Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Hoover Farmer Sells Hogs For Trifle of $43,398.83. [ARTICLE]

Hoover Farmer Sells Hogs For Trifle of $43,398.83.

Marion, Iwi., Oct, 17.—An exceptionally large deal in hogs has been completed by Frank Wise, living near Upland, who sold to the Ballard Packing Company of this city, 1,605 hogs averaging 252 pounds a head and aggregating 404,170 pounds, with a dock of 460 pounds. These hogs were bougth at $10.75 a hundred weight and brought their owner a total of $43,398.83. The dressing sheet showed a dress of more than -~Ba-por-ceWt-af-the.-live weight, which is above the average. The entire -drove was hauled in wagons from the “"Wise farm to.the packing house, a distance of thirteen miles, without a single hog being crippled.