Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 35, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 July 1949 — Litter Show To Crack Record [ARTICLE]

Litter Show To Crack Record

Indianapolis Show Expected To Draw Greatest Number Of Exhibits In History M Indianapolis, Ind., July 27. Predictions were today that the ~-August 18 Ton Litter Hog Show at Indanapolis stockyards will be the largest in Indiana history. Ed Miller, extension swine specialist at Purdue, predicted that between 50 and 100 litters ©f hogs would be shown at the I2th annual Hoosier Ton Litter Show. Miller said that 925 litters have been enrolled in the contest this year. Pork producers strive to produce a ton of pork from one litter of pigs within 176 days under rules of the contest. The best of these will be entered in the show competing for more than SSOO in prizes. Prizes are awarded by the Producers Marketing association, the Belt Railroad and Stockyards Company and the Indianapolis Livestock Exchange. The first entry received came from James Schopmeyer, of Clay county, who had the reserve champion litter in 1947. The entry list will close August 8. Representatives of the livestock industry, county agricultural agents, and Purdue experts attended a meeting in Indianapolis Monday at which T. R. Johnston, Purdue Extension Publicity director, said: “Indiana for some years has produced the best quality market hogs grown anywhere* in the United States.” Johnston said hogs -account for almost one-third of the Indiana farm income and that from 85 to 90 per cent of the corn crop produced in the state is marketed in the form of livestock or live stock products. ~—