HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



sired by Champion Wonder 1299, brother 

 to British Wonder, was also used. 



Mr. J. H. Lathrop of Iowa used in his 

 herd a boar by Iowa Champion, from the 

 Hubbard herd, and sows from the Stuckey 

 and Morton herd. 



Our object in giving these paragraphs 

 regarding these boars, is to bring to your 

 mind the amount of buying and selling of 

 herd boars that was going on between the 

 different sections of the country. With 

 the few exceptions we have given you the 

 breeding and the boars used in these herds 

 for ten or twelve years before the Colum- 

 bian Exposition, 1893, the first place that the 

 Durocs had been accorded a place worthy 

 of their standing in any show of world 

 wide significance. The show at Chicago 

 brought together the herds of Ohio, Illi- 

 nois, Nebraska and Iowa. The show was 

 judged by J. A. Countryman, of Rochelle, 

 Illinois, who was assisted by D. J. Spauld- 

 ing, of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. The 

 herds represented were that of Morton, 

 Bennett, Searle, Stonebraker, Chandler & 

 Son (Nebraska), Walter & Bro., Roberts 

 & Son, G. W. Trone, J. H. Lathrop. There 

 was a variety of type found among the 

 boars of the several classes but from the 



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