Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1920 — HAMPSHIRE SALE “ NETS [ARTICLE]

HAMPSHIRE SALE “ NETS

j. N. LEATHERMAN’S HAMPSHIRE HOG SALE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL J. N. Leatherman, one of Jasper county’s most prominent breeders of Pure Bred Hampshire hogs held a very successful sale in the sales room of the Main Garage in this city Wednesday. There was a very large number of buyers present many of them from other counties and a few from other, states. * Fifty-one hogs were sold at an average of $122.39 per head or for a total of $6,242. The highest price received for any one hog was $350. This animal was purchased by Will Essig of Tipton. Twenty of the 51 hogs were sold to the residents of this county. Several went to other counties of the state, some to Michigan, Illinois and North Carolina. Mr. Leatherman was very much pleased with Ms sale. Last year he held his sale much later and the forty hogs he sold averaged sll7.