Pig Showing - Containing Information on Judging, Preparation and Handling Pigs for Exhibition
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ADVANTAGES OF SHOWING
For the breeder of pure-bred hogs who wishes to establish a substantial trade, it is very necessary that, as soon as he becomes well versed and properly started in his breeding line, he should make it a practice each year to fit a show herd. Possibly at first it is as well for him to prepare only for county shows, until he thoroughly learns what is required to win at the big shows and expositions. There is no way, in my opinion, in which a young breeder can so quickly get before the people and started to selling his hogs for breeders as to annually fit enough animals to fill the classes usually provided for in the various premium lists.
The reason I suggest that the beginner commence his show career at the county fairs, is from the fact that I passed through all these little troubles when I was a great many years younger than I am now and know what the difficulties are for a beginner. It is hardly expected that a young breeder who has never followed the practice of showing, and who has probably not spent a very large amount of money in the foundation of his herd, can win at state fairs and expositions where only a few great show animals can get the money. Let the county fairs be the stepping stones to larger ones where it requires, practically speaking, the P. T. Barnums of the business to win.
Never will I forget the time way back in the ’70’s when I made my first show at a state fair. It was at the Illinois State Fair when it went around on wheels, and that year was located at Freeport. I had only been in the business a year; knew nothing of what it required to, even have a chance of getting into the money; but nevertheless I was full of enthusiasm and overflowing with ignorance. I fitted up a portion of a herd which I thought was some pigs
but found, much to my profit eventually, that they were only ordinary. Starting out with much pride and having already figured the amount of money I would bring home by adding, up the amounts in the premium lists, I found after the fair was over, that I was really a wiser man and