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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919.

SWINE OF PURE

BREED GROW IN FAVOR IN STATE

Supply 5n State Large and De

mand Unusually Heavy

lop Prices Paid.

1JNUIANAPOLI3, Ind., June 20. The auction sales of pure bred hogs, held by Hoosler breeders hare closed

ror the spring season, and since the first of these sales was held in March Beveral thousand high-grade sires, matrons, gilts and pigs have been distributed from the' breeding farms of Indiana, to other breeders and pis clubs in this state, while a large number have been sold to breeders from other states, the demand being especially pronounced from the breeders in New York. Connecticut and other eastern live stock territory. New swine history has been made In the Indiana industry In the last four months. The supply of pure breds has never been so large in this state, the demand has never been so heavy and prices have never ruled so high. While common swine at the stock yard markets have brought $20 to $21 and more a hundred pounds, the pare breds have not been involvel In these sales, but have been disposed of at the auctions and at private sale on the breeding farms. Turning to Pure Breds The herd books of the breeding associations show that thousands of In

diana swine breeders are turning from mongrels to pure breds, and the movement to place a pure bred sire at the bead of every herd is rapidly

gaining ground. The demand from county banks, breeding associations

and others which are promoting boys' and girls' pig clubs has this year been so heavy that the ( number of pure bred gilts has fallen short of the demand, while some of these promoters

have bone out of Indiana into other

states to find stock they desired.

In point of number, there are more Hampshire swine of pure blood reared

la Indiana than any other breed. E. C Stone, secretary of the American Hampshire Swine Record Association, has on his records the names of 2,469 breeders in Indiana, who own registered Hampshire sows, not including the large number of feeders who own only registered Hampshire boars. Mr. Stone estimates that 561,000 Hampshire pigs, all pure bred and eligible to record in the association books," were farrowed on Indiana

farms this last spring. The 2,469

Hoosler owners ' of registered sows

nave six or more of these animals on

their farms. Some of the breeders have 808 registered sows. The six largest herds in Indiana are those of

John R, Lewis, of Rcnssalaer; Willie Easig, Tipton; Seth TV Hadley, Hadley; Claire Rhode, Pine Village; M. S. Gardiner, Idaville; J. Crouch and Son, Lafayette, who own registered sows In lots of 100 to 300. There are in

Indiana, Mr. Stone said, 1,000 Hampshire breeders whose herds of sows

number from twenty to fifty head, and there are 1,000 more breeders who have from five to fifteen registered sows, making an average ownership of twenty-five sows on Hoosler farms which e oeci aline in Hampshlres of

highest breeding. In the 1918 Litter.

The Hampshire records show that

an average of eight and seven-eighths pigs were produced In each litter in 1918. This record has been more than maintained In the spring farrowing this year, Mr. Stone said, and may

have averaged nine pigs to the litter. The 62,400 registered sows in Indiana, he estimates, have yielded a spring

production of 561,600 pigs. Prices on Indiana Hampshlres have ruled high this year and give no signs of becoming lower. Hampshire pigs eight weeks old and small enough to slip into a half-gallon cup, have sold from the least known breeding farms at $26 each, while breeders who are good advertisers nave received $50 for a pig at weaning time. The choicest September boars and gilts of the Hampshire blood have this season commanded $100 to $500 a head, while a few older and show boars have Bold from $1,000 to $4,000 a head, but none of these boars was Hoosler bred. Seth T. Hadley sold a number of sows early In the spring at more than $1,000 a head. Willie Essig sold a sow for $1,100. Claire Rhode sold a ten-months-old gilt for $1,200 and he bought two herd boars

for about $1,000 each. But John R. Lewis holds ' the record price for a Hampshire sow in this state, selling one In early spring to Willie Essig for $1,550. Through the spring season, Mr. Stone said, Hampshlres have everaged $333 a head in the auction sales. Hampshire Pork Production. The Indiana record for Hampshire pork production is doubtless held by J. M. Ballard,' whose farm is near Marion. In September and October, 1917, he had fifty-two sows on his farm, and by their litters the fifty-two matrons in September, last year, turned 264,500 pounds of pork to the packers' market, an average of 2.54 tons for each sow, bringing $53,000 in cash to the breeder. Gus Meyer, of El wood, another Hampshire breeder, is said to hold the Chicago market record for a carload of hogs, which averaged 391 pounds and sold for $21 a hundred pounds. The hogs were bred and fitted for the market on the Meyer farm. The National Spotted Poland China

Record Association, of which Fred L.

Oberchaln, of Bainbridge, Ind., is secretary, has 32,000 hogs on its books, the number from Indiana farms .being

about 10,000, including boars and sows.

The Hoosler sows, the secretary estimates, farrowed 10,000 pigs in early spring. That the breed is growing In numbers and In popularity is shown by a gain of 106 per cent in the busi

ness of the association in the first four

months of 1919 over the first four

months of 1918. Poland China Prices.

Spotted Poland China prices have been on the rise and are now at the

highest level in the history of the

breed. A first-class yearling boar read

ily sells for $500. Mr. Oberchain sold a two-year-old boar in May to George W. Reeve of Rushville, for $1,000. At

their spring sale, Clawson Bros. &

Lairy of Lafayette, sold a yearling

sow to Shaver & Fry, of Kalona, la

for $1,500; B. J. Southard, of Fishers,

sold a sow to James Owens of Noblesville, for $1,050; Lilly Bros, of Tipton, sold a sow to Dunk & Ehrsman, of Mulberry. Ind., for $1,030; Clyde Jones of Stewart, la., bought a boar of Youkey Bros., Thorntown, for $1,275, and a sow for $810. The largest herd of Spotted Poland Chinas In the National Breeding association is owned by Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad, who operates a farm of 5,000 acres in Newton county. She began specializing in the black and white swine years ago and while her herds produce many hundreds of pigs a year, she has difficulty in meeting the orders from breeding farms over the United States for pigs, gilts and older animals. Mrs. Conrad has 150 cows on her farm which supply milk for her pigs and Aberdeen-Angus calves. G. G. Carter of Fairmont, says there are 300 Indiana breeers of Duroc Jerseys who have 4,500 hogs recorded on the books of the breeding association, the number not Including all of the

boars or sows that are eligible to the

records. Not All Registered. "Oaly about 40 per cent of the pure

bred Duroc pigs raised are ever reg

istered," Mr. Carter said, "so there

are about 11,250 eligible for registry

in Indiana. The Duroc is a predomin

ating breed in the corn belt of the United States and the large number

of red hogs in Indiana Is evidence of the popularity of Durocs among Hoosler swine breeders. There are many red hogs in this state which are grades and many of the pure-breds are never registered. With 300 Duroc breeding farms in Indiana, with an average of fourteen brood sows and a boar to a farm, Mr. Carter estimates that 37,800 piga of pure breeding were farrowed in this state early in the spring. The fact that large numbers of farmers own pure-bred Duroc sows, he said, would doubtless Increase the number of pigs to 75,000. The range of prices for Duroc boars has through the spring sales in this state been from $100 to $2,000.

A. M. Brown,' of Winchester, Ind.,

secretary of the National Poland China Record association, said that for some

years about 10,000 hogs of this breed have been registered from this state. The year in Poland Chinas has been

marked by very high prices, the range

for boars being from $75 to $10,200.

Silver Brook farm, at M untie, sold a

boar to E. E. Farver, an Iowa breeder, for $5,000. J. L. Davis, of LaFontaine,

sold Kramer's Kind to T, E. Thomp

son & Sons of Franklin, for $5,000

This sow early in the spring farrow

ed ten pigs, nine of them bows, all of

which are being raised.

So much improvement has been made in Berkshires in recent years

that the breed is rapidly spreading in

favor and the number of these hogs

on Indiana farms is increasing every

year. In its earlier years the Berk

shire was small and fine in Quality,

but with passing time it has been

taking on size. One of the last auctions of Berkshires held in-, Indiana this year was that of E. J. Barker, of Thorntown. who sold fifty-one head

for a total of $12,935, an average of

$261, these figures showing about the range of prices for Indiana of the breed this year. Piping Brook farm of Greenwich, Conn., bought 'five ani

mals at the Barker sale, paying from $290 to $1,000 for them, Grand Leader

2nd bringing $1,000. Breeders trom

Massachusetts. Virginia, Pennsylva

nia, Ilinois, Georgia and Ohio came

to this sale and took home with them

Hoosier-bred animals with which to

enrich the blood of their, breeds. Clubs Are Formed

To increase interest among breeders

as well as to increase the number of

breeders and the size of the herds,

all of the swine associations of Indiana are giving much attention to the promotion of boys' and girls' pig clubs. As a result there are many thousand members in these juvenile organizations in this state. Banks in county seat and smaller towns are financing these movements and the clubs are under the general supervision of county farm agents of experienced members of the adult associations. Some of the clubs have been tins? lnne enough to get on a

substantial footing, and in most of

the counties of Indiana, to be the cham

pion pig raiser is the goal ot tne ambitious members of the clubs, and these county champions aspire to state leadership. The breeding associations are broadening the activities of the juvenile clubs. The great show of pigs raised by club members will concentrate in September at the state fair, when 500 or more pigs, which have won county honors in their breeds, will be in a "battle royal" for the state championflhitis . About $2,500 in prizes will be

awarded in the different breeding con

tests at the coming state iair, me r-hestpr White association being one

organization which will give $500 in

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