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| DEALERS [ANNOUNCE |
I SERIES OF BEEF |
| CATTLE MEETINGS' |
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| TUES., SEPTUS I I
| The Quaker Oats Co., manufacturers - of Ful-O-Pep n
| feeds, and your local FuL-O-Pep dealer announce a =
| series ,of informative meetings for steer feeders. f
| Whether you have cattle on feed or are planning g
| to feed cattle this fall, you will be interested in one |
| of the meetings. |
| Ralph McCall, Beef Cattle Specialist of the Quaker 1
| Oats Co. Ful-O-Pep Research Farm, Barrington, Illi- |
| nois, will be guest speaker. Mr. McCall will discuss g
| the steer feeding outlook and. also cover recent ad- |
| vances in steer feeding research. 1
| There is a meeting scheduled in all locations for i
| the convenience of the farmer. Also these meetings §
| will be held at various times during the day, so that =
| all those interested may attend. For information as 1
| to time and' location of meeting in your area contact g
| your Ful-O-Pep dealer or call Lancaster 5-0523. ||
| At 8:00 P.M. Tuesday Evening the last meeting will =
| be held at Grubb Supply Co.’s Mill, Elizabethtown. g
| J. C. Snavely & Sons, Inc. J. C. Walker & Son s
| Landisville, Gap, Pa. ||
| Grubb Supply Paul M. Kessler & Son g
| Elizabethtown, Pa. Paradise, Pa. g
| George Rutt Ross C. Ulrich =
| Stevens R. D. 1, Pa Peach Bottom, R.D., Pa. s
| Millport Roller Mills D. W. Hoover g
| LitUz R. D. 4, Pa. East Earl, R. D- 1, Pa. =
Chester White HistoryJHolds Link
Xo Lancaster and Chester Counties
T HE CHESTER WHITE
prof. H. Wt Briggs, Okla.
A&M College, Stillwater
The Chester White breed on
nated in Chester County, Penn
r vivania, from which it takes its
r me and the surrounding
counties of Delaware, Philadei-
L,a, and Lancaster. The latter
■ one of the most favorably
!f„own agricultural counties m
L he united States and the whole
general region of southeastern
Pennsylvania is considered fer
tile and productive. The city ol
Philadelphia, located in Phil
adelphia County, naturally pro
vided an early market and en
couraged the raising of num
beis of swine for market pur
poses. Although the breed ori
ginated m Pennsylvania, much
improvement was later made in
Ohio and in the more western
states of "the Corn Belt.
ORIGIN OF THE BREED
Large, coarse, white hogs
weie found in the southeastern
part of Pennsylvania at an early
time m the history of pork pro
duction in the United States. It
is thought that these hogs were
a mixture of the Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, and Cheshire
bieeds. The first two breeds
were of English origin-, whereas
the latter was a strain or breed
that came from Jefferson Coun-
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ty. New York. This intermingling
of blood had. produced hogs
that were long, bony, coarse
and late maturing, and naturally
breeders sought to introduce
blood that would improve the
usefulness of these hogs as pork
producers.
The first real improvement
seems to have been made by
Captain James Jefferies in 18-18 1
and concerning this improve
ment, Chester White iSwine, by
G. E. Day, Cyclopedia of Am
encan Agriculture, edited by L.
H. Bailey, The MacMillan Co.,
*N. Y.,' 1908, comments, “About
the year "'lBlB, Captain James
Jeffries imported from England
a pair of white pigs, which are
spoken of as Bedfordshire pigs,
and as Cumberland pigs. Captain
Jefferies used the boar on the
native white pigs of the district
with good results. Later, it is
stated white Chinese Pigs were
imported to Chester County and
crossed on the native pigs.
Eventually the different strains
of blood were combined, and
from this combination came the
original "Chester White Breed."
This introduction of outside
blood had a great' influence in
refining the hogs of the area
The Bedfordshire hogs were ot
a large and meaty type with
njarked quality and consider
able development through the
ham and side. While they were
primarily white in color, they
did have some black spots on
the hair and skin. The ears were
large and drooping. The Chinese
hogs were about the same kind
that had been used in the im
provement of the Poland China
and were a weak, broad-backed
variety that fattened readily but
lacked some m trimness of jowl
and general attractiveness. They,
too, were white, although they
had some black or sandy spots.
Their ears were large and droop
ing. Other less known strains ot
hogs also were used to aid in
the development of the breed.
After the introduction of out
side blood had made consider
able improvement in the hogs
of the area, they were common-
Appropo for a history of the Chester ‘i
White is this trim champion shown at the
recent Lancaster-Lebanon Counties 4H
Pig Club Roundup at the Lancaster Stock J
ly referred to as “Chester Coun
ty Whites”, but in later years
“county” was dropped from the
name
Improvement And Expansion
Of The Breed
Thomas Wood began in 1856
to publicize the Chester White
hogs by exhibiting them at vari
ous Fairs and Exhibitions
through the eastern part of the
United States This did much to
call the attention of the public
to the improved white swine.
E. B. Ashbridge of West Ches
ter, Pennsylvania began breed
ing and exhibiting hogs in 1848
md continued active in the af
fairs of the breed until 1884.
’ The Todd family of Wakeman,
Ohio, became associated with
he Chester White and develop-
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MUSSER FARMS, INC.
R. D. 2. Columbia, Pa.
DAVID B. HURST
Bowmansville, Pa
WEST WILLOW FARMERS
ASSOC.
West Willow, Pa,
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Friday Sept, 14, 1&56 Lancaster Farming—s
Champ A Chester White
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ed a strain of breed that car
ried their name. Two brothers,
Kneeland and Isaac Todd, secur
ed' a boar in 1834 of the “Nor
folk Thin Rind” strains from
Connecticut; these hogs ot
breeding had been introduced
into Connecticut from England
about 182 T This boar and sow
of the “Grass” were said to have
been desirable Joseph Haskins
moved from Massachusetts to
Wakeman, Ohio, and brought
with him a good pair ot white
mgs, the boar was similar to
the Byfield strain but the sow
was similar to the hogs already
raised by the Todds. The Todd
and Haskins hogs were crossed
and recrossed.
Later Isaac Todd purchased a
boar of the so-called “Large
Grass” strain and used him on
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Yards by Robert Graybill, Manheim. The
champion sold at $6O cwt (Lancaster Far
ming Staff Photo).
his sows, several years later he
secured a boar ot the so-called
“Normandy” strain, and he, too,
was used in the herd The latter
boar was thought to have come
from a strain of hogs originally
brought over from France In
1865 Isaac Todd introduced the N
first Chester White blood into
the herd, and his son, S. H,
Todd, made further use of Ches
ter White breeding and remained
as a until lyi*. Tlnough
carelul selection and consequent
improvement the Todd hogs be
came known as Todd’s Improv
ed Chester White, although prior
to the introduction ot the Ches
ter blood, they were referred to
as the Todd’s Hog. For many
years the hogs developed by the
R. W. HOLLINGER & SONS,
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(Continued on page 12)
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Atglen, Pa.
A. L. KERR & BRO.
,Quany\ille, Pa.