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Frank Buck of Valley Junction, Iowa, said: "I would like to 
names. If she fails to farrow the breeder should pay the express 
both ways, because he is to blame. There is a good reason of com- 
plaint both through the papers and orally and it is well grounded. 
It is doing a great injustice to the swine industry. I think this 
matter should be taken in hand and every breeder should in some 
way be made to feel that he is under obligations. We should know 
exactly when the sows are bred and should not let them go off the 
place unless we know. I will admit that we are imposed upon lots 
of times, but because others do wrong is no reason that we should. ' ' 
Mr. Swallow said : " I think if you sell at private sale or public 
it should be on the same principle and if you sell a man an animal 
for a good price and she don't prove to be in pig you should pay 
express both ways. If you sell a good sow and she dies you should 
make the loss half. The same way with a male, I have made that 
a practice and when the animal don't prove to be good, all I ask 
is to put it on the market and give me half. If we all did that 
way I think we would have lots less trouble. But when a man 
uses good judgment and tries to take care of an animal and then 
it proves to be no good we should meet him half way. ' ' 
Some one asked how a breeder is to know when he ships a sow 
whether the person to whom it is shipped is careful in all respects 
in caring for the sow at farrowing time. He stated that he had 
shipped sows in that condition to people he did not know and they 
had reported the sows lost and he had no way of telling if they 
were honest in their statements. Mr. Swallow replied: ''We expect 
everybody to be honest and dealing with honest people and have to 
take it as it comes." 
One gentleman said: "We have a right to expect when we buy 
an animal to get our pedigree and that is one of the things that 
is hurting the business and is one of the worst stumbling blocks. 
Men ask me about that more than anything else. Very few of 
the catalogues guarantee you a pedigree, but you have every right 
to expect to get one. Many times it runs up to four or five months 
or a year and I have stuff on the farm at the present time that 
should have their pedigree, but the men from whom I bought them 
haven't the pedigrees from the other parties. That is one thing 
that would be well to keep before the breeders that they catalogue 
in such shape that they can furnish pedigrees. If you give a man 
the pedigree he feels better over it even if he never looks at it. ' ' 
Mr. Hockett said: "In regard to the sale guarantee, I think it 
is something that all of us should fulfil. If I sell a man a sow 
