SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI. 247 



It is out of harmony with nature to have a short, strong foot and 

 broad, short head on an extra long body. Choose which you will, remem- 

 bering that it is not natural for the most rapid flesh formers at the same 

 time with same feeds to be the heaviest milkers and most satisfactory 

 mothers. 



It is not necessary that we replace the present self-binder with the 

 old, simple and stronger reaper to withstand the shocks of nigger heads 

 in the grain. We can better remove the stones from the field. 



We do not need stronger bone than the breeder of today produces^ 

 but rather a better chance to develop the great strength inherent in the 

 pure bred swine cf today. 



Farmers and feeders net only demand stronger bone and backs than 

 they themselves have, but are each year buying more and at better prices 

 because they see breeders producing what they want. 



Pillowing the reading of Mr. Benson's paper remarks were 

 made by L. H. Roberts and R. J. Harding. 



Mr. Roberts said: "I think there has been a wrong impression 

 for years in regard to this type of hog. The breeder ought to 

 produce the type of hog that the farmer wants. We ought to 

 produce the type of hog that fills the requirements of the packer. 

 I understand it does not take a little short hog to do that. If he 

 is long and even he fills that requirement just as well as the lit- 

 tle short one. The reason is that nine-tenths of the farmers today, 

 and a few breeders, will buy a type of hog and they can not hold 

 that type because of vicious management and unwise feeding. 

 That is why the farmer keeps the long Ij^e of hog — -because he 

 will eventually run to that. In order to develope the hog, I don't 

 care how large so you keep the evenness of type. Not the great 

 hog we had one time, but there is no one producing too large a 

 type of hog, in my judgment. We want the bone that is hard, 

 and care and management in feeding combined with breeding and 

 blood." 



Mr. Harding said. "I would like to say just a word on the 

 subject and give my idea. I don't believe any breeder will cater 

 to the demand of the market because the market changes just 

 about as often as the moon. One week they want one kind and 

 the next week another kind. Sometimes they will favor the coarse, 

 lean things and other times they want the fat kind; sometimes 

 they want them to weigh two hundred pounds and sometimes four. 

 It is not the business of the breeder to cater to the notions of the 

 packer, but to produce hogs there is the most profit in. I want 

 size but there is a difference. There is a coarse ungainly kind of 

 hog that gets immense size but he is out of shape. They are not 



