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weights will impress many as quite extreme and rarely reached 

 with one year's development. The following noted Berkshire 

 boars have been credited with the weights given against their 

 names: Longfellow 16835 at seventeen months, 726 pounds; 

 Lord Premier 50001 at seven years, 890 pounds ; Lord Premier's 

 Successor 1 6 1 500 weighed 1 000 pounds in show form ; Sensational 

 Masterpiece 135260 in show form, 1000 pounds; Baron's Suc- 

 cessor 197499, grand champion 19 16 International, 860 pounds; 

 King Lee 27500 at ten months, 420 pounds; Longfellow's 

 Double 209000 three 

 hundred and sixty-five 

 days old, 507 pounds. 

 One of the special 

 needs cf the present 

 day is that Berkshires 

 at maturity should 

 show plenty of size 

 and quality. 



The Berkshire as a 

 grazing pig ranks high 

 wherever fairly tried. 

 On the clover fields of 

 the Middle West they 

 thrive to perfection, 

 while rape pasture in 

 the more northerly sec- 

 tions seems well suited 

 to them. In general pasturage in America, Berkshires hold their own. 

 Writing of the Berkshires as foragers. Walker states that they are 

 hardly surpassed when grown in a temperate climate. He says : 



You may see herds of a score or two each, any year towards October, run- 

 ning over the wide stubble fields on the borders of Wiltshire, nearly average 

 pork, and yet they have made their growth and tlieir flesh pretty much on 

 waste material, that is, shed corn, weeds, roots, pasturage, and so on. 



The Berkshire as a feeder has a very creditable record. A 

 number of American agricultural experiment stations have con- 

 ducted feeding trials in which breed comparison was a feature. 

 In twenty-three trials, involving 123 Berkshires fed at eight 

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Fig. 328. Grand Leader 2d 190377, by Superbus 

 136000, grand-champion Berkshire boar at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. 

 A notable recent-day sire, bred by W. A. Corsa, 

 Whitehall, Illinois. Owned and exhibited by A. B. 

 Humphrey, Mayhews, California. From photograph, 

 by courtesy of the Berkshire World 



