CHAPTER V 



THE SPOTTED POLAND CHINA 



The Spotted Poland-China breed claims its origin is identical 

 with all other Poland- Chinas. They originated from an amalga- 

 mation of from five to seven mongrel breeds, beginning about 1830. 

 The first record association of the Poland-China breed, the old 

 Central, bears out this statement, as its first volume contains photo- 

 graphs and descriptions in about 1877 of black hogs, spotted hogs, 



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and white hogs from the same litter. Many Poland-Chinas at 

 that time were white, spotted and black. We maintain that through 

 color prejudices the white hogs and spotted ones were discriminated 

 against to such an extent that they were almost extinct by 1910; 

 but a few breeders held out for spotted 'hogs, and in 1914 an 

 association was formed in Indianapolis for a record from that time 

 on for the spotted ones, and they were to be known as the Spoted 

 Poland-China. 



Many of the hogs included in the National Spotted Poland- 

 China Record Association are eligible in the black Poland-China 

 records also, while others were picked up in 1914 and recorded 

 as foundation animals. 



'We do not claim a perfect animal in type or color at this time, 

 but we do claim to be making an honest effort to improve our hogs, 

 and to breed them as near a given standard, both as to individuals 

 and as to color, as possible. We are trying to develop a hog of 

 good length, a nice spring of ribs, a smooth coat, and marked about 

 40 per cent white and nicely spotted, and we want just as large a 



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