HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



are before the public in the West than the 

 boars of all other lines combined. A large 

 majority of these boars have been bred and 

 developed by Wm. Moderow of Nebraska, 

 a hog man of the first rank. The name 

 Sensation is not new for we find back in the 

 early years of the breed the old boar Sen- 

 sation 7393, sired by Orion R. by old Orion, 

 Orion R. being farrowed in the Robert's 

 herd and sold to Moorman of Indiana, one 

 of Indianas pioneer breeders. Sensation 

 was out of Hoosier Girl, a daughter of 

 Winchester Chief, and the latter Is out of 

 old Duchess 40th, the dam of Ohio Chief 

 and Top Notcher. Sam Stewart of Ne- 

 braska secured a son of Sensation from 

 D. W. Brown of Indiana who had pur- 

 chased old Sensation from Moorman and 

 used him in his herd a number of years. 

 This young boar, called Chief Sensation, 

 was out of a sow that came from the Trone 

 herd in Illinois and whose lines trace to 

 Trones Hero, a winner at Chicago, 1893. 

 One of the noted sows produced in the 

 Stewart herd from this boar was Sensa- 

 tion Girl, her dam a great granddaughter 

 of old Top Notcher and Gold Dust Jim, 

 the latter a Roberts and Russell bred boar 

 that produced much improvement in Ne- 



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