HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Duroc enthusiasm. He has always be- 

 lieved in Durocs, in gilt edged pedigree 

 and in publicity. When King of Cols, 

 came into the limelight, he and L. E. 

 Thomas purchased Chief of Cols., one of 

 the King's greatest sons, and developed 

 him into a Grand Champion and he proved 

 to be one of the best breeding boars of the 

 Colonel family, producing sows with high 

 backs and stretch with ability to produce 

 good litters. Browning's herd was strong 

 in Proud Advance blood lines. One of the 

 most noted sows he ever owned was Lucy 

 Wonder 21st, a daughter of Lucy Wonder 

 of World's Fair fame (1893). Her litter, 

 by Proud Advance, producing Proud 

 Fancy, one of the most noted dams of the 

 breed. Browning bought Defender as a 

 yearling, fitted and showed him, won first 

 at Iowa and Illinois and Grand Champion 

 International, 1909, and Grand Champion 

 International, 1910. In company with R. 

 L. Comer he purchased Crimson Wonder 

 III., a Nebraska show hog, and succeeded 

 in intermingling this Western blood into 

 his herd, which up to that time was of 

 Colonel, Ohio Chief and Proud Advance 

 breeding. The foundation of the Helen 

 Blazes sows, Helen Blazes 64S02n was 



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