Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — ONE HOG SOLD AT $347.50 [ARTICLE]

ONE HOG SOLD AT $347.50

Out at John R. Lewis’ Hampshire Sale Wednesday. The seventy-five head of Hamp* ehire hogs sold out at John, R. Lewis’ blooded swine sale in Barkley township Wednesday brought a total of over $6,270, an average of nearly $8 6 per head. One show sow brought the top-notch figure of the sale, $347.50. Several sold for $250 and S2OO per head, and none sold for less than SSO. Some twenty-five or thirty head were sold to Jasper county farmers and the rest went to swine growers in different sections of the country.