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at eight years of age, to Enoch Farms for ^5000. The dimax on 

 high prices with the Duroc-Jersey took place in August, 19 19, 

 when Ira Jackson of Ohio sold at private sale to H. L. White, 

 Columbia, Mississippi, the boar Jackson's Orion King 134009 

 for ^31,600, the top price for a Duroc-Jersey. There have been 

 many public sales in which the average price paid was very high. 

 In November, 191 1, at the sale of H. E. Browning of Illinois, 

 35 head sold for an average price of 1^303.65. At a sale held 

 at the International Live-Stock Exposition in December, 19 18, 

 Professor H. W. Mumford, owner of Brookwater Farm herd of 

 Michigan, sold 55 head for an average of ^428, the top price for 

 a sow being $2225. In February, 1919, at the sale of Ira Jackson 

 of Ohio, 54 sows averaged ^1018, and i boar. Jack's Top King 

 1 2372 1 a, by Orion Cherry King, sold to J. B. Goodbar, Forest 

 Hill, Tennessee, for ^10,500. The highest-priced sow sold for 

 $3500 and the lowest for $500. 



The distribution of the Duroc-Jersey is now very widespread. 

 It has attained its greatest popularity in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, although it is generally getting a 

 foothold in the corn belt. The breed is also rapidly growing in favor 

 in the South, especially in Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Virginia. Duroc-Jerseys are not so well known on 

 the Pacific coast as the Berkshire, although there are excellent 

 herds in this region. The breed has a slight representation in 

 Canada, but does not gain much in favor, for, as has been said, 

 Canadians prefer a bacon-type hog. 



Organizations to promote Duroc-Jersey pigs date back to 1883, 

 when the American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders' Association 

 was established, the first annual meeting being held at Chicago, 

 November 15-16, 1883, at which time Colonel F. D. Curtis of 

 New York was elected president and C. H. Holmes of Iowa, 

 secretary. In 1885 this association published its first herd record, 

 since which time, to 1920, fifty volumes have been issued, includ- 

 ing the registration of about 68,000 boars and 150,000 sows. 

 On November 20, 1891, the National Duroc-Jersey Record Asso- 

 ciation was organized at Geneseo, Illinois, with J. M. Stonebraker 

 of Illinois as president and G. W. Philippo of Illinois as secretary- 

 treasurer. This association published Volume I of its herd record 



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