HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Browning sale, Helen Blazes III sold for 

 $1,000, the highest priced sow at that time. 

 She came from a producing family of sows 

 and her new owner afterwards sold one 

 of her gilts at private sale for $1,200. 

 Browning's sale, in which this sow sold, 

 averaged $110.50 on 39 head. Eastern 

 sales were increasing in interest and such 

 prices as $121.50, paid by Col. Igleheart in 

 the Morton sale, and $317.50 by Thos. 

 Johnson in the Whitehall sale, were not 

 uncommon. In the Henry Allen sale in 

 Iowa, Allen's Maid brought $300, and R. 

 J. Harding bought Proud Lady by Proud 

 Advance for $1,275, bred to Old Orion in 

 the Manley sale. 



The leading Fall shows of 1906 pro- 

 duced such champions as Oom Paul in 

 Illinois, a boar owned by George Trone 

 and sired by Jumbo Red, he by Protection. 

 Jumbo Red was a noted son of Protection 

 that went into Nebraska and did much to 

 popularize Durocs by producing not once, 

 but several times the top car lots on the 

 Omaha market. Crimson Wonder Again 

 was champion at Iowa, making three gen- 

 erations of grand champions early in the 

 history of that noted strain. 



In Ohio King's Pal, by King to Be, by 



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