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the night our guarantee was up I got two rings. One man who 

 had bought a hog was very much excited. He said the hog was 

 no good and he was quite sure I would have to refund the money. 

 I just eased him off and told him I would refund the money if 

 the hog was not all right. It was simply a case of being scared. I 

 heard nothing more from him nor have not yet. The other man 

 when I heard from him again said everything turned out all right. 

 The third man a while after still declared that the hog was not 

 all right and I told him to bring her back. I never heard any- 

 thing more from him until week before last when I met him in 

 town and asked him where he had been, and he said he was just 

 raising a litter of six pigs out home. I think if we would give 

 everybody a fair deal that it would be easy to get along with 

 them as a rule." 



Mr. Russell said: "I believe a breeder can protect himself 

 very easily by not using a male on his herd until he is sure it 

 has been recorded." 



Mr. Carlin brought up the question of records again by saying. 

 "Someone asked if all Poland Chinas were eligible to record in 

 all records. They are iwt. There was one little record associa- 

 tion in the southwest that is not counted good for anything. All 

 Poland China pedigrees are not accepted by all the records. I 

 think that the produce or descendants of two or three sows that 

 are recorded by one association are not accepted by another." 



Mr. Benson said: "I believe that Mr. Carlin is correct and 

 still not quite correct. The Standard Record Association at its 

 late meeting decided to accept no pedigrees that were not accepted 

 by the other legitimate records, thus barring out from any record 

 the few families referred to by Mr. Carlin. I think the proper 

 thing for anybody to do when he buys a male pig is to have him 

 recorded before he uses him. There is no question in my mind but 

 the gentleman can get his remedy. If the pig has not been re- 

 corded he has been pretty careless. When it comes to guarantee 

 it seems to me there can be no middle ground. It has been close 

 to me for more than thirty years. My father once traded for a 

 cow that raised no calves and he had an expensive lawsuit over 

 it. There are a few little things that are easy to do and one of 

 them is to require return of pedigree. I think that is a very easy 

 way to do with the guarantee and I don 't believe any man will find 

 it to his advantage to sell without a guarantee. You should keep 

 anything six to ten weeks to find out if it is all right and if it is 

 not refund his money." 



