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latter was charge d'affaires. General Clay felt confident 

 that descendants of these had found their way from 

 Kentucky to the eastern states and contributed to the 

 improvement of the stock there. 



The Duroc-Jerseys, while they may not have been 

 widely exploited as gaining i-he heavy weights reached 

 by overgrown specimens of the Poland-China or Chester 

 White breeds, are so nearly the same size as to properly 

 be classed as large hogs, and undoubtedly they will, 

 under the right conditions, produce as much pork in 

 the same length erf time and from the same quantity of 

 feed as swine of any breed. They are prolific, rearing 

 large litters, and are of the most quiet, peaceable dis- 

 position. 



Notwithstanding the fact that certain strams of these 

 hogs are inclined to coarseness, there are some that 

 carry greater weight on smaller bone than those of any 

 other breed of which the author has knowledge. In 

 fact, in some Duroc-Jerseys, the limits have appeared en- 

 tirely too small to sustain the bodies, yet the animals 

 were perfect in their movements and stood as firmly on 

 the best of feet and with ankles as erect, sustaining and 

 stout as those of a young mule. One respect in which 

 the breeders of Duroc-Jerseys have so far failed is the 

 securing of uniformity in color. The ideal color toward 

 which the more fastidious and ambitious breeders have 

 worked is a "cherry red," from which such variations as 

 "bright red" and "dark cherry" are allowable. While 

 considerable progress has been made in establishing 

 strains with this color, it lias, as vet. bv no means become 



