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Points 



Color: Black, with six white points— tip of tail, four white feet and white in 

 face on nose or point of lower jaw; all to be perceptible without close exami- 

 nation- splashes of white on jaw. legs or flank, or a lew spots of white on the ^ 

 ''°%^?' ^Str^: ■ Condition. -vi^r and" v^ality " to ' be" con.id.r.cL 

 There should be a difference between breeding animals and those kept or titt.a 

 for show of at least 25 per cent in size. In show condition or when tat. a 

 two-N-ear old boar should not weigh less than 600 pounds, and a sow not less 

 han' 500 pounds. Boars 1 year and over, 400 pounds; sows. 350 pounds 

 Boars 18 months, 500 pounds; sows. 450 pounds.. Boars and sows 6 months 

 old not less than 160 pounds. All hogs in just fair breeding condition, one- 

 fourth less for size. The keeping and chance that a young hog has cuts <,uite 

 a figure in his size and should be considered, other points being equal. Fine 

 quality and size combined are desirable ■ ■ • • • w.-;; •■/.•• ■;;■.„■ 



Aciwn a,id Style: Action vigorous, easy and graceful. St>1e attracts e 

 high carriage; and in males testicles should be prominent and ot about the same 

 size, and yet not too large and pouchy. • /»';„ J'^VuV,,', 



Condition: Healthy; skin clear of scurf, scales, and sores; soft and mellow 

 to the touch; flesh fine, evenly laid on. and free from lumps and wrinkles, hair 

 soft and lying close to the body; good feeding qualities. •. • • ■'• 



DilposMon: Lively, easily handled, and seemingly kmd and responsive ^^ 



*° T^ml^try^^^adapiation 'of points:" The adaptation of all the points, size, 

 and style combined to make the desired type or model ^ 



Total 1°0- 



DUROC-JERSEYS 



Tlie swine which have made the most notable prog- 

 ress toward homogeneity, improvement in quality and 

 steady advance in numbers and popular favor in the 

 quarter of a century prior to 1908, are the now well- 

 established Duroc-Jerseys of sandy, bronze or red color. 

 This advancement may be traced directly to the "getting 

 together" of men in New York and New Jersey, who had 

 been breeding hogs of varying and different characteris- 

 tics and with no particular similarity other than that they 

 were called "red" and grew rapidly to large size, and l^y 

 agreement upon a type toward which they would breed 

 tliereafter, a common name by which the resulting type 

 should l^e known, and a carefully kept public register of 

 the pedigrees of such animals, from the succeeding im- 

 provement, as were deemed desirable for purposes of 

 propagation. 



