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had never raised a pig and they could not give me a pedigree. I 

 had to keep her for ten months before he would take her back. 

 The record of another hog I bought said that she was bred at a 

 certain date to a certain hog and when her pedigree came she was 

 bred at a later date to her own sire. What should a man do ? He 

 ought to guarantee and ought to make it good. In my experience, I 

 was advertising hogs, and as a matter of course I priced hogs to 

 different parties. I had priced to two parties and when the 

 orders came, they came the same day and I sent to the man I priced 

 to first and to the other man I sent a gilt I had selected for myself 

 and wrote him that if she did not suit him he could send her back 

 at my expense. He fussed all the time but he did not send her 

 back and I did not lose anything, but we have all these little 

 things to contend with. I think it would be the best way to con- 

 form to the golden rule, do as we would be done by. The man I 

 bought those two sows of had not done right by me. I was dis- 

 satisfied and I did not want any more of his stock. "We should do 

 as we would be done by." 



Mr. Evans said: "Along the line of IMr. Harding's remarks, I 

 think that idea of putting hogs in a sale bred to boars unrecorded 

 causes much trouble. A man wants a good hog and wants to 

 know if it is good. If the sire is unrecorded there is trouble for 

 the seller and trouble for the buyer. Nothing should be put into 

 a sale until the sire is recorded. "We hear a good deal about the 

 guarantees in the secretary's office and I don't think any breeder 

 loses by doing more than he thinks is right. It is a pretty hard 

 matter some times ; pretty hard for a judge to decide, but a breeder 

 can afford to do a little more than he thinks is right." 



Mr. Kiel asked the question if it was not a fact that some 

 record associations would not record stock of some other companies 

 and a good deal of trouble caused in this way. To which Mr. Hakes 

 replied: "I do not think it is so with regard to any doing busi- 

 ness in this part of the country. Possibly there is one in the south 

 that they don't recommend, but I do not know that I have ever 

 come across a pedigree but what could be recorded in any asso- 

 ciation." 



Mr. Atkinson said: "As editor of the Homestead, I might be 

 said to be in the firing line. You all know about the volume of hog 

 business that the Homestead does in a year. If a reader buys from 

 an advertiser and gets taken in you may depend upon it that the 

 papers hear of it, and they have a happy faculty in their plan of 

 putting the kicks onto me, so I can give you good information as 



