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Show Hybrid Hogs Produce Super Meat Development of a super meat yielding hybrid hog by the application appli-cation of the same inbreeding methods meth-ods that produced hybrid corn is the goal of farm authorities. Thirteen state experiment stations are cooperating in what is known as the Regional Swine Breeding laboratory, George A. Montgomery writes in Capper's Farmer. They are inbreeding some of the more popular breeds with the hope of establishing superior types. In this they are following the methods of those who developed inbred parent stock for modern hybrid corn. "The hog men are little further advanced in their program than corn men were 15 or 20 years ago," Mr. Montgomery points out. "They have their inbreds. but the work of main in his herd: 1. Sows must be able to produce large litters of live pigs. 2. A high percentage of pigs born alive must survive to market age. 3. Pigs must gain rapidly from birth to market weight. 4. Feed requirements re-quirements for each unit of gain must be low. 5. Body form must be such as to produce high yields of the most desirable cuts of pork. "He has succeeded in fixing the last three characteristics so some of his lines and crosses of these lines excel purebred Polands that have been propagated by ordinary breeding methods. However, inbreeding in-breeding lowers vitality and, to a lesser extent, fertility, and crossing two unrelated inbred lines of the same breed does not produce the hybrid vigor that comes when two breeds are crossed. Winters ex- X " v v s - - 4 ing started the waste paper salvage drive in the United States. They focused fo-cused national attention on the crucial cru-cial manpower shortage in war industries in-dustries and early in the war received re-ceived the government's thanks for this work. At one bond auction McNeill Mc-Neill sold $1,114,000 worth of war bonds at the swank Winnetka district. dis-trict. For this he received a treasury treas-ury citation. M.c. Don Mc.eill is an honorary honor-ary sergeant major at Fort Sheridan Sheri-dan and a reserve recruiting official in the marines. He was recently awarded the degree of Doctor of Frustration by the BosweD institute. His greatest honor, however, he says, is the thousands of letters received re-ceived from his fans. The host of the Breakfast C'.uh was born in Galena, 111., Deceit' cr 23, 1907. That should mak.- nim 38 years old, but he ir.sis.s that he is only 28. Several years later the McNeill Mc-Neill family moved to Sheboygan, Wise, where Don attended high i school. There is no record of any I previous schooling. He gained fame in high school by winning a fly-swatting fly-swatting contest. In 1925, he found his way to Milwaukee and enrolled j in the college of journalism at ! Marquette university, where he ! edited the student newspaper and tooted a snazzy saxophone. His per-I per-I sonal representative, Jimmy Ben-! Ben-! nett, says that the success of both I ventures can be determined by the fact that he is no longer employed as a footer of saxophones or a news-i news-i paper editor. ; In 1928 he secured a job on a Mil- i waukee radio station, announcing programs, directing programs, rid- ing gain in the control room, rounding round-ing up guest speakers, editing the station's publicity releases and an- . swering the telephone. He was paid $10 a week, which was later increased in-creased to $15 a week. When he recently re-cently signed a new five-year contract con-tract with the Blue Network, it was at a figure slighly above what he was getting at Milwaukee. After receiving his Ph.B degree he decamped to Louisville, where he became one of the Two Professors, Profes-sors, a comedy team over WHAS. In 1933 he went to Chicago, took over the not-too-well-known Pepper Pot program and developed the present Breakfast Club. Ever since Pearl Harbor, the Breakfast club calendar has been crowded with extra - curricuiar activities. The entire cast has appeared ap-peared before hospitals and camps. They have appeared at the Great Lakes training station on several occasions. When D-Day broke, Don McNeill was on the way to the studio. He cleared the way for the omission ol commercials, had patriotic music played and offered up a prayer. The order was to stand by for news flashes and the prayer, which was written 15 minutes before air lime. yew type Minnesota hybrid hog. combining them to see which ones nick has hardly started. Minnesota and Iowa, for example, have crossed inbred lines of Poland Chinas, with certain elements in the results highly encouraging; others distinctly disappointing. "At the Minnesota station, Dr. M. L. Winters, working with Poland Chinas, has saved only individuals that best combine five economically economical-ly desirable characteristics. To re- plains that this is because the base is too narrow. "Work done at the Minnesota station with ordinary purebred boars bears out this theory. A cross of a purebred boar of one breed with a purebred sow of another an-other gave pigs that were superior i to either parent breed. The cross-! cross-! bred gilts, mated to a purebred ! boar of a third breed were still bet-I bet-I ter than a two-breed cross. "If Winters' beliefs are borne out. I a farmer of the future may start, I for example, with sows obtained by crossing the best line of inbred j Polands that come out of Minne- sota's experiments on the fastest line of Hampshires developed at the j Illinois Experiment station. These j would then be bred to an inbred : Duroc boar from the line developed at the Ohio station. Gilts of that j line might be mated to an inbred Berkshire, after which the producer j might go to a Hampshire boar and ; continue thereafter the Hampshire- Poland-Duroc-Berkshire rotation. |