HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



tumwa 1884, Oskaloosa the same year, and 

 second and Sweepstakes at Kansas City, 

 second at Sedalia the same year, and first 

 at New Orleans in 1885. This boar was 

 sired by John Jordan 297, the latter being 

 bred by Mr. Bradbury of Nasons, Va., the 

 dam, Tillie (no number), bred by Clark 

 Pettit. In the first volume of the Amer- 

 ican record will be found the pedigree of 

 animals that were winners in the big fairs 

 from New York to New Jersey, Virginia 

 and as far west as Omaha, Neb. The rapid 

 diffusion of this blood of the Duroc-Jersey 

 throughout the hog belt is evidence that 

 there was need for a better pork-growing 

 machine than found at that time. There is 

 no comparison of the Duroc-Jersey of that 

 day with the improved Duroc of today. 

 Yet he had within his makeup the char- 

 acteristics that were bound later to make 

 him a leader in swine production. There 

 were strength of character, ruggedness, 

 prolificacy and the ability to put on pounds 

 of pork on forage and concentrated feeds. 

 The Duroc has been developed through 

 more than three quarters of a century of 

 careful consideration for these qualifica- 

 tions, necessary to make the best machine 

 to convert grain and grass into pounds of 



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