Show titan queen worlds largest duroe duroc jersey interesting story of growth of colorado sow now how the woride largest sow titan queen registered duroc jersey owned by the colorado agricultural college was built up to her present phenomenal weight of 1123 pounds in the past eight months la Is an interesting esting story as told by it B broad chief herdsman for the college who has had bad personal charge of the task the huge sow Is also the largest du roe jersey hog in the world titan queen was purchased at the th international live stock exposition la chicago last december by the colorado school with the idea of building her to a record weight she weighed 8 10 pounds at that time the same weight she had registered at the national swine show in 1927 when she was th the largest elargest duroc sow shown mr broad began feeding the big sow on a mixture of 60 per cent corn 25 per cent oats 7 per cent 6 5 per cent alfalfa meal and 2 per cent linseed meal broad believes that the alfalfa meat meal which helped to complete the balancing of the ration was largely responsible for starting restarting re titan queens growth after she was brought to colorado from illinois where she was raised this ration was continued until march 4 when it was changed to all the whole corn she could eat and all the skim shim milk she could drink in addition she had access to a mixture of five pounds of two and one half pounds of alfalfa meal and two and one half pounds of linseed meld in a self feeder until april 17 alien slie she weighed 1025 pounds broad says that no special treatment was given the alie sow she measures 9 feet 4 inches from the up of her er nose to the tip of her tall 88 J inches in circumference around tho the heart 84 inches around the flank 40 46 inches in height and 10 inches around I 1 the smallest part of her hind leg |