Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — Bought Some of the Finest Hampshire Sows in Country. [ARTICLE]

Bought Some of the Finest Hampshire Sows in Country.

John R. Lewis, of Barkley township, who has been one of the county’s foremost men in the full blood stock business, has just received six head of full blooded Hampshire hogs and will receive two head more. Six of them were purchased of Crouch & Son, of Lafayette, and the other two head were purchased at the sale of Joseph S. Br-ooks, of Chalmers, Tuesday. At that sale Mr. Lewis bought the top price sow of the sale, getting a big brood sow for which he paid $167. Mr. Lewis has enjoyed fine success wit hhis Hampshire hogs, pronouncing them after some experience the best all around farm hog and he will engage extensively in their breeding. The Hampshire is a black hog with a white girdle at the shoulders. T.h y are large, clean and extremely healthy