1^^ U HDH OF THE ^ AMPSHIRE BREED New fork hate (QoUege af AsticuUutc j^t (Sorncll Iniocraitg Jtltata. ». 1- Cornell University Library SF 392.H23 (The) "blue book" of the Hampshire breed 3 1924 003 225 574 '/I®, Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924003225574 THE "BLUE BOOK" OF THE HAMPSHIRE BREED A Hampshire Directory and Year Book • PUBLISHED BY THE HAMPSHIRE DIRECTORY AND YEAR BOOK COMPANY INCORPORATED 409 WISCONSIN AVENUE .^iMmi^' PEORIA, ILL. :: Copyright 1920 By the Hampshire Directory and Year Book Company Incorporated Q'^ j'iiiPijF liV'^iiiiii'PiiBjfiiMi.ir j! ;i:fi!i'ii';i!ii;i;ii;!'! xn^^irrjwsi, :mMMfmM^idMim J9U John cooDWWE^iy^i^ ^rand champion over, All breed5,botm alive and in the dressed CARCASS CONTEST. iNTEI^NATtOWU. LrmESTOCK^ Show - 1901 I9JS nhe I^ii^Sun 1919 1Q70 WW" Md^Ti:::"mmx::^:inum^jmmm rJim.::nK DEDICATION TO E. C. STONE Secretary of the Americari Hampshire Record Association — who assumed a protectorship over the faint sparks of hope of the Hampshire Breed in 1903 when there were only 445 Hampshire Hogs recorded and brought it to its present prominent position as one of the leading Breeds in the whole Swine World — this volume is dedicated in recognition of the work he has done. —Editor. i HAMPSHIRE DIRECTORY AND YEAR BOOK COMPANY INCORPORATED OFFICERS E. C. STONE, President F. F SILVER Vice President and Treasurer E M. HARSCH, Secretary EDITOR AND MANAGER E. M. HARSCH WT'iiiMinniiimiiiii iimii nil n il ll lll l lllll l l HIIWH 'mil liiiMILll^^g^ TmTTn|| || | || | || || ||| |||| ||| lllimillllimillll I II I ! i l li iinimjiiig ' HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES OP THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAMPSHIRE BREED OF HOGS WITH A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN HAMPSHIRE SWINE RECORd ASSOCIATION. BY E. C. STONE Secretary of the American Hampshire Swine Record Association (Written, Beginning April 1920) INTRODUCTION'^^' DELIEVING that every good citizen should assume at -'-' least one or more great responsibilities, and that a worthy record of these responsibilities should be left to the memory of any life that has been spent in worthy work, I have undertaken to write the history of what I believe to be the greatest breed of hogs in the world; the one which has already within less than a score years molded the types of all the breeds. I have undertaken to write this history commencing on my 46th Anniversary, and in the beginning of the ninety-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the Hampshire hog into America. The present progress of the Hampshire breed of hogs has already in a historic way proven that one's life spent in their promotion, has been one of the worthiest of oc- cupations. I have tried to act and conduct all of my personal affairs in life in such a manner, that the monu- ment to my life should be the highest stage of perfection of this great breed of hogs, that could be accomplished in the period of one man's life. My friends have been kind enough to state that I am the one person fitted to write the history of America's greatest breed of hogs, and I am willing to state here and now, th^t this history will be true and correct to the best of my ability from its earliest known ancestry in Scotland, practically two hundred years ago, up to and including the records of all of the great fairs of 1920. There shall be no favors for friends and no slanting remarks at those who have opposed our progress; but as true and perfect a history as my educa- tion, informatioji, life's work and imagit^ation can picture to the many friends who have declared themselves interested in the work of my life, which has been the building and the promotion of the Hampshire breed of hogs. This history will picture many interesting events; it will cover some of the adver- sities and troublesome stages of our progress, and will finish with a glory and a record that has never been owned in any portion of the world's history by any other breed. I realize that this is the greatest task that I have ever undertaken and possibly will be of the greatest value of any service that I have ever under- taken for the American public, with the maximurn of assistance to each man who owns a Hampshire hog, or for that matter is in any way interested in the advancement of livestock in America, or the world. This history and the entire "Blue Book" is being published with the sole thoijght and whole intention of being of assistance to every owner of live- stock, and to the least and greatest of the owners of Hampshires. It will be instructive, .enlightening, invigorating and essential to the farther progress -_^u iiii iiii i iii in i iH i i i i ii iii ii i i i ii mii ii iiiiii i in ii i i ii iiiii iMii i ii i i i iii iii i i m of our breed. Our whole interest is centered upon improvement and ad- vancement, without the thought of pecuniary remuneration. With these thoughts, I recommend to you this publication which rep- resents my life work and which I realize is necessary not only to the prog- ress of the Hampshire breed, but to the progress of the Live Stock Industry of the world. My best wish f^r your success. \^yC..^me legends would have it that this breed of hogs perhaps might have rorae from the breeding operations of some of the wealthy families in North- ern Holland, who produced the belted cattle of our present day, also belted rabbits, belted goats and belted guinea pigs. We have exhausted every avenue of historic research, but we have never been able to find a connecting link to substantiate this legendary imagination of importation from Holland lo Germany and Germany to England, but we have been able to make his- toric conm-rtions bearing out the fact that this old English breed on acccount lit the belting fancy of the wealthy aristocrats in Northern Holland \\as in- troduced into Holland, by securing some of these belted animals from the liritish Isles. Therefore, we are led to believe the original home of the present day Hampshire hog was a home on the British Isles. Snrne of our friends, also are inclined to call this breed of hogs the American Hampshire Swine breed. Such a statement is certainly very dis- courteous to their ancestry, and to the inhabitants of the blritish Isles of iiKire than one hundred years ago, who in reality founded this breed and brought it into prominence for the same reason that it is very prominent in America today. Some breeders of hogs are willing to state that they have a pure American hog, but if history exerts itself to the utmost it is almost impossible to find a breed of hogs that in its early ancestry was not more or less directly or indirectly a descendant of this Hampshire breed known early in its American history as the Mclvee hog, or in Canada as the Saddleback, and still earlier possibly, as the McKay hog, as it was a man by the name of McKay, according to letters and newspaper publications, who imported these hogs from England to America as early as 182.5. They were landed in ilassachusetts. A\'e have not been able to trace a direct shipment of this same breed of lio^s from England into Canada, but nevertheless they were brouglit, apparently in their pure stage of develop- ment as the "Old English Dreed," from the British Isles Uj Canada, and by some they were called the Ringneck hog. and by others the Saddleback. I l-'HOTOGRAPH OF TwELVE--\luNTHS-OLD <.BpTiiuiiiu»iimiinMiuiu^^^ , 13 The Hampshire does not possess this tough thick skin, that is absolute- ly unnecessary on a pood hog. On account of the reasonable thinness of the skin of a Hampshire hog, and the closeness of the lean to the skin, came the name "Thin Rind," a nickname given by the Cincinnati butcher. Other stories have it that it is due to the thin layer of fat between the lean and the skin of the hog, while yet others claim the hog was so called on account of the lack of toughness in the skin, or rind itself. Now you may take them for what they are worth. They were called "Thin Rind" on account of their pleasing appearance to the Cincinnati butcher, and naturally they became known in Boone County, Ky., as the "Thin Rind," even though at the same time they were known in southern Ohio as the "McGee" hog, and in the ter- - ritory around Louisville as the "McKay" hog, and in New York as the "Saddleback." The Record Association was founded in Boone County, Kk-, hence the name "Thin Rind" was attached to the Record Association, be- cause it was the name these hogs were known by in that locality. The early records of the Hampshire Record Association did not give the date when the hogs were recorded. In fact, the records kept for the first 158 hogs that were recorded were so meager it was even a little difficult to make out their pedigrees. The writer of this article became secretary when there were 445 hogs recorded. From 158 to 445 the records were very complete, as the Record Association had purchased standardized blanks and was keeping accurate record. THE SPREAD OF HAMPSHIRES INTO THE VARIOUS STATES. We think it will be quite interesting to give a list of the owners and the date they made their purchases in herd books No. 1 and 2. While hogs re- corded in Kentucky were purchased at dates prior to those in Ohio, the State of Ohio has the honor of recording the first hogs in what has now be- come the herd book of the American Hampshire Swine Record Association. The first hogs recorded in Kentucky were recorded by John H. Aylor, at that time of Gun Powder, Ky., (now of Florence, Ky.). The next by Eldred Conrad of Williamstown, Ky., and the next by J. L. Bailey, Lexington, Ky., son-in-law of John S. Phelps, of Lexington, Ky. Following these some were recorded by our late friend, J. E. Rouse, who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hampshire Record Association continuously with the ex- ception of one year, from the time of the organization of the Hampshire Record Association until his death. The next to record from Kentucky was R. O. Smith, Union, Ky., then F. M. Hpwlett, Big Bone, Ky., and D. B. Garriot, Carrollton, Ky. At the death of J. L, Bailey, his father-in-law, John S. Phelps, purchased the herd and kept it up in its entirety. The early history of Kentucky hogs, so far as establishing a type and standard is concerned, came largely from the herds of John H. Aylor, J. L. Bailey, John S. Phelps, J. E. Rouse, and D. B. Garriot. Eldred Conrad was a large tobacco grower, and permitted other interests to prevent him from giving the attention that would have proved profitable to him in swine pro- duction. The men we have named thus far all recorded pedigrees in the Hamp- shire herd book immediately after the record was founded. Later Hughes Atkinson became Kentucky's foremost breeder, recording and selling as many hogs as all the other breeders combined for a period. After some subsequent expansion there was an increase of those in Kentucky who owned registered Hampshires in Volumes 1 and 2. This later list is as follows: E. H. Blankenbaker, Florence; Ephram Tanfler, Gun Powder; Hubert Grady, Grant; E. Futrell, Lone Oak; R. L. Mosely, Fairview; W. H. Rouse, Burl- ington; J. E. Scott, Pine Grove; James Railey, Hebron; B. Donaldson, Car- rollton; F. A. McCoy, Eminence; Geo. E. Rouse, Limaburg; H. G. Stevens, Nuckols; S. J. Mullikin, Oxford; J. E. Priest, Hebbard^ville; W. C. Brown, gniiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiumii iiiM| | |||| || | | N | |||| | | |||| iiiMiiniiiimiiiiiiii MiMiiiMi|iI^^gUq iiiiilii l ll illll ll l l l lll l ll lM ll l l lllll l ll l l ll lll l l lil M ll l l l l l lll ll ll jmumUlilif ' 14 Eminence; H. H. Drane, Eminence; M. F. Goodridge, Ballardsville; T. P. Dickinson, Glasgow; W. M. Jones, Becknersville; R. M. Garrett, Carlisle, J. W. Simpson, Nealton; Drane & Boulware, Eminence; Howard Mahanes, Lexington; J. D. Robertson, Bethlcham; John W. McDaniel, Warsaw; Dr. J. W. Todd, Fredonia; T. Scott Mayes, Springfield; W. P. Ford, Owington; J. M. Craven, Limaburg; J. S. Surface, Gun Powder; S. A. Stivers, Buechel; T. H. Atkinson, Mt. Sterling; Ira Litchfield, Hopkinsville; B. J. Mitchell, Lex- ington; W. Mack Miller, Bloomfield; J. M. Utz, Union; Patterson & Rouse, Paynes Depot; Labe Riddle, Mt. Sterling; B. H. Snyder, Florence; J. D. Warner, Owingsville; Joe Cray croft, Sharpsburg; L. C. & J. E. Riddell, Estill Springs and Irvine; Mrs. Mamie Cook, Cecilian; Utz Bristol, Union, J. A. Conn, Lancaster; Jack Johnson, Harron^burg; R. E. Brock & Son, Sandus; Wal Crawford, Millwood; M. M. Hamilton, Richmond; L. G. Hubble, Hub- ble; W. M. Jones, Winchester; L. M. Scott, Cambellsburg; W. F. Bradford, Limaburg; Mrs. Mabel Mylor, Warsaw; Mark Henshaw, Henshaw; Nitz & Bristo, Union, and Herbert Rouse, Limaburg. While the American Thin Rind Record Association was organized in 1893, there were only 445 hogs recorded up to and including April 20, 1903, for a period of practically eleverf years. However, during that time there was some publicity given the breed, and they began to spread out, first into Ohio. The first hogs registered that were owned in Ohio as has been prev- iously noted, were purchased by Z. D. Haines of Xenia, Ohio, as early as 1889. The records in herd book No. 1 show that these animals and. their produce were recorded from No. 1 to No. 8 inclusive in the founding of the book. Others who got into the game in Ohio, with year of their purchases, were as follows: Perry Schultz, Oxford, 1897; Anson Baugn, So. Solon, 1897; A. Crawford, Columbus Grove, 1898; E. J. Sndlenbarger, Payne, 1898; Absalom Fisher, Payne, 1898; J. A. Miller, Mt. Orab, 1900; Frank L. Roth, Zone, 1901; J. C. Brosieu, Buckland, 1901; John W. Wuichet and C. E. Davis, Dayton, 1902; Benj. Weaver, Trail, 1903; G. H. Dodds, Hepburn, 1904. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 from Ohio, but who came in at a later date, are as follows: G. W. Smith, Antwerp; W. A. Shafer, Hamilton; B, H. Klemann, Ottawa; T. C. Whitney, Oberlin; J. H. Hampshire, Bowling Green; M. B. Weaver, Dundee; H. D. Boynton, Bryan; A. P. Daily, Sabina; Jacob Mougey, Wooster; O. C. Zederker, Maplewood; M. M. Oglesbee, Xenia; Grant W. Kinley, Upper Sandusky; J. H. Upp, Greenfield; Frank Freese, Trio; L. P. Luttrell, Octa; C. C. Willett, Lynch- burg; H. H. Lamborn, Cadiz; J. G. Curtis, Sidney; A. C. Ewing, Mt. Cory; S. A. Traxler, Lunkle; Wm. Arthur, Leesburg; J. C. George, Venedocia; F. S. Whitney, Wellington; E. E. Bish, Fostoria; Fred Hardy, Leesburg; E. Harkey Miller, West Cairo; Geo. D. Gray, Chillicothe; Orville Grose, Mont- pelier; Chas. Johnson, Winesburg; Ohio State University, Columbus; Price & Hills, Radnor; Andrew Grim, Bryan; M. E. Sinn, Hicksville; J. W. Kelin- henz, Chichasaw; T. O. McLaughlin, Chagrin Falls; S. A. Raub, LaRue; Willie Tredwig, Circleville; Tracy Oswalt, Delaware; Geo. Biggerstaflf, Rad- nor; Wat. Watkins, Prospect; Chas. Morris, Radnor, and W. H. Getrost Hicksville. ' West Virginia next came in turn among the early numbers of hogs re- corded. P. W. Inskeep of Moorcfield, W. Va., purchased as early as 1893, hogs that were recorded as Nos. 30, 31, and 32, and the following year pur- chased Nos. SS, 100, 101, and 240. While J. Ward Wood of Lost River, W. Va., made his first purchases in 1895. Our hogs did not, howevtr, spread to Virginia until late in 1904, and then this was due to publicity and advertising done by the writer of this article. In fact, he sold to every one of the seven owners in Virginia and West Virginia, making their st-art up to and including June 20^ 1907. Those who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Virginia were: A. I INll ll l llll lNl l lll l l llll l l l lll l lllll lll l l lllll l lll iiiiiiiiNiiii'i imjggggg Trm i i i ii ii iiii iiiii i ii i i iii i i iii i m i i iii i i i iiiiii iii ii i i i ii iiii iiii i i i i n i i i ii iiiii i ii Brooks, Lawson, Upperville; Dr. J. W. Wheat, Upperville; Norfolk & West- ern R. R. Ivor; B. P. Yancy, Yancy, and A. P. Yancy, Yancy. Hog No. 17 in the herd book found its way to the home of D. C. Reed of Woodrow, Pa., almost immediately after the herd book was founded in 1893. Mr. Reed, however, was the only Pennsylvania breeder until the writer commenced to advertise later and made a good many Pennsylvania sales in 1906. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Pennsyl- vania are as follows: L. B. Henson, Coatsville; W. B. Glasgow, McVey- town; H. V. Shaflfner, Orbisonia; David H. Watson, Miffinbury, and J. W. McCombs, Carmichaeis. While it may seem strange to some of our readers, Michigan was the next state in line, making her first investment in 1893. E. P. Oliver, Flint, Mich., bought hog No. 21 in the herd book from John H. Aylor. The sec- ond hog going to Michigan was to T. L. Stewart, Alto, Mich., in 1896, the next going to Michigan in 190S. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Michigan are as follows: S. E. Whiteman, Springport; Geo. Foster, Niles; C. D. Sabin, Hudson; G. W. Goss, Bancroft; John Winn, Jr., Niles; James H. Hall, Port Austin; Raymond Morton, Bangor; A. H. Clement, Pittsford, and A. Stone, Addison. About the same time as the states just mentioned, other than Kentucky s and Ohio, commenced to make a start, the late H. F. Work, of Charles- " town, Ind., made his first purchases on November 6th, 1894, taking home with him hogs recorded from the J. E. Rouse herd as Nos. 62, 63, 64, and, 65. After Mr. Work had made his selections, other animals were recorded from Indiana in quite large numbers in each and every year from then up to the present time. Mr. Work because so actively engaged in the Hampshire bus- iness that he afterward became secretary of the Record Association in the term of office immediately preceding that of the writer of this article and his later days were made very happy by seeing the great progress of the Hampshire' breed. F. L. Obenchain of Twelve Miles, Ind., became the second owner of Hampshires in Indiana, when he secured Nos. 118, 119, 120, and 127. He is one of the very few who strayed from the fold, ahd is now secretary of an- other record association. J. D. Kiger, of Charlestown, Ind., made hig first investment about a year after his neighbor, Mr. Work. Mr. Kiger was quite extensively engaged in the Duroc hog business but put in the Hampshire and later became quite famous, being one of the early large and influential breeders. Others in In- diana having Hampshires recorded in Vols. 1 and 2, with year of purchases, are as follows: S. H. Judy, Greencastle, 189S; L. E. Bottorff, Charlestown, 1896; H. C. Wise, Middletown, 1896; H. L. Nowlin, Lawrenceburg, 1897; Geo. W. Metz, New Point, 1898; Rush G. Budd, Rushville, 1898; Geo. Routh, Max, 1898; J. F. Nichter, Seymour, 1899; Carr Bros., Leipsic, 1899; W. C. Collins, Bainbridge, 1899; J. J. Weissiere, Markle, 1900; Chas. H. Kelso, Anderson- ville, 1900; Wm. Stafford, Scipio, 1900; Orville Apple, Paoli, 1901; D. P. Glass, Fairmont, 1902; J. A. Allen, Covington, 1903; E. J. Walter, Markle, 1903; J. N. Willard, Fairland, 1903; Frank Crawford, State Line, 1904; N. P. Wilson, Richmond, 1904. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Indiana but at a later date are as follows: W. D. Armantrout, Crawfordsville; W. H. Ade, Kentland; G. L. Sever, Kokomo; C. C. Kassebaum, Westfield; Chas. Kurtz, Indianapolis; B. E. Wallace, Peru; Edgar D. Short, Salem; John T. Gregory, Lebanon; Chas. H. Lindsay, Clarks Hill; M. Meyer, Elwood; Henry McMillen, Wagner; R. B. Long, Leesburg; Robt. L. Dorsey, Indian- apolis; Fremont Davis, Columbus; August Batterman, Dyer; Thos. W. Bowen, Coatsville; Willie Essig, Tipton; T. O. Adams, .Elwood; J. B. Ghue, i n ii immimi i i i ii i mi i i ii iiiiiiii i i iiii i imiMi iiiliiiliJMiiiiiiiMiiiiMiuL^^ MTmmfn jNIlllllllllinimiJIimtllllll^ 16 3Ife»i ^Mhirc^ Colfax; C. O. Robertson, Tunneltown; N. R. Lewis, Gas City; Wm. F. My- ers, Ft. Wayne; Sherman Dwiggins, Waynestown; M. T. Harris, Thorn- town; C. P. Moody, Rensselaer; A. M. Wilson, Rochester; C. S. Schultz, Poland; A. S. Monsey, Columbia City; A. S. Mourey, Columbia City; J. N. Fischer, Waldron; W. W. Watson, Lewisville; F. T. Mangrum, Ft. Branch; S. V. Garrett, Leesburg; A. L. Kint, Brookston; Thad Snow, Greenfield; Fred Kremt, Indianapolis; H. L. Gerloff, McGregor; L. M. Huff, New Castle; J. R. Gochenour, Whitestown; Jas. Shaw, Shelbyville; J. B. Strange, Marion; C. A. Vestal, Elwood; Walter D. Knox, Center Point; Fred E. Hudelson, Dunreith; A. Luther, Fairland; T. B. Pifer, Greenfield; J. Crouch & Son, La- Fayette; F. Colten, Manilla; Louis Reichert, Evansville; C. S. Mumma, De- catur, and W. H. Metzger, Peru. Illinois was the next in line in ownership of Hampshire, or Thin Rind breeding stock, and more than doubled the number of owners in any other state before the end of Vol. 2. The first in Illinois was L. E. Van Arsdale & Co., Raritan, 111., purchasing March 25, 1896. The next was John Goodwine, Jr., Potomac, 111., making his first venture February 1, 1897. Mr. Goodwine became one of the leaders of the Hampshire breed, and was noted in a na- tional way because of his exhibits at the International Livestock Show, and because of assisting the writer of this article in getting the breed class- ified at a number of the state fairs, county fairs, and the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904. Other purchasers in the early history of Illinois with year of purchases, were: J. M. Houston, Raritan, 1898; J. H. Daubard, Pleasant Plains, 1899; Geo. S. Johnston, Heyworth, 1899; T. J. Pifer, Palestine, 1899; D. S. Mayhew, Aledo, 1900; James Goodwine, Jamesburg, 1901; W.'R. Allen, Rossville, 1902; N. M. Rogers, Lawrenceville, 1902; E. C. Stone, Armstrong, 1902; Wm. Blackford, Potomac, 1903; Lefever Bros., Oblong, 1903; Fred Goodwine, Potomac, 1903; John Cossairt, Potomac, 1903; J. J. Duncan, Potomac, 1903; Geo. Smith, Potomac, 1903; Bliss & McLean, Hillsboro; 1904; Ora Coon, Rossville, 1904; Ira Blackford, Potomac, 1904; M. E. Randall, Augusta, 1904. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Illinois are as follows: Geo. Statt, Roseville; J. H. Smith, Geneseo; A. M. Lawyer, Tennessee; M. L, Hunt, Colchester; Mike Sharp, Coal Valley; L. B. Bacon, Chrisman; W. J. Casper, Brunside; W. B. Hartman, Naperville; A. L. Good- enough, Morrison; J. H. Knight, Dow; C. L. Johnson, Fiatt; C. A. Moore, Canton; Grant & Smith, Winchester; Irwin Moore, Canton; T. P. Chester, Champaign; J. E. Stickle, Bushnell; A. S. Hartman, Tuscola; Ezra Williams Timewell; W. T. Folgatt, Red Oak; C. H. Bushburn, Hinckley; Phillip Hicks, Burlington; L. C. Miller, Canton; Mrs. John Smith, Neponset; John Smith, Princeton; T. W. Quick, Hillsdale; E. C. Hume, Verona; C. H. Moon, Morris; A. S. Omer, Clayton; Mrs. W. F. Bowen, Neponset; Everett Calvin, Huntsville; J. W. Danner, Industry; W. L. Carter, Jacksonville; Mrs. E. F. Nooton, Neponset; E. M. Young, Penfield; J. W. Kinneer, Augusta; S. L. Tracy, Morrison; C. & F. Goodman, Tuscola; A. P. Bowman, Grayville; J. H. Wheelock, Hull; J. A. Baker, Taylorville; Geo. Lippert, Magnolia; Hu- burger & WilHams, Scales Mound; Frank Morrill & Co., Niota; J. W. Walt- ers, Wyoming; Wilsie Williams, Mt. Vernon; C. & J. Wileman, Ipava; J. W. Luther, Sadorus; Howard Helmick, Farmer City; W. F. Goodspeed, Tuscola J. R. Kelley, Armington; Dr. A, P. Asp, Moline; W. B. Fowler, Rochelle Geo. W. Fithian, Newton; P. M. Luedke, Sigel; Wood & Westcott, Sheffield S. W. Newlon, Muncie; Wm. Burrows, Towanda; Timothy Rhyne, Prince- ton; A. M. Stocking, Hamilton; D. Mihne, Shabona; W. E. Humenroag & Son, Stewart; T. C. Hughes, Herscher; S. P. Burns, Princeton; A. Grant, Wataga; August Siekman, Tinby Park; John Losen, Ossian; A. H. Dwighti Chicago; Samuel Bichtel, Morrisonville; James Hammond, Table Grovg; John Robinson, Plymouth; Robinson Twaddle, Plymouth; Ed. White, War- rensburg; J. L. Ray, Champaign; John Mayhew, Aledo; Everett Goodwine, l l ll N I IIIII I II I I I I I I I IIII I IIIIIIII' ll f l l1inilinilll l ll l| i "'""iiimiininiiiiNiiiiiuiinmiiu.saSgte'j^im rtcmw Potomac; Raymond Sickard, Westfield; Fred Tracy, Viola; J. S. McCoy, Canton; W. D. Fristoe, Monticello; Perry Duckies, Carlinville; C. N. Gir- ard, Bradford; O. J. Smith, Clayton; Edward Goff, Ashland; S. W. Mitchell, Roodhouse; R. J. BoUman, Coal Valley; Wm. G. Rutherford, Baldwin; W. B. Merriman, Dixon; Geo. L. Maxwell, Dixon; Frank A. Crabb, Litchfield; Fred Yager, Geneseo; Guy L. Shaw, Rpckford; Mrs. W. A. Warkins, La- moille; Wm. Buitweiser, Litchfield;' W. F. Hoskins, Norris City; Geo. M. Crego, Aurora; M. S. Zachary, Jacksonville; R. C. Runkle, Littleton, and D. Strever, Hinckley. It was as early as 1898 that W. D. Lee & Son, of Ellisburg, N. Y., ob- tained three Hampshires of J. E. Rouse, at that time of Limaburg, Ky. Other owners in New York in herd books No. 1 and 2 with year of pur- chases, were: H. A. Cooper, Walcott, 1905; Chas. Earl, Earl, 1906; Geo. Office, Halls Corner, 1906; C. O. Cotton, Avoca, 1906; F. S. Hanford, Honeye Falls, 1908. The first purchase of Hampshires recorded in the State of Missouri was made by H. H. Cleaver, Florida, Mo. (later of Perry, Mo.,) purchasing in 1897. The next breeder or purchaser in Missouri was W. T. Munson of Tina, Mo., who was one of the great factors in molding the early history of the Hampshire breed. He made his first purchases in February, 1899, or in the very early history of the breed. Others in Missouri were: A. F. Rus- sell, Fillmore, 1899; G. A. Rea, Lathrup, 1900; W. F. Davis, So. St. Joseph, 1901; G. S. Lawson, Ravenwood, 1903; E. Syster, Parnell, 190S; John Y. Rey- nolds & Son, Liberty, 1903; Wm. E. Wood, St. Louis, 1904; Thos. M. Barr, Kansas City, 1904; J. J. McCune, Louisiana, 1905; J. Q. Edwards, Smithville, 1905; C. H. Patterson, Maitland, 1905; A. W. Collison, Maitland, 1905; Fred Hatcher, Fulton, 1905. Those who owned registered Hampshires iri Vols. 1 and 2 in Missouri, but who came in after those already mentioned, are as follows: S. C. Poll- ard, Garden City; W. J. Brinigar, Blythedale; R. C. Wilson, Belton; T. J. Stocker, Roanoke; James Goodwine, Jr., Laclede; John N. Henry, Pattons- burg; R. H. Barber, Zion; M. F, Davis, Forrest City; John Lawson, Raven- wood; Levi Lentz, Independence; W. E. Johnston & Co., Graham; J. T. Larmer, Ravenwood; T. A. Sollars, Warrensburg; John Gosling, Kansas City; Will Henderson, Holt; Mrs. Mary Webster, Brinson; J. L. K Frank- lin, Independence; C. R. Hudspeth, Buckner; W. G. & J. E. Mudgett, Mer- cer; J. M. Jackson, Scotia; W. O. Bohart, Graham; Jos. Bross, Palmyra; Mrs. W. H. Buckley, Clayton; J. W. Lenox, Independence; W. E. Brown, Edina; Wallace & Ragsdale, Holden; M. C. Foster, Troy; M. A. Gray, Bar- nard; Thos. Shellburne, New London; J. D. Eads, Warrensburg; H. H. Cleaver, Perry; Dr. K. P. Jones, Kansas City; W. A. Walters, Noel; Frank Kline, Weston; J. C. Simms, Plattsburg; J. K. Hunt, Helena, and C. A. Christian St. Joseph. Tennessee secured her first breeding stock in 1899, through S. F. How- ard, Crockett, Tenn. Other purchasers in herd books Nos. 1 and 2 from Tennessee were: H. F. Howard, Crockett, 1900; Howard Karnes, Knoxville, 1907; W. A. Holden & Son, Gallatine, 1907. The first purchase of Hampshires by a Texas ranchman was made by E. L. Phelps, Sullivan, Tex., in 1900, who also obtained additional breeding stock in 1904. J. E. Jameson, of Louise, Texas, the father-in-law of the writer of this article, took a number of Hampshires to Texas, November 2, 1903, and from then on they were scattered over a number of Texas sections. The Texas growth has been steady — nothing very exciting or very extensive, but still it has been a steady growth and is still expanding, faster now than in the early history. Others from Texas who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 are as follows: Rena Jameson, Louise; T. R. Greener, Grapevine; E. H. g i m i i i i iii j iii i iiii i ii mimi iiii Li i i mi i i uiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiimMiminiini Jiiurg^^towimillllilhillllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllHi nmim ^w^^ MortQii, Italy; A. W. Foster, Marlin; R. A. Bradford, Taylor; J. T. Brooks, Sr., Italy; J; W. Van Noy, Dodd City, While it has been contended by some of our friends that Iowa was one of the" early states, we do not find records of any stock purchased and taken to Iowa until August, 1900, the first purchase being made by L. D. Sunder- land, Harlan, la., of J. K. Kiger of Nos. 385 and 386. While R. E. Owens of Williamsburg, la., made his first purchase of John Goodwine of Potomac, 111., July 22, 1902. Mr. Owens was quite prominent in the Hampshire bus- iness and his family has continued in the Hampshire business up to the pres- ent time. H. L. Terpening, moving from Potomac, 111., carried with him in 1902 and 1903 several Hampshire hogs, making an exhibit at the Chicago Interna- tional in 1904 and 1905, with considerable success. Mr. Terpening, how- ever, afterward moved from Iowa to Tennessee, and from Tennessee to Artesia, New Mexico, his present address, where he is still en- gaged in the Hampshire business. There were quite a number of early owners in the state of Iowa, and, inasmuch as Iowa leads all other states in the number of Hampshire hogs up to the present time, we believe it would be a matter of interesting history to give every purchaser and the date he secured his hogs, according to the records in herd books Nos. 1 and 2. They are as follows: T. C. McCormick, Sioux City., purchased of Goodwine, Dec. 3. 1903. F. A. McCormick, Sioux City, purchased of Goodwine, Dec. 3, 1903. C. D. McPherson, Fairfield, purchased of Goodwine, December, 1904. Wm. Schroeder, Holstein, purchased of E. C. Stone, May 2, 1905. B. F. Clark, Albia, purchased of T. H, Atkinson, July 20, 1905. F. H. Glancy, Montrose, purchased of E. C. Stone, October 5, 1905. Hilbert Johnson, Wilton Jet., purchased of G. S. Lawson, Nov. 10, 1905. John Allyn, Mt. Ayr, purchased of E. C. Stone, December 1, 1905. F. A. Cranston, Everly, purchased of E. C. Stone, December 6, 1905. H. D. DeKalb, DeKalb, purchased of E. C. Stone, March 8, 1905. J. E. Leeper, Pleasanton, purchased of E. C. Stone, Dec. 11, 1905. Chas. Ascher, Irwin, purchased of E. C. Stone, December 25, 1905. F. O. Peterson, Galva, purchased of E. C. Stone, February, 1906. Henry Wilbers, Holstein, purchased of E. C. Stone, April 12, 1906. S. A. McCandless, Belle Plaine, purchased of Atkinson, July 1, 1906. Peter Heidershirt, No. Buena Vista, purchased of E. C. Stone, July 24, 1906. A. L. Conwell, Gilmore City, purchased of E. C. Stone, February, 1906 Mathias Lorenzen, Battle Creek, purchased of E. C. Stone, Aug. 23, 1906. Simon Endrulat, Holstein, purchased of E. C. Stone, Aug. 25, 1906. Henry Neilland, Guttenburg, purchased of Mike Sharp, Oct. 20, 1906. W. F. Maxwell, Afton, purchased of Goodwine, Jr., Oct. 22, 1906. Geo. Wolf, Rippey, purchased of R. B. Steele, Nov. 28, 1906. H. J. McGirr, -Wall Lake, purchased of E. C. Stone, Nov. 17, 1906. Henry Koefring, Oxford, purchased of Atkinson, Dec. 20, 1906. Gid Petershine, Kolona, purchased of E. C. Stone, Jan. 17, 1907. J. R. Eblen & Sons, Massena, purchased of Atkinson, Jan. 20, 1907. Chas. W. Alger, Kingsby, purchased of E. C. Stone, February, 1907. Frank Martin, Storm. Lake, purchased of Goodwine, Jr., Feb. 6, 1907. P """ I ii i ii i ii ii iiii ii ii ii i ii mii iiii i i iiimi i iii i iii l'iii l M i i ii M ii NM irTnm:g!^y ^ iiiM»MiiiiiMiiii ||| | ||| | || | || | ||| | | | ||| || | || | | | || | |||)| ||| | | || | || || | || | iiiiii! n i n i i^ 19 f3I^SKj;^^3^fe^Wl^^S^^^ H. H. Hammer, Moville, purchased of F. Broderson, Feb. 9, 1907. Frank Hannum, Boone, purchased of E. C. Stone, February 11, 1907. R. B. Steele, Maloy, purchased of Atkinson, Feb. 20', 1907. L. Chambers, Bartlett, purchased of Atkinson, Feb. 20, 1907. Alois Holthans, Calmar, purchased of E. C. Stone, Feb. 21, 1907. Wm. Stochman, Oxford, purchased of H. Koefring, March 1, 1907. John A. Edwards, Cumberland, purchased of E. C. Stone, March, 1907. R. J. Boles, Atla, purchased of Goodwine, Jr., March IS, 1907. H. Willett, Comanche, purchased of Goodenough, April 20, 1907. Elbert B. Thomas, Green Mountain, purchased of Goodwine, Jr., April 25, 1907. J. C. Weidline, Wellman, purchased of Mike Sharp, May IS, 1907. Henry Hamby, Hedrick, purchased of E. C. Stone, June 1, 1907. T. C. Tanner, Polo, purchased of B. J. Mitchell, June 19, 1907. Joe W. Mellecker, Riverside, purchased of L. C. Miller, Sept. 18, 1907. E, C. Stevens, Grundy Center, purchased of E. C. Stone, March, 1907. Ray Scott, Leon, purchased of DeKalb, Nov. 6, 1907. C. F. Bruhahn, Elgin, purchased of E. C. Stone, Jan. 8, 1908. R. and G. Nye, Agency, purchased of H. D. DeKalb, Jan. 16, 1908. C. W. Wesenburg, Goodell, purchased of E. C. Stone, April 1, 1908. Hugh Margarell, Cumberland, purchased of Phelps, February, 1910. Maxwell & Spangler, Creston, purchased of Maxwell, March S, 1910. In the early history of the Hampshire breed we had quite a time in getting the breeders who had been accustomed to other breeds to record and transfer their breeding stock, and by failing to record they often would forget the date of sale. Perchance anyone should know of some Iowa breed- er, or a breeder in any other state, who purchased earlier than the dates we give, you must remember that v/e are only giving the dates of the purchas- ers who had the stock registered and transferred in their own names prev- ious to the publication of Vols. 1 and 2. Another one of our very interesting states is the good old alfalfa state of Nebraska. The first purchasing, according to our records, was done by Frank John, David City, Neb., buying of Rush Budd of Rushyille, Ind., March 8, 1900. The next was Thos. R. Kane, Wayne, Neb., buying of Mr. Goodwine, March 4, 1904. Others who owned registered Hampshires in Vols. 1 and 2 in Nebraska are as follows: C. C. Knapp, Beatrice; L. H. Smith, Lomax; C. H. Searle & Sons, Edgar; Wm. Whaler, .Wayne; J. N. Halladay, Laurel; W. B. Thomas, Randolph; L. H. Smith, Lomax; J. E. Karr, Bladen; Sid Botts, Ord; H. Con- rad, Union; F. A. Larson, Wausa; Geo. J. Mogis, Nebraska City; Wm. Bartlett, Pierce; John S. Cooper, South Omaha. Wisconsin followed Nebraska,_but about four years later, and, thinking it would be interesting for our Wisconsin friends, we are giving the list of those who purchased in Wisconsin, including all of Vols. 1 and 2: Chas. H. Clark, Ashland, 1904; F. Lobdell & Son, LaValle, 1905; J. D. Hatch, Lan- caster, 1906; Geo. S. Whitchie, Plattville, 1906; Wm. McMahon, Parduville, 1906; Lyman Turner, Bloom City, 1906; N. C. Hoke, Syloan, 1906; James Keys, Richland Center, 1907; A. J. Strutt, Ridgeway, 1907. Minnesota joined her sister state in the business in 1904, and all those making purchases recorded in Vols. 1 and 2, with year of purchase, are: Irwin Johnson, Simpson, 1904; Clinton A. LeVan, Simpson, 1906; F. O. Tan- ner, Brownsdale, 1906; P. I. Horning, Alden, 1907. pj jiii iii i i mi ii ii.i i ii i iuiiiiiiiiii'iii iiiiiM iiiiiimiiiiiiLiiii'iiiiii'iiiiimiiiiii Mii g^yBm | | iijj[|j|)|i | )u | Q| | jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiii iiiiiiiii iiiniiiiiiiiiiiip New Hampshire history was confined to one breeder, Frank R. Sanders of Bristol, N. H., making purchases as early as 1903. However, Mr. Sanders afterward moved to Mesa, Ariz. While Indian Territory is not now known of as a territory or state, it was quite a place for Hampshire hogs in the early days, running principally, however, through 1905 and 1906, or the time in which the late H. F. Work was in the Territory in the lumber business. The owners and breeders in Indian Territory were as follows: Ben Sexton, Durant; Ethel Fuller, Dur- ant; B. M. McDaniel, Durant; W. T.' Mathews, Durant; John A. Williams, Durapt; W. J. B. Lloyd, Bennington; E. W. Falsom, Guertis; N. K. Farmer, Muskogee. The first owners of Hampshires in Connecticut was D. B. Wilson of Waterbury, Conn., while L. H. White of Cogswell, N. D., carried to that far distant northern state a number of Hampshires May S, 1906, and far off South Carolina purchased through her citizen, H. F. Harden, Chester, S. C, March 1, 1906. Oklahoma was first represented by W. W. Snook of Hennessee, Okla., March 1, 1906. Others coming in during 1906 and 1907 were: Oklahoma Ag- ricultural College, Stillwater; T. J. Boyers, Manchester; M. Hester, Ana- darko; Miller Bros., Bliss; R. F. Prater, Valley; Claud Ayersman, Anadarko; C. A. Gillespie, Alluwe. The first registered Hampshires exported to Canada were exported by the writer of this article, being sold to Artimus O'Neill, Birr, Ont., January 20, 1906. Afterward the writer exported to each of the following Canadian breeders in 1906 and 1907: Edward Trott, Christiana; Thos. Coulder, Cross Hill; Hastings Bros., Cross Hill; Wm. Bigam, Millbank; Wm. Huras, Wellesbey; Jacob Lorentz, St. Clements; A. E. Shuttleworth, Hespler. Kansas, not willing to let the best of all breeds remain long out of her borders, obtained hogs through S. Thompson of Leonardville, Kan., from Mr. Goodwine, Jr., on June 1, 1906. Other Kansas owners in Vols. 1 and 2 are as follows: G. R. Weiss, Sabetha; Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan; G. K. Robinson, Galesburg; J. F. Price, Medora; Len C. Jackson, Garnett; Edwin Snyder, Oskaloosa; C. L. Davison, St. Johns; L. R, Price, Chamitt; S. E. Spellman, Chapman; W. H. Ryherd, Pierce Jet.; E. G. Burt, Eureka. The first purchases in the state of Washington were made by E. H. Selling in 1907. The first owner in South Dakota was A. M. Mitchell, of Hecla, S. D., purchasing from Goodwine in November, 1906. The second was Wm. G. Shoulte, Hilmore, S. D., purchasing of Stone in 1907. The first to embark in the business in Maine was Horace Cheney, Bel- fast, Me., purchasing of Stone in February, 1907. The first in Maryland was Hope Carieton of Cumberland, Md., purchasing of R. C. Wilson of Belton Mo., July 29, 1907. One of the very interesting points in all of the Hampshire history has been the keeping up of the list of owners of Hampshire hogs in various states. We do not feel any other record association in the world has ever kept up their owners' lists as completely or with as much porfit to the as- sociation as has the Hampshire Record. Those who owned Hampshire hogs in Vols. 1 and 2 are responsible for the following figures :' , ^ No. of Owners Introduced Into Date Vols. 1 and 2 Kentucky 1840 68 Ohio 1.889 62 West Virginia 1892 2 Pennsylvania 1892 6 ?n ii i i i iiiiii i i i ii i i ii i ii ii iii i Hr i i i i i i i i i niiiirn ii i i iM ii H iiiiiii i i i i i i ii iMiNiiiii]niiiiNJiic®f^ya m^ I No. of Owners Introduced Into Date Vols. 1 and 2 Michigan 1893 13 Indiana 1894 75 Illinois .....1896 121 New York 1898 6 Missouri 1897 S6 Tennessee 1899 4 Texas 1900 10 Iowa , , 1900 S2 Nebraska 1900 15 Wisconsin 1904 9 Minnesota 1904 4 Virginia 1904 '. . 5 New Hampshire 1905 1 Indian Territory 1905 8 South Carolina 1906 1 North Dakota 1906 2 Connecticut 1906 2 South Dakota : 1906 2 Oklahoma 1906 8 Ontario, Canada 1906 8 Kansas 1906 12 Maryland 1907 1 Maine 1907 1 Colorado 1907 2 Washington 1907 1 Louisiana 1907 1 The purchases were made approximately on the dates given with the list of owners. We are giving these dates and the number of persons owning hogs in the respective states in the order of the years in which they made their purchases. We have now given you the history with dates of registered hogs that appeared in the different states as recorded in Vols. 1 and 2, which practical- ly completes our- history up to and including th-e epoch which marked our permanent progress. We cannot leave this history, however, without mak- ing a few remarks that will show that unrecorded hogs in the first few years' history of Hampshire business were about as numerous as recorded ones. It was not until 1905 that quite a pointed argument between the pres- ident of the Association and the writer caused almost all of the Hampshire breeding stock which was sold to be recorded and entered in the purchas- er's name. It is hardly worth while to stop here to describe Association quarrels and contentions, inasmuch as the outcome of these contentions and differences of opinion had a very wholesome effect upon the progress and growth of the Hampshire breed of hogs in general. For instance, we have seen pedigrees, some of which were recorded and never transferred from J. D. Kiger to Clayton Messenger. Others were simply applications issued to Mr. Messenger and never recorded, dating back to as early as 1901. Clayton Messenger purchased these hogs as a feeding proposition, with no immediate thought of ever going into the pure-bred business. He, like his father, was very extensively engaged in feeding large inii|iiijinilllJillllBIIII I]IIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIII miLiimmiiiimnium ^ iiiiiiMimiiiiiiiiiiiiifimmm imiiiiMiM!^ numbers of hogs, with a good many cattle, and he was seeking a hog if pos- sible, the most prolific, and with motherly traits that would result in raising the largest percentage of their produce, and then have the produce possess a feeding quality superior to anything of any breed known to his feed lots up to that time. In a short period of time he had accumulated several hundred head of these "Belted Beauties," purchasing his original stock from J. D. Kiger, of Charleston, Ind. In fact, purchased some of ,the first foundation stock from the Kiger herd. We have seen the record certificates, we said, and had they been transferred, Iowa history would have been recorded much earlier than it is by actual record of pedigree transfer. We find, the same thing in three or four instances in Nebraska, and in a number of instances in Ohio. We also find D. S. Mayhew, the father of John Mayhew, of Aledo, 111., purchased several head that were not registered or transferred to his name previous to the date given of his first registered hogs. D. S. Mayhew was one of the pioneer breeders of Hampshires in Illinois. Another pioneer who is not so frequently mentioned, as he was a H great feeder in Schuyler County, Illinois, rather than an extensive breeder p of registered stock, was the father of Robert C. Runkle, known to his friends as "Rough" Runkle. We mention these men because no doubt conditions that have never come to our attention existed the same in other states as in these states we have just mentioned. The records of the m^n who purchased these hogs for the primary purpose of having a hog that was a better mother, more pro- lific, and whose offspring were more responsive as feeders, has had a very desirable influence upon our growth as a breed and our development as a Record. THE EARLY FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION. Stockyard papers were very kind in giving mention of these pioneer breeders topping the market by a remarkably wide margin for those days. It was not infrequent that clippings frorh livestock market papers would show these cars of Hampshires would sell for 25 cents to SO cents per hun- dred above other hogs on the market the same day, and of the same average weight and fitting. Very frequently these pioneer feeders who fed in car- load, and often times train load lots would carry in some of the best known breed of hogs in their neighborhood with a car of these Hampshires, and come home with the pay check for the Hampshire car much bigger than for the other cars. The Hampshire would out-weigh the rest and then they would turn around and out-sell them per hundred pounds; both very desir- able features in market hog feeding. And they had their effect. These records unrecorded in herd books established the fact in our early history that we had a breed truly winning on its own merits. With this breed with merits almost exclusively their own, the next thing was to get back of such a breed a record association of clean methods and progressive ideas. The American Thin Rind Record Association did not make a great deal of progress for the first eleven years of its existence. It was like other new brooms, it swept clean for the first year or two and then there grew up a demand for this superior class of hogs on the packers' market that was quite equal to any breeders' market in those days. When to the regular packers' market SO cents per hundred was added, and it was not infrequent that butchers in Cincinnati would travel through Boone County, Kentucky, and offer as much as $1.00 per hundred more for a drove of hogs they would find on a Kentucky plantation of this "Thin Rind" breed than they would for any other hogs in the same community, the temptation was great to send every- thing to the butcher. ii iiiii i iii i iiiii i iiii i i imiNN ii ii il i il ii iii i i ii iii i i iii i i iiii M iii n i i iiilllli n iiiii Ni iii ]Mia - has made its own way in the hands of the inexperienced man, the man either with- out capital or with such a small amount of capital that it is almost impossible for him to make any display except along profitable lines. A PLACE IN THE SUN. The Hampshire breed, having become permanently and well established, and possibly one of the most prominent breeds of hogs in America, if not the most prom- inent, although not the most numerous, now began to look for a home. The Hamp- shire Record Association had never had a home. The official place of annual meet- ings was registered in Cook Co., first at the old Transit House and afterward at the . Stock Yards Inn at the Union Stock Yards Chicago, 111., which is built on the same grounds the old Transit House had at one time occupied. It was on the 9th day of June 1917 — that it could be said the house of the Hamp- shire Record Association was set in perfect order. In the last meeting, which was December 5, 1916, all rules and previous modes of election were set aside, and J. E. Rouse was nominated to succeed himself in office on the Board of Directors, which had continued him in office with an unbroken record from the time the Association was organized, except for one year, up to that date. The receipts of the Record Association in the year 1916 were $14,558.38 — quite a difference from the figures of less than a decade earlier. The afEairs of the Association were in about as perfect condition as anyone could imagine so far as a feeling and a united cooperative spirit was concerned. There were some financial affairs that were known only to the secretary, and, as he was carrying them personally they did not need to worry anybody. In the month of February the very sudden death of the beloved J. E. Rouse left a vacant chair on the Board of Directors, and we would not willingly believe any Association would so keenly feel the loss of one friend and benefactor as the American Hampshire Swine Record Association as a whole felt the loss of the most worthy J. E. Rouse, one of the founders of the organization, and the one man with that true principle, with malice toward none, with charity for all, and a great recognition for everyone who would try to do something worthy of mention. It was these qualities that made his loss felt go keenly. It is a matter of record that the last request in the member- ship meeting and in the directors' meeting ever made by J. E. Rouse was that the pedigrees be made shorter, and thus conserve as much expense as possible, and to perform the making of pedigrees with as little labor as possible. His request was granted. He had hoped to live to see the day the Record Association would have a home of its own, but the building of this home had not been accomplished or even attempted previous to his death. At the fir.st directors' meeting following his death, his son, J. Howard Rouse, was elected to fill the vacancy of his father, and he has continued in office up to this present day. In March 1917 the secretary purchased a frontage of ground in the 400 block Wisconsin Ave., Peoria, 111., on one side of which he desired at some future date to build a residence, and the other side of which, he thought would be a good site for a new and substantial home for the Hampshire Record Association. When the directors met on June 9th, having previously notified all of them by letter of his am- bition, the secretary showed them the piece of ground, and recommended them to purchase the plat 40 feet wide and 150 ft. in depth. The directors were all present except the one representing the Rouse family. They seriously doubted whether it would be possible to erect a building. There was not a single dollar in the treasury at the time, and no plans had been formulated, except in the secretary's mind, where- by money could be raised to finance the erection of a building fit to become the future home of the American Hampshire Swine Record Association. The secretary insisted, if he was let alone and unrestricted by any handicap, it would be possible for him to build a home. Therefore, upon a resolution being offered by Clayton Messenger of Iowa, and seconded by Judge C. E. Thomas of Prattville, Ala., a building committee, consisting of Mike Sharp, president of the Record Association, E. C. Stone, secretary and treasurer, and P. F. Silver, director, was authorized to purchase from the secretary a piece of ground known as 409 Wisconsin Ave., Peoria, 111., which should be ISO ny ill N lll llimn il jj iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii imiiiiiiiiii i iiiiiiii iMiiimjgg^BrmTTTiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiMii iiiiii i iiMii i ii ii ii i m i miii iiii iiii iiiii iniii mTTTY feet deep along the side of the public alley, and have a frontage of 40 feet on Wiscon- sin Ave. This committee was given power to cause plans to be drawn and to enter into a contract and cause the erection of a brick and brick veneer building, the said building to not be less than 30 feet in width and not less than 60 feet in length, and built in such a manner as to be the most suitable building for a home for the Record Association. We need not burden any of out: friends with the further details of getting out the plans. The plans were drawn by Warren W. Day, architect, Peoria. The committee met, and, after advising some changes and corrections, finally received a completed set of plans and adopted them for the building. The original contract was let to E. D. Collier in the amount of slightly over $11,000.00 for the main contract. The plumbing, heating and lighting were let on sub-contracts. The building completed and ready to occupy, including the purchase price of the grounds, cost a net of $13,- 400.00. It was a busy season in 1917, when the secretary set about to raise funds to erect this building. The contract was let yet September was far spent when the building was started. It was a beautiful fall, and everything progressed splendidly, and the secretary was able to collect in enough money to keep the percentages paid on all the contracts as fast as they were completed and ready to be paid. What he did not collect in he paid himself. The last week in November, or Tuesday of the Chicago International, while the Hampshire breeders were feasting and cele- brating the accomplishments of the year, the last piece of slate was placed on the roof of their new building, and thus the building was put under cover. Unfor- tunately for the building enterprise, a heavy stornj followed within forty-eight hours that stopped all progress on the building until the next April. No contrac- tors could ask for additional payments on their work because they had been paid on their contracts up to the last estimate to the point where they had completed their work. It was a very fortunate thing, indeed, for the secretary that the winter was a severe one, and no mechanic or workman could get back on the job before spring. During the winter several hundred dollars were collected on the building fund, but not a fourth enough to cover the next estimate. It would be worse than a calamity to have this most excellent office building started and then not be able to complete it, and, after exhausting all resources to raise money to pay the estimates as they came due on this new home, and still being several thousand dollars short, the secretary found it necessary to sell his own home, which had been also the home and office of the Record Association. He was able to realize $5,000.00 clear in cash for his resi- dence. This $5,000.00 represented all the savings he had in the world, but he put it all into the new home of the Hampshire Record Association, having confidence and faith in the Hampshire breeders that they in due course of time would return to him in some way or other this $5,000.00. The secretary moved out of his home, giving possession to the new owner, and moved into the attic of the new home of the Hampshire Record Association. While he had been both father and mother to the Record Association, and furnished it a home all of its life from 1903 to May 1918, the Record Association now furnished him a roof for himself and family. During the summer of 1918 such portions of the secretary's savings as were necessary for him to start his own home on, had been paid in by the members of the Association. This reduced the gross amount of the cost of the erection of the office home to such an extent that a building and loan association was willing to carry the balance, and all contractors and builders were paid just as fast as their estimates became due. This is the history of the Hampshire Record Association home. It was in November 1918 that the secretary had been able to make the loans and get most of his money back to put it in his own residence, which stands by the side, yet some fifty feet distant, from the office of the Record Association. Close friends, yet com- petitors of the Hampshire Record, have said no one else would have taken such a chance, but had not that chance been taken the Record Association even to this day, would have been without a home. Up until the time of the building of this home it was necessary for the Hampshire Record Association to invoice all herd books on hand, the cost of production, and to invoice all desks and office equipment in order to make a solvent report of the financial condition of the Record Association. It was one of the ideas of the secretary that the building of this home would furnish a g i ii iim i i m iiii m iiii i i n i iiingg^^mmiiiiMiuiiiiiiiiiiiiMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiminmTTmnnTrTTii S8 means of collecting money that would put the Hampshire Record Association in the most solvent condition of any of the hog record associations. Very fortunately also property has very materially advanced in the section of Peoria where this office was built. At this time it is worth, and would readily sell for fSOOO.OO more than it cost. Therefore, since the day we moved into our new home the Record has been solvent, is a 'real estate owner, and does not lack any great amount of being out of debt, so far as the home is concerned. It was necessary for the secretary to have enough confidence in the Hampshire business to give up his last cent for the pro- motion of the breed, but he realized no job was too big to undertake it if was to be of benefit to the Hampshire breed of hogs. The first. assistant in the secretary's office was Miss Lou L. Reed. The first thing she learned in the office was an absolute loyalty to the Association, and every person who has come into an assistant's position in the record Association,' or in the Hampshire Advocate, since, finds his finst duty is to give an undivided loyalty and assistance to the breed, regardless of what energy or eSort may be required to do so, and thus we have a very happy family. This does not stop in the office but even includes every fieldman on the Hampshire Advocate staff, who makes it his first duty to, in a most earnest and conscientious manner, support the up-building of the Hatnpshire Record Association, and all matters connected with the Hampshire breed of hogs. No organization has ever failed that has working in its cause a set of people whose minds and very souls are all centered upon the success of that organ- ization. We have stated earlier in this article that there never was a time the secretary did not have at least a part of his own personal resources invested as capital stock in the promotion of the Hampshire breed of hogs, or the Hampshire Record Associa- tion. For months each year he carried the printing bills at his own expense, some- times running into amounts anywhere from $1000.00 to |6000;00. In the early history the special premiums were raised by the exhibitors who had a prospect of winning the special premiums signing the contract, or agreeing verbally in the pres- ence of witnesses, to give as much to the treasury of the Hampshire Record Associa- tion as they won in special premiums; but in later years when the secretary would work with all the might he had to get the fair boards to add additional premium money for the Hampshire classes by his offering for the Record Association additional premium money, the breeders seemed to think their only responsibility, was to get to the fair with a hog good enough to get that special premium. We don't know where they thought that special money came from, unless it grew on trees or the bushes planted around the secretary's office, as they seemed to have no interest, or but little interest, in putting anything into the premium fund, but a great interest in having all special premiums paid promptly on the day they were awarded. Every year it has been necessary for the secretary to put all of his own funds into the special premiums, and at different times borrow from the banks on his own personal ac- count from $2000.00 to $6000.00 in order to pay the special premiums at the fairs as the premiums were awarded. We don't claim any great amount of honor for having done this. .It was done for the love and the promotion of the breed we knew to be the best breed of hogs in the world. We realize the gay will laugh when we are gone, and the solenm brood of care plod on, but there is a conscience in the management of the Hampshire breed — a conscience that has never been seared or scorched with greed, and no matter whom the successor may be, let this conscience continue to work free for one of the highest causes in the world. There are no regrets for what the secretary has done. There has been no financial loss. There has been some worry it is true, but, being of an optimistic nature, that worry never reached the outside world and it has all come about for the benefit of the most; that progress has been made, but it has not been made without an effort. When Mike Myers was showing his cars of hogs, and each successive year just falling a Httle short of the grand championship under the judge, but each year just as surely selling from 10c to SOc per hundred above the car that won over him, the secretary was working all the time to sec that superior quality should be recognized by the judge as well as by the buyer. During these same years there were a few. p} ] iiii i iiiiii ii iiii mi iii ii i ii ii i iiii i i i iii iiiiiTmnnnT MIMIMIIIIMIMMIIIIir miimiiiiiiiiiiLu^^LLi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllMiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiii nmi* and may God be blessed there were only a few, breeders striving with all their might and main to create the same kind of sentiment and fake sales system (because when a trade enters into it it can be considered nothing other than a fake sale) that were being formed and carried into completion in other breeds, but the Hampshire breed was being held steadily down the road on a cash basis. First the public sale system in most of the live stock business went into the unreasonable price records by merely trading stock, but, as financial conditions became better and money was easily ob- tained, the pure breed livestock people seemed to have a tendency to go into high finance. That is, they bought at unreasonable figures and gave their notes, while the other fellow fjrom whom they purchased also bought back of them at unreasonable figures, and gave his note, and so on until there was a chain of several of what ap- peared to be real sane and honorable men, each buying of the other and giving his note because they found it was possible to sell these notes to the bank. After the notes were sold they used the money in large gobs because it was easily obtained. Well, one purchased the fancy limousine, or automobile to replace the Ford ; the other sought out the highest priced boar of the breed and put his money, and some ad- ditional notes, into that animal; while still another would purchase land, at prices ranging from $300.00 to '$500.00 per acre, that in reality, six months prior to the date of his purchase, was selling for $100.00 per acre; while still others bought oil stock, mining stock, and other like property, until all of these people who had bought and given their notes, and then had taken other people's notes and sold them in order to get cash, had invested in one way or another all the money they could realize on all the notes they had. When the notes came due none were ready to pay; and, if you want to know what was the matter with the country banks in the fall of 1920, you have the answer in the above statements. Many banks with from $120,- 000,00 to $150,000.00 on deoosit, were carrying from $70,000.00 to $90,000.00 in these' notes, and nobody could pay simply because they had put the livestock busi- ness into high finance class. The secretary had been called a fool, and almost everything except by his proper title, for contending that all Hampshire sales should be conducted on a cash basis, to preserve the best breed of hogs in the world. It is auite doubtful if there were $20,- 000.00 worth of Hampshire notes in the world in the fall of 1920. Therefore, the breeders had no notes to oay, and none of the big worries. This has been a matter of education. The world's so-rated best auctioneers said the Hampshire breed would be a failure unless we joined this get-rich-quick scheme, putting over big prices in public sales, and otherwise "kidding" ourselves into the belief that we were fooling the public. Now every Hampshire breeder is proud indeed that we kept the Hamp- shire business on a safe and sane basis. It is possibly the only breed that has shown forward financial steps in the year 1920. It was a great celebration in the fall of 1918, when 65% of the Pig Club prizes, where all breeds were in competition and there was the Hampshire among them, were awarded to the Hampshire. It was still a greater day when Mike Myers came to the Chicago International with the greatest car of hogs that had ever gone into the Chicago Yards. Men of many years standing in the Yards declared them to be the best, men of wide knowledge declared them to be the best, and the iudge put them at the head of all the rest. Then the packer put on the Drice, and he reported a kill- ing sheet record showing a dressing oercentage of 84.9% of their live weight, which was proof beyond a doubt that the Hampshire did not only look the best alive but looked the best on the killing sheet and in the ledger. While hope and prediction ran high in the minds of the Hampshire breeders, this hypodermic injection of $2.20 per hundred above the top of any other hogs, and the second shot of this kiljing sheet record of 84.9% of their live weight, brought everybody to their feet, put them on their toes. When the sale season of 1919 came on others could have a sale here and there with average prices beyond reasons, but when you took the average of all the sales that were advertised and reports published in thelDreed papers and farm press, the Hampshires had actiially averaged $8.00 per head above any other. Then came the summer season, and the fall sales of 1919. The shows had increased about fifty percent in number, and the quality was talked about by competitors,' by those in- terested in livestock, and by the farmer who had never previously given Hampshires a thought.. Then to the International Livestock Show at Chicago came again Gus ^rS^? Myers and his father, Mike Myers. Again they won, again they sold, and this time |6. 10 above the top of the market in the Yards. From the first figures we were able to secure, this car of hogs dressed 86% of their Uve weight — a new record, a sensational record, a record that no competition in the International has ever secured! The world's greatest show for Hampshires — ^the much talked about hog! Then came the shows of 1920. First we should mention the sales of 1920. Everybody was rioting and dealing in riotous living, until, to use the words of a friend, it seemed that every day in public sales in many breeds was "armistice day." Every- body was living in the highest stage of excitement, and they were buying at prices beyond reason — now and then some fellow paying large gobs of cash, but most of them giving notes, and the man who gave the note today was Only in a few days tak- ing a note from the man to whom he had given a note. Every effort was used to keep the Hampshire breeder from this note system, from this dealing in futures with the Hampshire breed, and today you see the results. If the secretary of the Record Association ever laid claim to anything worthy of mention, it is this one thing of making the Hampshire hog a cash article. As we have stated before, the best auctioneers and the best fieldmen have called us crazy. They used the terms, "Get the money while you can get it," and we have always said no money was so great we could afford to sacrifice the best breed of hogs in the world just for the sake of getting it. Our competitors today pay us the highest terms of tribute sirnply because we refused to get into the money-gettittg game regardless of whom we might injure. We will admit our Pig Club plans were so large in 1920 they practically ran away with us, but the $15,000.00 that was spent from all sources in Pig Club promotion has brought the Hampshire fame in every state. Everybody is talking about them, and whenever they talk you can afford to put them on the pay roll. They will yield a dividend. The Hampshire shows in the regular classified exhibits at the state fairs were not only practically double any previous year in numbers, but we must admit they were almost practically double in quality. A heavy strain in a financial way has come upon the Record Association on account of almost every premium down to the last dollar classified in any state, county or national show bemg awarded in 1920. In previous years an average ranging from SS% to 65% was the amount of premium money awarded, but it was not so in 1920, which is the best index to our growth. Almost 100% of the money classified in 1920 was awarded, thus making the awards something over 112,000.00 more than we expected, or have ever awarded in previous history. The necessity of raising the balance of this money, however, is not one percent of the strain on the Hampshire Record Association as the strain of paying notes past due for hogs that were not worth the price. The Hampshire breeders have received this premium money almost to the last dollar, and it has made breed promotion. * We would like to take the time and space to give our growth by years, but we feel we have already dwelt too long on the subject tha,t lies next to the heart of the writer, and will only speak in figures of the growth of the past year. Before we go into that we want to speak again of the investment of 1100.00 we made in January 1910. As stated, we bought our home at 703 E. Nebraska Ave., Peoria, lU., paid $200.00 in gold, and agreed to pay $25.00 per month and 6% interest. The dividends on this $100.00 investment, in the two gilts purchased of H. E. Wedge of Monticello, Ind., paid the $25.00 per month but for the first year did not pay the interest. In fact, John Bliss, a man whom we have not met, but who must be one of the best men among men, was kind enough to defer interest payments for two yearfe. This gave us a chance to re-invest some of the profits of the breeding stock money that was raised from the produce of these two original gilts. As stated, our partners (as they had grown in number) got two-thirds of the selling price for furnishing the feed and care taking. We got one-third of the selling price for furn- ishing the original breeding stock and assisting in the selling. At the end of three years all payments on the home had been made, and all interest had been fuUy paid up from these hogs. The property cost $3325.00 in February 1910. $2000.00 had becnadded in the way of improvements, building an office room, etc., and modernizing it by put- > iii mm nn i i i i mil » iiii i MiiiiminmniHir^a*SjBiTnTTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin i |||| || ||| | | ||| || | | ^ ting in electric lights, and hot and cold water. When we were compelled to sell this home in the spring of 1918, in order to pay the estimates becoming due on the office building, we were able to realize $5000.00 cash for it, and that original $100.00 and its growth had paid all bills. No other money had gone into the home except the income from this $100.00, working in Hampshire business. When the Hampshire breeders had put in sufficient money so this could again be re-invested for the benefit of the secretary and his family, he built a home by the side of the Record Association office,- which includes a lot fifty feet in width, facing Wisconsin Ave., and 150 feet in depth, along the side of Nebraska Ave., with side walks, brick coping, brick and brick veneer house, brick garage, and everything in modem conveniences at a cost of $19,995.00, for which, during the summer of 1920, the secretary frequently refused $30,000.00. Three men in particular tendered an offer of cash payment in the amount of $30,000.00 for this property, all of which had been built and paid for from an original investment of $100.00 in Hampshire hogs just one short decade previous. In 1918 this $100.00 had grown to a little over $6000.00, and in the two years of 1918 and 1919, including the first half of 1920, it had grown to slightly over $20,000.00. This is a part of the history of the Hamp- shire breed — a record of the accomplishment possible with the Hampshire hog — and on a small investment. With fifty percent of the men in commercial business absolute failures or bank- rupt, and only three percent of the persons in mercantile business considered in the mercantile world today as successful, over ninety-nine and a half percent of the per- sons who have engaged in the Hampshire business have never quit. The percentage of those that can be regarded as completely successful we are sure is above fifty per- cent. Extraordinary successes have advanced at least above twenty-five percent, and total failures are less than one-half of one percent, so we must concede that the Hampshire business, financially, is above the plane of commercial business, and has been made so simply because it has been held to a sane cash basis. It has been the habit of the secretary of the Hampshire Record Association tct on the first day of May each year since the management of the Hampshire organiza- tion fell into his hands, make a complete list of all owners of registered Hampshires. Each year from 1903 xxf to the. present time has shown a remarkable growth. Most years have shown a record double that of the previous year. Even with all these doubled up records, on May 1, 1919 there were but 21,000 owners of registered Hampshire hogs. From May 1, 1919 to May 1, 1920 there were slightly over 14,300 persons who purchased their first registered Hampshire. Advertising thru the Breeders Gazette alone brought in, according to these records, 1472 new owners. From other advertising done by the secretary and the Hampshire Advocate in farm and agricultural papers, more than another 1000 new purchasers who answered our advertisements have had hogs registered in their name. From all sources the enormous growth of 14,300, and a few extras, has shown a record that we believe has not been equalled either in numbers or percentage by any other breed in its history. The show records of 1920 have caused all to bow in reverence to the "belted breed." The International of 1920 is the most sensational history that has ever been made. J. M. Ballard of Marion, Ind., having a younger car of hogs than his competitors yet the heaviest car, won over the breeds, both in daily gain and superior quality, that call themselves "big type." When it comes to the individual barrow classes,possibly the greatest triumph ever known was recorded. This is a matter of history, and we shall record it exactly as the hogs appeared and sold, which is as follows : CARLOADS AT INTERNATIONAL— 1920 Hampshires — Top oar $15 . 00 Hampshires, average of six cars 12 . 46 DuROCS — Top car 13 . 75 DuROCS, average of five cars 12.10 Chester Whites — Top car 11.75 Chester Whites, average of two cars 11.625 Poland Chinas — ^Top car 13 . 00 Poland Chinas, average of seven cars 1 1 . 43 1?35 II Ill I l lll lNl l l l l l lll llllllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllirTTTITTlT ^:^i,iir^^-^mmmm miiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i iiiiii iiiiriiiiniy SELLING PRICE OF THE CHAMPIONS IN SINGLES, IN PENS, AND THE AVERAGE SELLING PRICE OP THE SEVERAL BREEDS (For your information we will state that the grand champion barrow over all breeds was the Chester "Wliite, which sold for $18.00 per cwt., and the grand champion pen over all breeds, was the Poland China, which sold for $11.00 per cwt.) HAMPSHIRES Champion barrow $12.25 per cwt. (Owned by University of Illinois) Champion pen of harrows 12.00 " " (Owned by F. W. Timmernian) Entire exhibit of 95 head, average 11.53 " " DUROC JERSEY Champion barrow $12 . 00 per cwt. Champion pen of barrows 10.95 " ** Entire exhibit of 79 head, average 10.62 " " BERKSHIRE Champion baxtow $11.00 per cwt. Champion pen of barrows 11.00 " " Entire exhibit of 46 head, average 10 . 42 " " CHESTER WHITES Champion barrow $18.00 per cwt. Champion pen of barrows 10 . 50 Entireexhibit of 18 head, average 11.05 " " POLAND CHINAS Champion barrow $11.00 per cwt. Champion pen of barrows 11.00 " " Entire exhibit of 65 head, average 10 . 65 " " DRESSED CARCASS NET RESULTS Heavy Weights HiMPSHIRES: „ r-,- ■ ■, Highest net dress, any breed 90.42% of live weight Average dress 85.46% of live weight Poland China: Highest net dress 85.44% of live weight Average dress 83.08% of live weight Chester White; * Highest net dress 86.05% of live weight Average dress 83 . 28% of live weight Berkshire; Highest net dress 86.33% of live weight Average dress 84.63% of live weight DuROc: Highest net dress 83.60% of hve weight Average dress 81 . 62% of live weight Medium and Other Dressing Weights Hampshire: Highest net dress 88.92% of live weight Average dress 85.55% of live weight Poland China; Highest net dress 78.57% of live weight Average dress 78 . 57% of live weight Berkshire: Highest net dress 80. 14% of live weight Average dress , 80.14% of live weight DuROC: Highest net dress 73 . 91 % of Hve weight Average dress *...... 73 . 91% of Uve weight The grand champion dressed carcass was a Berkshire, dressing 79.76% of his hve weight. It is to be noticed that the average dressing percentage of all the Hampshires in the dressed carcass contest was 85.50% of their live weight, while the grand champion over all breeds only dressed 79.76% of his live weight. The highest Hampshire dressed 90.42% of his live weight — the highest dressing percent- age of the entire show. AMBITIONS REALIZED A thought or an ambition put to work becomes a reahzation. A thought or a suggestion of the mind that a thing should be done, or that somebody should be doing something, is God's way of teUing people that he has selected them for the special purpose. Thousands of successful people never give God credit for anything. Not even for suggesting ideas or the presentation of good clean thoughts, but he who fails to act upon an idea, a thought, or a suggestion that a real good thing should be done must mark himself a failure in life. Somebody had the idea and advanced thought that the Hampshire breed was the best hog in the world. In his local surroundings in all directions from Cincinnati I li iii in i ii i I m i l F iii i i i ii i i miiiiM i mnm i M i ii i lll l l ll l l llllllillliiiiMNiiiu i^^^iJiiiiiiiiiiiiliMllllllllllllli mmri iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii S N5EI .m>- he was the monarch of the Ohio Valley. If he was so wonderfully known and had produced such large litters, made such rapid growth at a low cost of production and still dressed out from his carcass the most excellent meat of the Valley why should he not lead; and, if he could lead in his locality, why not in the world? This was the thought of 1903 in the mind of the present secretary. I did not begin with askings I took the job and stuck; And I took the chance they wouldn't And now they are calling it luck. — Kipling. As we have stated earlier in this history, we were blessed with poverty and with sickness. Five children have been borne into the family, none living more than a day, and in the midst of the days of poverty and the wave of affliction, the gossiping tongues had not failed to do their part. Jealousy was present in the ranks of the Hampshire breeders themselves, and there was an ambition and an organized effort for a time among the owners of other breeds to hold down the progress of any fifth great breed that might try to become an equal competitor in the field of livestock or swine husbandry. It required real energy on the part of th,e new leader to take the job and stick under such adverse conditions, but the suggestion of an idea once put into practice must be sure to bring gratifying results, and it is better to act than- to feel a life has_ been spent in vain. No one now would deny the fact that the leader in the Hampshire world had an ideal to live up to. In 1912, when the load was the heaviest, and the road of progress was most dis- turbed, the Hampshire secretary, who took the job and stuck, sat down to formulate a New Year's resolution for 1913, and to place it before the conventions of Hampshire breeders in the form of a lecture or an address, and =to pubhsh it for the benefit of all. In part the address was as follows: "All of your life long you have been hoping that good luck would watch out for you for the rest of the year. Turn about in 1913 and try HARD "WORK. Prov- idence has a bad memory for those who do not help themselves. Fortune doesn't canvass from door to door. You can be or have as much as your equal if you do as much. There are no limits to the possibility of Human Will. But desire is not a crea- tive force. Hope is only an architect. You must build as well as plan. Those who have accomplished the most are not necessarily superior human beings. Man does not perform miracles — he merely achieves practical results through earnest applica- tion. In every community there are a few persons who think clearly, cling to their determinations, and persist in their efforts to rise. The tools of success are stand- ard. They belong to rich and poor alike. No sound and whole body enters this World possessed of faculties which Nature did not bestow upon all humanity. But you and the majority of your acquaintances have made few or no genuine attempts to utilize your advantages to the utmost. You have not done justice to your gifts. You have not even EXAMINED your machine shop. Back of your forehead there is an equipment of lathes, drills, engines and dynamos which, when properly applied, can perform any task. Time and again you have complained of your chances, when all the while op- portunity has been signalling to you, smihng, calling and crooking her finger in your direction, every hour of every day. How often have you remarked to your friends that you had no thought of a device, an improvement, an enterprise, or an idea, which rendered another man famous or affluent? You are not handicapped except by your own lack of initiative.' You aim too low. You tire too easily. Your ambitions are too commonplace. You lack daring and doggedness. To which you probably answer: ' 'My education was neglected: I have been held back with responsibilities; the openings in my town or in my locality are few." Ex- cuses — every one of them. Education is only training, and anybody who can be benefited by a college has a mind which can be developed by seU-training. They tell what has been done, but enterprise finds its own paths. illlllllllllliinilllillll iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNirref