Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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GRAND CHAMPION PRIZE CAR OVER ALL BREEDS, 1918 Hampshire Hog Development in 1919.

Many Breeders and persons connected with the Hampshire Hog thought at the end of 1918 that this great breed had reached its zenith during that year, and competitors stated that the Hampshire Breed had done all it could, and would not advance any farther. After our triimips of 1918 in feeding, breeding, showing and selling, while we rested and view our laurels, it seemed even to us as though these conjectures might prove true and the Hampshire Hog could reach no higher pinnacle of fame than it had attained. But the Hampshire Hog, being the greatest ot all breeds ,knows no zenith; it is impossible for it to reach an apex or topmost point of perfection. The ideals of the breed, or what appears to be the topmost point of perfection, aie like the ideals of our childhod; when we have approached them they are like a kindly moving star, advancing and •making new points of perfection, when we have attained all that our ideals held, and have reached the greatest point ot perfection that the human mind could have imagined. iQis was our condition at the opening of the season of 1919. .No other breed ever attained such records as were scored by the Hampshires in 1919. They stood above the records of others in the single class, in the carload class, in the Pig Club Shows, in the Health Record and in the Net Dressing Record. _■ The Hampshires started out with a good sale season in 1919; no flighty prices; no SI,OOO per head or $l,lOO or $1,500 per head averages in a single sale, as published for breeding stock by some other breeds. Det them lay claim to all of their unwarranted prices, yet the Hampshires, with their top sale average resting at $338.00 per head, at the end of the sale season, outstripped their nearest competitors in the sum total of sales, with an average of SB.OO per head. This is an attainment that no other breed has ever laid claim to. The Hampshire did without all the make-believe stuff and kept their feet planted on, the ground, making honest, straightforward paying records, and at the end of the season could greet the world with the record price, selling over all breeds at Public Auction on the average. Following immediately was the report from the Kentucky Agricultural College. The mammoth Hampshire Barrow had outgrown all their favorite hogs; he had stood the test of time and answered to every class call during the year, and when the school year was passed he marched upon the platform and. laid down his life for further educational purposes. He possessed only 6 percent bone, But he was as perfect on his feet as the best hog in the school. He weighed about 600 pounds and dressed in honest-to-goodness meat

JOHN R. LEWIS & SON, Rensselaer, Indiana