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to boom a certain strain of hogs and have done many 

 questionable things to carry their point, and not a 

 little to discredit the sales of honest men. Even 

 now there is pending in the courts a suit involving 

 the most gigantic fraud that could possibly be imag- 

 ined. What the outcome of the suit will be remains 

 to be seen. While the causes of this suit seem to 

 be detrimental to the business, I believe in the end 

 it will work lasting good to the business. In future 

 men will scan as carefully the pedigree of the man sell- 

 ing the hog as they do the hog himself. The sales held 

 recently have demonstrated several things. One of 

 these is that hogs in future are going to sell for less 

 money and will sell directly on 

 their merits. If they have been 

 bred by or have been passed 

 through the hands of men of 

 questionable character, the care- 

 ful breeder is going to let them 

 alone. It will not do to say that 

 because a few men engaged in 

 the business have been dishonest 

 the business is going to be everlastingly ruined. 



So long as men eat, so long will there be a demand 

 for hogs, and so long as the demand for hogs continues, 

 so long will they be bred. So long as hogs are bred, 

 so long will there be a demand for choice breeding 

 stock. The time is here when the boomer and the dis- 

 honest breeder must go, and when that is accomplished 

 the honest breeder will enjoy such a period of pros- 

 perity as he has not seen in many years. The public 

 sale will continue, but on a modified and more common- 



