Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1919 — HIGH PRICE HAMPSHIRES IN SOUTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

HIGH PRICE HAMPSHIRES IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

Charles O. Robinson, who has lately purchased a farm within six miles of Mitchell, South Dakota writes that all of the Jasper county people are. all j*ight. Mr. Robinson formerly lived near Loomis, South Dakota. He is a brother of Mrs. Louis H. Hamilton. In a letter received Friday he sent a clipping in reference to a Hampshire hog sale, held at Mitchell, which was attended bj* Jasper county’s leading Hampshire breeder, John R. Lewis. The following is the clipping: The highest • average price ever paid for Hampshire hogs at a public sale in South Dakota was received Monday by Morris & Colburn of Mt. Vernon, when 45 registered Hampshire hogs sold by them at the state pavilion in Mitchell, brought an average of $260 a Jiead. A champion sow sold for $1230 to Morris, Brown & Kinchloe of Redfield topped prices at the sale. This is the second highest price ever paid in the state for a Hampshire hog. The Valley Stock Farm of Plankinton paid S9OO for another sow, and John R. Lewis of Rensselaer, Ind., purchased » pig for SSBO. The 45 head of hogs brought a total of SII,OOO. The majority of the hogs were sold to breeders living in this section of South Dakota, although a few were bought by buyers outside of the state. The majority of the members of the South Dakota Hampshire Swine Breeders’ association as well as men from Nebraska, lowa, Indiana, and North Dakota, were at the sale and the attendance was good. . ' . Morris, Brown and Kinchloe of Redfield were the heaviest buyers, purchasing six head of the registered Hampshires:

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