CHAPTER II 



THE DUROC-JERSEY 



Accurate information of the origin of the Duroc-Jersey breed 

 does not seem to be of record. It is generally supposed that this 

 breed is strictly American, yet some information available seems to 

 point to the fact that the original stock was imported at an early 

 date. The best information available bears out the statement that 

 originally there were two distinct families of this popular breed 



A Grand Champion Duroc Jersey Boar 



going under separate names, that of * ' Jersey Reds ' ' and ' ' Duroos. ' ' 

 The name Jersey Red was probably given to this family by Joseph 

 B. Lyman, a resident of New Jersey and an agricultural editor of 

 the New York Tribune. Previous to this time the breed had been 

 called Red Hogs. A Mr. Lippincott, of New Jersey was probably 

 the first man to advertise these hogs as Jersey Reds. 



History records the fact that in 1832 there were a pair of red 

 pigs shipped from England to New Jersey. Clark Pettis makes this 

 statement. "Their unique color rendered them objects of special 

 interest in a locality long noted for successful swine breeders and 

 feeders, among whom had long existed a great spirit of rivalry % as 

 to whom should annually win the honor of raising the best lot of 

 hogs, making the greatest average weight at different ages for which 

 prominent Philadelphia butchers paid advance prices." 



The Duroc family were so called by Isaac Frink, of Milton, Sara- 

 toga county, New York. Mr. Frink visited the farm of Harry Kel- 



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