expense back on my 

 own pig. 



There is one matter I wish we could arrange, and that is the matter 

 of guaranteeing pedigrees. There is a case that came under my notice. 

 A party went to a public sale and bought a boar. Then he went ahead 

 and bred his sows and put twenty head in a sale. Then it came out that 

 the record company refused to record the pedigree of the boar. This 

 placed him in a very awkward position. What should be done in such a 

 case? 



After the reading of the paper by ]\Ir. Cox, remarks were made 

 by C. L. Funck, of Osceola, Iowa; K. J. Harding', of Macedonia; 

 L. C. Reese, of Prescott ; G. W. Ilockett, of ]\Ianilla ; W. B. Turner, 

 of Farrar; Robt. Evans, of Peoria, Illinois; C. C. Kiel, of Ladora, 

 Iowa; W. R. Hakes, of Williamsburg; James Atkinson, of Des 

 Moines; Secretary Carlin ; E. Z. Russell, of Blair, Nebraska; J. 

 A. Benson, of Primghar, Iowa ; W. ]\I. Lambing, of Cedar Rapids ; 

 H. M. Yoder, of Des ]Moines; and H. F. Hoffman, of Washta. 



Mr. Funck said: "This is one of the subjects that I think 

 every person here is interested in and every swine breeder in 

 Iowa is interested in it. If there is one subject more important 

 than another it is this one. I had a little experience Avith a mail 

 order myself. I purchased a sow from a man at Le Mars. I sent 

 him the money and the order. The sow was due to farrow three 

 weeks later. I did not hear from the man after I sent the order 

 and the money so I wrote again. Still I did not hear from him and 

 I wrote the postmaster and found that the letter was still lying in 

 the postoffiee. The man had a rural route and I had written the 

 letter addressed just to the town. Then I told him if the sow 

 was not too far gone to ship her and if she was, to send the 

 money back. He wrote that she would be all right as she was not 

 due for two weeks. The day she arrived at "Woodburn, my station, 

 was the day she was due to farrow ; that was on Friday. On Mon- 

 day she had nine pigs. Thej^ were dead. That was my experi- 

 ence with mail order, and I think the buyer and seller both have 

 duties and obligations." 



Mr. Harding said: "I would like to say a Avord in regard to 

 the pedigree business. I don 't think any breeder ought to put sows 

 in a sale bred to a hog not already recorded. I believe it is an im- 



