HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



of Lucy Wonder. In the Bennett herd, 

 Referee, by the Grand Champion Hero, 

 was being used to good advantage and the 

 blood of this Grand Champion was dif- 

 fused into many of the prominent herds 

 of the time, one son going to the Reed 

 herd in Iowa in '99. In Nebraska the 

 Searles had developed Aksarben, Jr., and 

 in Ohio the Mortons had perfected the 

 Col. M's Variety family of sows and had 

 added a boar from the Stoner herd called 

 Royal LeGrande, a boar tracing back 

 through the H. W. Mumford herd of 

 Michigan and a boar that was almost an 

 entire outcross for Protection and Col. M. 

 sows. 



It was late in the '90s when another man 

 entered the Duroc arena, a man who was 

 destined to be a leader, a man who had 

 the instinct of the constructive breeder and 

 the knowledge of the requirements of a 

 good hog and had the tenacity, vigor, and 

 push to get rapidly towards the front and 

 during all the years from the time he em- 

 barked in Duroc work and got well under 

 way, his herd has been in the lime light 

 and many noted breeding animals 

 have gone out from this headquarters. 

 The first recorded animals owned by Ira 



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