HISTORY OF THE DUROC 



Orion and Critic lines. Great Wonder I 

 Am's top lines trace back as follows: Great 

 Wonder I Am, Great Wonder, B. & G.'s 

 Wonder, P. V.'s Wonder, Lincoln Won- 

 der, Ohio Chief and Protection, the name 

 "Wonder" in this line coming from the 

 dam of Lincoln Wonder, Morrison's Peach, 

 a daughter of old Crimson Wonder, a 

 noted sow of her day. The family of Sen- 

 sations came prominently before the gen- 

 eral public at the 1915 Nebraska Fair, 

 when under year boars by Sensation Won- 

 der 2nd won 1st, 2nd, 4th and Junior 

 Championship at the show. Since that 

 time the ascendancy of this line has been 

 rapid and some of the largest boars and 

 some of the best sows of the breed carry 

 this line. 



The line of breeding known since 1912 

 as the Defenders is really an intensifying 

 of the Orion and Colonel blood. This De- 

 fender blood has been linebred and inbred 

 by the McKee Bros., who purchased old 

 Defender in 1913 and have continued to 

 improve and perpetuate this line. They 

 have proven themselves real swine build- 

 ers, and have produced a type peculiar to 

 that blood line and a type that conforms 

 in every particular to the large, stretchy, 



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