HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



eny. Tip Top Notcher is one of the few 

 Durocs who boasts a marble slab to mark 

 his resting place. Close to the main road 

 on the Seckman farm in Brown County, 

 Ills., the headstone is plainly visible. 



During the winter sale season of 1906-7 

 that inflation of prices that seems to come 

 in cycles, and which unerringly causes dis- 

 aster to breeds of live stock wherever it 

 attacks, took possession of all quarters of 

 the Duroc selling and laid the foundation 

 for the panic and depression in which 

 many breeders were mired. The bank 

 panic coming late that year, augmented 

 the losses and depression. No amount of 

 warning, nor numbers of wrecks visible 

 along the route of the pure bred industry 

 seems to be of any service in such times, 

 and although the breed paper threw out 

 signals against these "frameups" and 

 fictitious prices, and combinations invented 

 to boost prices, little or no heed was given. 

 We believe space given here to one of the 

 breed paper's articles will be well worth 

 the space taken, for it applies today as it 

 did in 1907. This is the article: 



"Why readers .and breeders should get 

 a wrong impression from plain English 

 we don't know, but it seems some have. 



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