The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-22
DurOc Jerseys
:, s.s;s e Real Home
REDWOOD COUNTY PORkERS
ARE GENUINE ARISTOCRATS
IN $4,000 HOME.
"SEE EN- AT THE FAIR"
A. L. NAFSINGER ROYALTY
HOUSES HERD OF 200
PUREBREDS.

Among the big attractions to stock
growers who will visit the Redwood
County Fair next week will be the
Nafsinger display of purebred Duroc
Jersey hogs. This display was a big
attraction last year and there will be
several fine animals in addition shown
this year. The display made at the
fair will be interesting in every way,
at home in their big new barn just
interesting. There each brood SOW
with her litter is shown in the full
glory of her private quarters-and the
quarters erected for his herd by Mr..
Nafsinger are certainly SOME quar-
tersi
The barn is a hundred and twelve
feet in length and thirty-two feet
wide. Built of brick and cemented
both inside and outside with hollow
tile floors also covered with cement,
the building is built for great warmth.
The construction is further supple
mented in this purpose by hot water
heating system as complete as would
be used in home. Twenty-six large
double windows on the south side let
in the sunlight which is another fea-
ture greatly to be considered in the
health and comfort of the hogs.
The building is extremely well To-
Gated for the purpose for which it was
built. 1t stands on a rise of land with
a gentle slope in every direction. Sur
rounding it on all sides are the pas
lures, eight of them ranging from two
to five acres, which Mr.. Nafsinger
plans to plant to alfalfa and clover
for permanent pasturage. These pas
lures will be fenced so that each group
of hogs will have its own pasture
quarters which will connect directly
with this same groups quarters in the
barn. Surrounding the entire build
ing, for a width of twelve feet will be
cement floor, also divided by the
fences. This, with the ample supply
of running water which is pumped in
to the barn by an air pressure system,
greatly simplifies the feeding process
The barn itself contains in the center
of the building, a large feed room
measuring fourteen by thirty-two feet,
with loft above it for the winters
supply of hay and straw.
The building is still not entirely
completed as the shortage of cement
has handicapped it's completion, but it
is already occupied, thirty litters of
fall pigs being numbered among its
occupants among the mothers
of these litters is one sow
valued at $500 and another
mother of eleven fine pigs is worth
5000. The sire of the herd is Model
Cherry Orion who cost his owner
100000 when he was eighteen
months old and whom $4,000 would
not buy today. The Model is by Model
Orion, the four year old boar who
sold for $4,000. These are just
few of the herd of two hundred, ev-
cry one of them of the bluest of blue
Duroc Jersey blood. Mr.. Nafsinger
| considers time too valuable to spend
with poorly bred hogs and is raising
only the very best of the breed he has
selected. His brother, H. o. Nafsin
ger, with whom he is associated and
whose home is just across the road,
has a herd of hundred and fifty all
of the same good breeding. The Naf
singer standard is high and their
| herds are attracting attention from
breeders throughout the Northwest.