Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — NEW HIGH PRICES FOR “MORTGAGE LIFTERS” [ARTICLE]

NEW HIGH PRICES FOR “MORTGAGE LIFTERS”

8. T. Comer & Son of Union township shipped a carload of seventy fine hogs, raised on their home place, from Parr Monday to Indianapolis, and expected to get better than 13i£ cents for them. Mr. Comer, Sr., says that in his experience of over forty years as a buyer an? shipper of hogs that he has never seen as few in the country as at present, taking into consideration, of course, the present settled up condition of our county. The present price of hogs hq. states is the highest in history, except that one time during the civil war his father sold five Chester White hogs for 14 cents per pound. The indications now are, however, that they will • reach 16 or 17 cents per pound at least during the next few months, because of the fact that growers have really sold themselves short on account of the high price of corn.