ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 859 



matter will use the big type demonstration, that is they will word 

 it that way if they can. In order to grow the big type you must 

 have the big type blood lines. I never saw a hog that was too large 

 so long a« he had the quality. We have arrived at a time when we 

 have to produce as much as possible with the same amount of mate- 

 rial. T have had pigs that actually gained a pound a day from the 

 time they were born until ready to go to market. I think the big type 

 is getting the dollars and as far the type is concerned, I am largely 

 in favor of the larger type but they must have quality. ' ' 



C. C. Carlin, Des Moines : ' ' Type is type and size is size. Size 

 is not type. You all talk about the big type. There is only one 

 correct type of Poland China hog. He may be big but that doesn't 

 change bis form. I just wish that nine out of ten of you could go 

 up and take some good lessons of old Peter Mouw. You would find 

 ont that you could make big hogs no matter what the blood lines. 

 You would find out that the Peter Mouw blood lines are based 

 on the very smallest strain that the breed has brought to any popu- 

 larity in twenty-five years. Peter Mouw is a feeder and it is his 

 feeding quality that has made his big hogs and not his ability to 

 breed. 



Mr. Yoder: How long has he been getting that size? 



Mr. Carlin : I expect that Mr. Yoder would not have asked that 

 question if he had been at the state fair when Peter Mouw was ruled 

 out because his hogs seemed to be too big. 



Mr. Howard: I don't agree with Mr. Carlin on Peter Mouw's 

 method. I will admit that Peter Mouw's method of feeding will 

 make any kind of hog bigger. You ask him what he feeds and he 

 says ' ' not much of anything, ' ' but when you go into his feed house 

 you will find everything. His little pigs don't look so much better 

 than other little pigs but they come. A few years ago he bought a 

 male from some parties in Illinois and he wanted quite a bit of 

 size and at the same time he wanted lots of quality. The hog came 

 and he fed it for six months to try to bring that hog into form 

 that would be good enough to show. What was the result ? He sent 

 him to the market. He used him on a few sows and sent the pigs 

 to the market. The hog did not have size. He has developed some 

 of the size by feeding but not all of it. You could not give Peter 

 Mouw Osgood stuff. He bought one of them once and it wasn't 

 worth fifteen cents. You could not feed that type into a big, useful 

 hog if you had him a hundred years. 



