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York, or imported from England, concerning which point there is 

 doubt. Mr. Kelsey owned the famous stalUon Duroc, and the pigs 

 in question were known simply as red pigs. Mr. Frink called his 

 boar and descendants Durocs, in honor of the horse. This boar 

 was crossed on common sows, and many of the offspring resem- 

 bled him, being long and deep of body, lop-eared, heavy of shoulder 

 and ham, quiet of disposition, and making rapid growth. The 

 Durocs were finer in bone and carcass than the Jersey Reds. In 

 1830 William Ensign of Stillwater, Saratoga County, secured a 



Fig. 333. Orion Chief 13333, ^ champion Duroc-Jersey boar at the Louisiana 



Purchase Exposition. A great sire of brood sows. Bred by Ira Jackson of Ohio, 



and sold to Thomas Johnson, Columbus, Ohio, for $3500. From photograph, by 



courtesy of the National Stockman and Farmer 



pair of red pigs from Connecticut, where they were known as 

 Red Berkshires. The following year he purchased still more, and 

 from then on for some years was an active breeder and distributor 

 of Durocs-. The Frink and Ensign families of Durocs became 

 very popular. 



The origin of the Duroc-Jersey pig is the result of the amal- 

 gamation of the blood of these early red breeds or families. 

 Colonel F. D. Curtis of Saratoga County, New York, long a 

 breeder and familiar with existing conditions, did much to pro- 

 mote improvement of this breed during the stage of amalgama- 

 tion. Mr. William H. Holmes also was a leading breeder and 

 improver in Colonel Curtis's time. The Durocs of New York, the 



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