THE DUROC-JERSEY 



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Walts Colonel 5795 a, Ohio Chief 8727 a, Top-Notcher 88033, 

 and King of Kings 10919. Among the many more recent Duroc- 

 Jerseys celebrated as sires are Orion Chief 13333 a, Golden Rule 

 14101 a, Cherry Chief 2 1333 a, Tippy Colonel 225673, Good-E- 

 Nuff 22437 a, Proud Advance 23549 n, Defender 25893 a, Fancy 

 Colonel 274273, Pals Colonel 291673, The Professor 354753, 

 Joe Orion II 35527 3, Crimson Wonder Again 40785 n, 3nd Orion 

 Cherry King 42475 a. A few of the fsmous dams are Cherry Vale 

 Queen 18468 a, Duchess 4Oth 18958 3, Lucy D 2d 18106 n, Love 

 3 5 0603, Cherry Queen 

 T 100466, 3nd H.A's 

 Queen 143382 n. 



Prices paid for 

 Duroc-Jersey pigs have 

 risen to high figures in 

 recent years. Some 

 of the notable sales of 

 individual boars are as 

 follows : in 1906 S. E. 

 Morton & Company 

 of Ohio sold to R. J. 

 Hardingand O. E. Os- 

 born of Iowa the fa- 

 mous boar Ohio fhiW FlG ' 338 ' A Duroc -J erse y S nt of superior conforma- 

 tion and quality, bred by Sears & Nichols of Ohio. 

 87273 for $2OOO. From photograph by the author 



Later they sold 3 third 



interest in him to J. M. Morrison of Nebraska for the same sum. 

 At 3 sale held during the winter of 1907-1908 the sow Savannah 

 Belle, with 3 litter sired by Ohio Chief, sold for $3300. On 

 February 6, 1907, E. A. Baxter sold to McNeil Brothers, at public 

 auction, the hog Buddy K IV 20861 a for $5025, the highest price 

 at public sale up to 1919 for a Duroc-Jersey boar; in 1908 Ira 

 Jackson sold Orion Chief 13333 a to Thomss Johnson for $3500; 

 in 1911 Superbs 314033 wss sold by H. E. Browning to East 

 Brothers and Ewing for $1500; in 1915 Royal King 56047 a W3S 

 sold by Ira Jackson to Johnson Brothers for $2650 ; in 191 5 Hugh 

 Stewart sold Colonel S Jr. 43869 a to Thomss Johnson for $2500 ; 

 and in 1918 Charles F. Sprague sold Joe Orion II 35527 a, 



