HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



brought $500 in the Browning sale. Alix 

 II, the Iowa and Nebraska Champion, sold 

 for $2,200 in the Morrison sale. One-half 

 interest in Kant Be Beat sold in the same 

 sale for $1,500. Alix II was a sow bred 

 by Manley & Co., sired by Proud Advance 

 out of an Orion dam. She never proved to 

 be a real producer. Kant Be Beat was by 

 King Hustler out of a dam by Longfellow 

 6815, and was bred and shown by Watt 

 & Foust. He had forty or fifty Champion- 

 ships to his credit., and was a good boar 

 for his time. Ceres Belle, a noted Ne- 

 braska sow, brought $1,025. S. E.'s Model 

 30996, by Ohio Chief, a sow shown at St. 

 Louis and sold to the Proud Advance Stock 

 Co., was sold in their sale at $1,060. 



Red Wonder, a Pilot Wonder bred hog, 

 Owned in Illinois, was Grand Champion at 

 Iowa, 1907, and Ruberta G., full sister to 

 Rubertha, the 1906 Champion, won the 

 female purple. Red Wonder was not an 

 even producer, but sired a few choice 

 daughters. In Indiana, Col. Scott by Carls 

 Col. was Grand Champion, and M. A/s 

 Model, shown by the Kraschels, of Illi- 

 nois, was sow Champion. She afterwards 

 sold in their sale for $1,001. She was a 

 line bred Ohio Chief sow. At Nebraska, 



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