HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Harding and Osborn bought him out and 

 Ohio Chief died on the Harding farm. 



Tip Top Notcher, the World's Grand 

 Champion at St. Louis, produced many 

 good sons and daughters, Helen's Tip Top 

 Notcher, one of the- former, selling at a 

 record price as a yearling at $1,000. He 

 transmitted to his progeny much rugged- 

 ness and prolificacy. Geo. Seckman, who 

 owned and showed him, sold him for 

 $5,000 to a company of Illinois breeders, 

 but before the hog died, Seckman re-pur- 

 chased him. Tip Top Notcher was by 

 Top Notcher 8803, he by Orion II., by Old 

 Orion, and was bred by R. C. Watt, of 

 Ohio. His sire was a winner in Ohio 

 shows, and his dam came from the Morton 

 line of Variety sows. A controversy over 

 the correctness of his pedigree came up 

 immediately after his winning at St. Louis, 

 and the American Association at one time 

 voted to not accept pedigrees from this 

 breeding, but the following year rescinded 

 their action, the directors not considering 

 the charge backed up by sufficient evi- 

 dence to warrant the former action. The 

 officers of the National Association found 

 insufficient grounds for any action, and its 

 Board accepted all pedigrees of his prog- 



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