THE POLAND-CHINA 



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Ohio Poland China Record was published in 1 877 by Carl Friegau 

 and M. J. Lawrence. Twenty-six volumes of this record have 

 been published as a full set. The American Poland-China Record 

 Company was organized in January, 1878, at Cedar Rapids, 

 Iowa, publishing the first volume of their herdbook in 1879, 

 since which it has published about forty volumes. The Central 

 Poland-China Association was organized in February, 1880, at 

 Indianapolis, publishing its first volume the same year. The 

 Northwestern Poland-China Swine Association was organized 

 at Washington, Kansas, in 1881. The Standard Poland-China 

 Record Association was organized in 1887 at Marysville, Mis- 

 souri, publishing the first volume of its swine record that year, 

 having published about twenty volumes since that time. The 

 Southwestern Poland-China Record Association was organized 

 at Ripley, Tennessee, in 1 896. Two small herdbooks have been 

 published, including nearly 2000 registrations. Several hundred 

 thousand Poland-China hogs have been registered, the American, 

 Standard, Central, and Ohio associations each doing a large 

 business. Recently an effort has been made to amalgamate all 

 the different Poland-China associations into one. This resulted in 

 the consolidation in 1905 of the Ohio and Central Poland-China 

 associations, under the name of the National Poland-China Record. 

 The high prices paid for Poland-China pigs surpass those paid 

 for any other breed of swine. Some of the highest reputed prices 

 paid occurred in the summer of 1903, when at auction sales held 

 in Indiana a number of pigs were sold to companies of buyers on 

 a shares basis. For example, two men owned a half interest in a 

 boar, which they sold by shares, ten shares being issued. Each 

 owner reserved one share and then offered the other eight at 

 auction. Thus ten men came into ownership of a boar, eight 

 giving security in notes or cash, usually the former. By such 

 a plan eight shares of interest in the boar Chief Perfection 2d 

 were sold in July, 1903, for $13,850, eight men bidding off the 

 shares at sums ranging from $1500 to $2000 each. On the 

 basis of purchase the boar was valued at $34,625, an absurd 

 proposition on the face of it. Such sales for a season made a 

 great furor, but soon became discredited and were discontinued. 

 Among noteworthy sales of regular form is that of King Medium 



