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twin brother of the original Mr. Todd, crossed these hogs 

 on the original Chester Whites from Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania, using six or seven crosses. This produced 

 what is known as Todd's Improved Chester. It was an 

 excellent white hog of very uniform type. The name 

 Todd was later dropped and only the term Improved 

 Chester White used. This then is a cross between the 

 original Chester White of Pennsylvania and the Todd 

 Chester as originally produced in Ohio. The former 

 contained the blood of English pigs as well as that of the 

 early white hogs of Pennsylvania, while the latter con- 

 tained the blood of the early white hogs of Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts, and the white boar Normandy pre- 

 sumably of French origin, together with the blood of the 

 original Chester Whites. 



Ohio Improved Chester (O. I. C.). This strain of the 

 Chester originated in the hands of L. B. Silver, who was 

 said to be a close student of animal form and character- 

 istics and who bred for improvement in swine. He se- 

 lected the Chester White with which to make his im- 

 provement and obtained the foundation stock for his 

 herd from Chester County, Pennsylvania, selecting only 

 what he considered to be the best individuals and as large 

 a number as available. He had in mind the development 

 of as nearly an ideal hog as possible for the production 

 of pork. His idea in selection was to correct as far as 

 he could all the weak points in the different individuals 

 used in the breeding herd. 



After having established and developed his herd they 

 were called the Ohio Improved Chesters (O. I. C.). They 

 were said at the time to be a better hog than the original 

 Chester White, having more quality, more uniformity, 

 and better form. During recent years, however, whatever 



