1922 MARYVILLE, MISSOURI STANDARD POLAND CHINA CERTIFICATE REGISTRY PIG

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Certificate of
Registry
for
The STANDARD
POLAND CHINA
RECORD ASSOCIATION
Located in
Maryville, Missouri
in the year of
1922
It names the registered pig as
Peter's Grand Lady.
It includes:
First Sire as
Peter the Great 2d
and
First Dam as
L's Queen 2d.
The document back side has registry also.
This document is signed by:
F. L. Garrett
Notes:
The Poland China is an American breed of domestic pig.  It was first known to be bred in Warren County in Ohio.  It’s origins lie in a small number of pigs of
Chinese type that were bought in 1816
, which were cross-bred of  with a variety of breeds of European origin including the
Berkshire
(now extinct).  It was bred as a land pig and among the largest of all pig breeds and is the oldest American breed of swine. The breed became widespread in the United States, and at the end of the nineteenth century was one the most numerous breeds in the country.  Numbers fell in the twentieth century as demand for lard decreased.  In 2018 there was only a population of 12300 reported.
The Poland China hog
today is recognized as a big framed, long bodied, lean, muscular individual that leads the U.S. pork production in pounds of hog per sow per year.
History:
The origin of the Poland China has its beginning in the Miami Valley, Butler and Warren counties. In the year
1816
, the
Shaker Society of Union Village in Warren County Ohio,
through their trustee, John Wallace, secured one boar and three sows from a firm in Philadelphia. These were known as
Big China hogs
. The boar and two sows were white, while the third sow had sandy to black spots. Historians believe they were the same hogs that were so popular about this time in the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  It is possible that they were in fact of the now-extinct Bedford Breed. Shaker farmers cross-bred them with local pigs the types known as Russia or Byfield, which are both large pale skinned pigs.  Further crossing of breeds occurred including the British Berkshire (now extinct) and the Irish Grazier.  This led to the consideration of a
type which by about 1846
was usually known as the
Warren County pig
and the
Poland of Big China
. Some historians have fixed 1846 as the year of the discontinuance of all outside blood in crossing on the Warren county hog.
Condition:
This certificate is paper ephemera that doesn't have letter folds and will be shipped flat.  It is in very good condition with exception of tiny damage at bottom margin and corner.
The "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead.
The approximate size is
7 3/4" x 9 1/2".
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