Show alm DUROC JERSEY BR BREED EED three essentials essential necessary in establishing herd breeder should have clearly defined ideal in mind and to mate mat ant male main to produce that type lot let pedigree barq care for itself prom from our limited knowledge kilow ledga and experience we conclude that but three things are necessary to enable a breeder to produce a herd of duroc of reasonably similar type wo we place these throe three things in the order ot at their importance its as ability time and money writes the northwest agriculturist in the first place tho the breeder must havo have a clearly donned defined ideal in him bli mind of tho the type of hog he will try ito to produce before ability even will be of any service to him and wo we are free to admit that as aa far as ai we know this thir ideal hog has novel made its ita escape in the flesh from the mind of any breeder as yet leastwise wo we have never seen been or heard beard ol of its having been at any of our shows with this ideal firmly fixed in nil him minds mind s eye he Is now ready to ex arcise his ability to first select animals of his ideal type and ana secondly to mato mate them so ao as to produce this type types as nearly as possible that there are many many per pen sons engaged in the rearing of du roce who lack this ability Is pain fully evident as one visits the various herds scattered abroad in the land these persons can be divided into two classes those who are just raising hogs bogs to get as many and as aa largo large ones as an they can regardless of 0 aught else and who should be called meat producers only while the other class seemingly intent on mate mat ing so as to got get as many high sounding bounding names on one pedigree as possible with the sole sale ambition of booming things or making a high public sale average with no regard to type or can very properly ber called speculators the true fi breeder reeder Is he who Is over ever working toward the desired end of producing the perfect or idea doa type ile he does not mate pedigrees pedigreed grees he mates type and lets the pedigrees pedigreed grees take care of themselves being fully aware that it ho he can produce the individual excellence the pedigree wilt will be all right however it may read no matter what his bis ability the person just starting in to breed du race will find ample use for all the skill he may possess with conditions as thuy they are at present almost as many different types as there are hogs there Is a great opportunity for the aspiring breeder to show what he can do |