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excellent feeding and maturing qualities. The stock from Jeffries 

 and Atwood were blended together along with the common white 

 pigs of the region, and from this has come the first strain, if it 

 may be so termed, of the Chester White blood. 



The adoption of the name " Chester White " for this breed of 

 swine is said to have come about in the following manner.^ Uncle 

 Bennie Hickman, in 1848, made the comment that at the various 



Fig. 344. Combination's Defender 29509, a noted Chester White show boar 

 and sire owned by A. G. Satre, Stanhope, Iowa. From photograph, by courtesy 



of Mr. Satre 



fairs he had attended he noticed that all of the hogs but those 

 he regarded as the best had names given them, so he proposed 

 that the best ones be called Chester County Whites. Mr. Atwood 

 took exception to this, claiming that the best hogs were from 

 Delaware County. As these gentlemen could ,^not agree upon the 

 name, the advice of Aaron Clements was souglit, who suggested 

 that the winner of the most prizes at the Baltimore and Richmond 

 fairs should give the name. This was agreed to, but upon their 



1 Booklet No. 4, Chester White Swine Record Association, July i, 1915. 

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