OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 147 
A BERKSHIRE BARON 
59. The development of swine interests at the International 
Livestock Show laid almost exclusively during the first 
seventeen exhibitions in the hands of Mr. ANDREW J. Loveyoy, 
charter member of the International Association and one time 
president. He was born December 5, 1844, and reared on River- 
side Farm, flanking the little Rock River, near Roscoe, Ill. Of 
robust frame, he spent his early years on the farm and assisted 
his father in the agricultural operations then customary in 
Winnebago. When twenty-one years of age, he went to Chicago 
where he obtained employment as a driver of a notion wagon. 
This outfit soon developed into a huge four horse truck from 
which he did a prosperous business across northern Illinois. 
While on the road he found plenty of opportunity to think about 
farming and rural problems, so when he became connected with 
a wholesale drygoods concern in Chicago, he laid away from 
his savings the money with which to buy the family home. As he 
was possessed of a keen eye for those characteristics that denote 
strong breeding, he chose the Berkshire for his chief breed on 
the farm, and purchased a boar and sow as foundations, for 
$50. He advertised extensively and succeeded in developing 
breeding animals that justified the claims of his advertisements. 
In the early years of the International he made consistently 
strong shows, winning the grand championship in 1901 on his 
boar Combination. This winning gave him a reputation that 
attracted a numerous clientele of buyers to his farm. He was 
selected by showyard managers to judge swine, and breeders’ 
and farmers’ organizations chose him to address their meetings. 
He became a contributor to the farm journals and a valued 
lecturer before agricultural college students. In 1902 his annual 
auction developed an average of $107.75 per head, at that time 
the highest average ever attained by the breed. 
