HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



which was the boar afterwards known as 

 King of Cols. He was never better than 

 third, Muncie Chief and others of the litter 

 always leading him. When Scott had a 

 sale in the Fall, Muncie Chief went to Col- 

 bert & Stroud, of Indiana, and was the 

 first pick of a majority of the breeders 

 present. The old "War Horse," Sam Mor- 

 ton, attended the sale and had picked out 

 this undeveloped pig as one worth while, 

 and when he bid him in, a good many who 

 thought they knew hogs, wondered at his 

 choice. This hog brought Morton more 

 notice and more money than any he had 

 ever owned, and breeders from all quar- 

 ters of the hog kingdom were soon coming 

 to him for King of Col. get. A syndicate 

 of Illinois breeders offered him $10,000 

 at one time for the boar, but the offer was 

 turned down, and the boar died on the 

 Morton Farm in the height of his useful- 

 ness. Among the show boars he produced 

 were Chief's Col., Defender, King of Cols. 

 Ideal, Col. S., King Wonder, Ohio Col. 

 and Harding's King of Cols, and a num- 

 ber of his daughters were winners of the 

 purple. Many other breeding sons were 

 sent out by Morton into all section of the 

 hog belt to improve Durocs with size, 



