HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



1301, whose dam was by Perry Duke, and 

 who on his sire's side was a great-grandson 

 of Perry Duke. Of this cross came Vernal 

 2nd's daughter. In four generations of 

 Vernal 2nd's daughter's pedigree, Perry 

 Duke, the foundation boar, appears four 

 times. Vernal 2nd's daughter was mated 

 to King Stoner 1661, producing Duchess 

 2nd 5932. King Stoner was from the G. W. 

 Stoner herd of Illinois, was sired by Prince 

 Apollo, a boar of the Holmes and Clark 

 pedigree. Duchess 2nd was later mated 

 to Troubadour 2255 by Doak 2nd, bred by 

 Mr. Doak, of Iowa, and produced Duchess 

 9th. Duchess 9th was second aged sow at 

 the Columbian Show of '93. There is little 

 doubt that this intense breeding brought 

 about by the commingling of these blood 

 lines and by the adding of an occasional 

 outcross produced as good a family of 

 sows as has ever been known. Duchess 9th 

 was bred to Colongues by Legal Tender, 

 by King Stoner ; Legal Tender's dam being 

 by Morton's Perfection, a sow tracing di- 

 rectly back to Mora, one of Morton's foun- 

 dation sows. Duchess 19th was produced 

 by this cross to Colongues, and she was 

 mated to Storm Kine, a boar tracing di- 

 rectly back to the Duchess sows and Duch- 



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