THE DUROC-JERSEY 507 



Mr. Frink called his boar and descendants Durocs, in honor of 

 the horse. This boar was crossed on common sows, and many 

 of the offspring resembled him, being long and deep of body, 

 lop-eared, heavy of shoulder and ham, quiet of disposition, and 

 making rapid growth. The Durocs were finer in bone and carcass 

 than the Jersey Reds. In 1830 William Ensign of Stillwater, 

 Saratoga County, secured a pair of red pigs from Connecticut, 

 where they were known as Red Berkshires, getting more the 

 next year, and breeding and distributing them considerably. 

 The Frink and Ensign families of Durocs became very popular. 



FIG. 234. Ohio Chief 8727, first-prize aged Duroc Jersey boar at the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Bred and exhibited by S. E. Morton & 

 Co., Camden, Ohio. Photograph from Professor William Dietrich 



The origin of the Duroc- Jersey pig is the result of the amalga- 

 mation of the blood of these red breeds or families above referred 

 to. Colonel F. D. Curtis of Saratoga County, New York, long 

 a breeder and familiar with existing conditions, did much to 

 promote improvement of this breed during the stage of amalga- 

 mation. Mr. William H. Holmes also was a leading breeder and 

 improver in Colonel Curtis's time. The Durocs of New York, the 

 Red Berkshires of Connecticut, and the Red Rocks of Vermont, 

 as they were called, were of the same general type. Some 

 system in breeding was attempted, and in 1877 the breeders of 

 Washington and Saratoga counties in New York met and decided 



