HISTORY 



-of 

 the 



DUROC 



IT IS conceded by the best posted men in 

 the Duroc business, both old and new, 

 that there is little that can be relied upon 

 in the early history of the Duroc as really 

 authentic. This one fact, however, is pretty 

 conclusively revealed by the examination of 

 everything that can be had on the subject, 

 that the Duroc- Jersey comes from what was 

 best in two or more strains of red hogs. 

 Among these were the massive, coarse Jer- 

 sey Reds of New Jersey, which are descend- 

 ants of a pair of pigs imported from Eng- 

 land in 1832; the more compact Duroc of 

 New York, so named by Isaac Frink of that 

 state, after a noted stallion which he owned ; 

 and from the Kentucky strain which f ounda- 



