HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Gage and Geo. A. Lytle, Wisconsin. These 

 names appear very often in Volume I of the 

 American record. In the second and third 

 volumes we find the names of J. M. Stone- 

 braker, Jos. Vogel, Illinois; S. E. Morton, 

 Ohio; Amos Harris, Kentucky; Herring 

 & Hummer, Iowa; G. W. Witham, Illi- 

 nois; John S. Collins, N. J. ; I. M. Stansell, 

 Illinois; Rankin & Son, Illinois; William 

 Roberts and J. W. Stribling, Iowa. The 

 leading families of the breed and the hun- 

 dreds of noted animals produced by their 

 blood lines, with but few exceptions, trace 

 directly to animals recorded in Volumes 

 1, 2 and 3 of the American record, bred by 

 these breeders whose names we have here 

 listed. 



J. M. Stonebraker's first recorded boar 

 was Ben Butler 1387, by Dan Voorhees Jr. 

 323, by old Dan Voorhees, unrecorded. 

 Dan Voorhees Jr. was used by Railsback 

 & Pittsford of Hopedale, 111., breeders who 

 in 1882-3 and -4 were showing Durocs at 

 the principal western shows. 



J. M. Browning's foundation herd was 

 eleven sows, purchased from A. Ingram, 

 being a combination of Ingram's and 

 Bradbury's breeding, the latter a resident 

 of Virginia. One of these eleven sows was 



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