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the outside world than a dozen com

the outside world than dozen com
mercial enterprises the like Of which
you boast. The people of Audtam
County would dig deep into their jeans
and give freely to have a good factory
locate there. Yet, if l am well in-
formed, you are about to allow an en-
terprise that is worth a dozen such in
stitutions slip away from you. The
very fact that this herd is located in
Audrain County should be enough for
the citizens to see that it stays there.
1t is not what this herd means indiv-
idually so much as the fact that Just
because it is located in your county,
your farmers soon will have purebre
boar on their farms who never will if
they are obliged to send away for him.
1t is not directly the animals that viii
sell in the sales if Bill Jones buys
good SOW and Jim Smith gets one of
her boar pigs next year, his pork crop
naturally will be increased so percent.
If the people of Audrain County do
not desire the maintenance of this
good herd for the good of all the cou-
nty then from a business and purely
selfish standpoint, why don't some Of
you farmers get busy and buy Gerst-
dale Jones and some of these famols
brood sows. The herd is just as
good as it was year ago when the 40
sows sold by Carter and Vandeventcr
averaged 1854 round. In fact, pure
bred Polands are going up in price and
since that sale many more notable ones
have been made. | attended four sales
this week that sold offerings for The
above average and two sales that beat
it. They were no better than that hea-
ded by that one-time record-priced
boar, Gerstdale Jones.
The war has now happily come to a
close. Nevertheless, the adage food
will win the war; is no less true than
it was a year ago. The world must
have food and more food, and from 90
to 25 percent of the worlds food sup
ply must be in the form of fats and
pork products. Conditions which larg-
ly have arisen out of the war have gl-
ven the hog industry new lease on
life. Pork is going to continue TO
bring high prices and the purebred hog
will profit from these substantial pri-
ces more than any. Food is too high
to feed to scrub stock and farmers,
even in Audrain county, should realize
it. They are going to feed hogs that
will mature into the 20O-pound rlass
the quickest and consume the small
est amount of hiSh-priccd gram.
Therefore, purebred sire will be in
demand.
A history of the groth. of nation is
4 history of its agriculture. AgrI-
cultural grcth is the history of its
livestock. Livestock agriculture, there
fore, is fundamental. The history of
Audrain county is history of live
stock farming. l am perhaps in bet
ter position to speak of the value Of
such heard Of Poland China hogs
as the Gerstdale Jones herd than any
other Audrain County man. 1t has
been my privalege, if it may be called
to attend the greatest sales and shows
and visit the most important heards
of Poland Chinas in every part of The
United States, and I know that with
proper care an din good hands Gerst-
dale Jones has continued to make rec
stands as high in the minds of think
ing breeders as does any in all the land
Even since the so-called blow up, Gerst
dale Jones has continued to maye rec
ords. The latter part of Nov. attend
ed sale where litter by him was
sold for the worlds record price for a
spring litter at public auction. In the
last few days l have attended some
great sales where Gerstdale Jones
"stuff" was the attraction. In fact, it
is difficult to attend sale or visit
farm, even to write a pedigree now
adays, without using the name of
Gerstdale Jones. In the last issue of
our paper, The Poland China Journal,
there were 225 pages of Poland China
sale advertisements and should say
two-t thirds of them featured the get, |
one way or another, ofthe great Gerst-
dale Jones. The herd he leads CON
tains the choicest representatives of
the highest-selling, prize-winning
families, distinguished for their indi-
vidual merit, remarkable capactes and
proliicacy. They are noted for their
size, constitution and high production.
Due to the fact that it is a dispersion
and that some GOSSIP has been spread,
do not anticipate their selling for
anything like what they cost origin