Iowa State Get Wild Boar for Breeding Purposes

Ames, Iowa, 1920

AMES GETS WILD BOAR FOR BREEDING PURPOSES

Ames, Jan. 1.—A wild boar from Africa has been received by the experiment station of Iowa State college for use in type test and other breeding work.

Kansas State Agricultural college received the boar from its original home and used him in a number of tests, and sent the boar to Ames as a gift.

All of the present day breeds have been developed from the suscrofa, the species to which this wild boar belongs, and the station hopes to do some interesting fundamental work with the animal. He has large tusks and his hair, gray in color, is very long. His ears are black and stand upright. Although he weighs only 150 pounds, he does not lack in fierceness.

--Waterloo Times-Tribune, Waterloo, Iowa, January 2, 1920, page 2.