HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



best account of the show put in print at 

 that time, for which we are indebted to 

 the Breeders' Gazette, it would seem that 

 the judges succeeded in placing animals 

 worthy of the position he gave them. 

 Hero, the Grand Champion boar, was 

 surely best of the male section, and was 

 awarded that place after being placed at 

 the head of the under : year class. The 

 sows of the show, as they do many times 

 in our later contests, made more pleasing 

 appearance and showed more even type. 

 Lucy Wonder, the head of the great Won- 

 der family of sows was placed at the top 

 in the aged class. Duchess 9th, men- 

 tioned heretofore in these pages, being 

 second. Some mighty choice things in 

 the pig class came to light from the Ben- 

 net herd, daughters of Cuckoo, already 

 mentioned. They showed considerable 

 length, well backed, and hammed and lots 

 of finish and quality. In closing the ac- 

 count of this sow the Breeders' Gazette 

 states that the judge would not have gone 

 wrong if he had turned Lucy Wonder 

 down for Champion and placed the purple 

 on Bennett's under-twelve-month pig, 

 Brightness. 



Two years after the Columbian Expo- 



