Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — A WORLD RECORD HOG PRICE [ARTICLE]

A WORLD RECORD HOG PRICE

Indianapolis Firm Gives $6,650 for Boar Pig at Oxford Sale. Lafayette, Aug. 31.—A world record price for a boar pig was paid Saturday afternoon at Colvert Brothers’ sale of Big Type Poland China swine at Oxford, Benton county, when Kendall & Hackley of Indianapolis gave $6,650 for Triumph, a six-months-old animal sired by Liberator, dam Model Giantess 111. This is the highest price ever paid for a boar pig of any breed. Forty head of hogs were sold and the total proceeds of the sale wore $20,695. Model Qiantdss 111. is a brood sow for which the Colvert

Brothers paid $11,300 at Kansas City last fall. Out of her last litter of 14 pigs she raised 10 of them und six of these were.sold at Saturday’s said' for $11,450, an average price of $1,908.32. TTiere were 300 buyers at the sale, representing 35 different states.