Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — HAMPSHIRES SELL HIGH [ARTICLE]

HAMPSHIRES SELL HIGH

MANY HAMPSHIRE BREEDERS ATTEND BIC HOG SALE , IN THIS CITY.

The sale of forty-nine pure bred Hampshire hogs at the Mam Garage In this city Friday by J._N. Leathefman and John R. Lewis and son was well attended and the bidding was spirited and good prices were paid. The most of the offering were spring gilts. The highest price paid for these was $175. Thirty-seven of the hogs were the property of J. N. Leatherman. The average price received for these hogs was SIIB.OO. / The average price for the entire forty-nine hogs sold was $lO4 and the total receipts of the sale was $5,201. Twenty-one of the hogs were purchased by Hampshire breeders in this vicinity, including Monticello, Morocco and Kentland. Rensselaer is fast becoming one of the greatest centers' of Hampshires in the United States. . Sows and gilts offered here were such as have helped to make this a center. Lewis and Son and Leatherman, while building for themselves names as noted breeders of Hampshire hogs, are at the same time placing the name of Rensselaer and Jasper county on the map.