Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1917 — Hogs Sell For $l2 In The Indianapolis Yards [ARTICLE]

Hogs Sell For $l2 In The Indianapolis Yards

The highest price ever paid for hogs in the Indianapolis market and probably the highest ever paid- inAmerica, w&s obtained for thirtythree head of thoroughbred PolandChina swine, averaging 251 pounds, ■that sold to the Hilgemeier Brothers Packing Cofnpany of that place at $12.00. They were fed and shipped by A. G. Burkhart, of Ttipton, who at one time represented that district in the state A little later in>he day, another lot of fifty-six hogs that averaged 248 pounds, owned by I. E. Rivietzer, of. Otterbeih, sold to the same buyer at the same price of $12.00.