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right along. I think there has been just as much detriment done 

 to the breed by picking the big coarse animals as the too small ones." 



Mr. Hoffman continued on the same question: "There are sev- 

 eral ways to maintain size — by breeding, by feeding, and different 

 ways and it is very essential for us to keep guarding against the 

 tendency to grow poor ones. You have to guard against it in your 

 selections. I don't know of any better way to keep uniform type 

 than by following the saying that like produces like. I believe 

 that if we use a sow and a male that are near alike we will produce 

 a more uniform type than in any other way. It is quite a broad 

 term to say size or type. I read an article the other day along this 

 line and I think the man was laboring under a great misunderstand- 

 ing because he claimed that the fairs and score cards and every- 

 thing else tended to run down our hogs and make them small. I 

 don't look at it that way. If you understand the score card right 

 you will And you get a better hog, a more uniform and symmetrical 

 hog. I think by feeding and selecting right you will get the best 

 results. I think as Mr. Swallow says, that when a man buys a big 

 coarse hog he makes as much a mistake as when he picks a fine, small 

 one." 



Mr. Swallow gave his ideas further, saying : "I started out about 

 fifty years ago and I picked my type of animal that I wanted to 

 raise and in selecting after that I always aimed to get something 

 that was as near that type as I could. You want to get as much 

 size with quality as you can and just keep that going right along. 

 That is what I did and I have always had pretty fair luck, espec- 

 ially at the fairs. Keep a good fair sized animal and get stock that 

 will run back pretty near the same size and type as the animal you 

 started with." 



D. L. Howard expressed his views also: "I think Mr. Swallow's 

 method of breeding is one to follow. Mr. Swallow has made a suc- 

 cess of it. As lias been stated before, you can get a hog too small or 

 too big even for pork because he will not bring so much on the 

 market for the reason that the offal is greater in the slaughter. 

 I like a big hog myself better than a little one. The big hogs 

 are all right provided they have quality." 



Mr. Harding: I find the trouble with the size business, with 

 keeping the size, is that the tendency has largely been to place rib- 

 bons at our state fairs on rather medium or under medium hogs. 

 There is one place where I believe the article referred to by Mr. 

 Hoffman was in part right because there has been a tendency a great 



