Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-04-27
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the lisgese ao ia - Jersey. hs has
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saf "a t8a CsaaGys ana ais teuaats We
ath s4eh otaer AMI ~ith tne o~eers u
8lh f4rus aa1 the rais - 8f 8th hoss
- see @hlch caa feed Ehe Dsst asd have
tns most ard ga the large - 4t batch sg-
Bg time. Last year Taylor DE Finne.
shsa bsrcherihg time came b AZ ho. that
sel xhsd So poands, and Joseph Garter,
wh0 . Mr Bulioek's largest tenant, made
up his mind that when De KILLED MS nog
gbis year BE- would have one that would
beat ths record
Mr. Carter - a strong kspublc2u- h
selected tWo u his largest boned pigs and
namei oae Blaine and the othsr Logan
Ills twelve ear old by Samuel took
charse of Blaine. a8d Ar. Buil0ek prom
isst him a sealskia cap Il b Aine vel he'd
more thau Taylor De N.nne's l05)-p0uBd
hog Ca Saturday the hogs we're killet
and. hed a. Mr. Carriers place. IL was
the spring holiday time for the New Han
over township Jersey asen, aud ali the o<h-
81 Jersey men Tor miles arOuud, and sam
my Nih yet his sealskia cap.
Before daylight the women folks On the
farm were up, AMI by half past six O'Clock
the two score msu unier BARLEY Carter
Who were @ DO the work. had had break
fast and were az work An hour before
aeon thirty three mammoth hogs hung up
along the shady side of the barn on long
teams and couple of hundred Jersey
men watched them, and calculated how
tig they were, and bel on their weights.
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speeolatei, and when the whole thirty
three hogs were hung up number Of local
magnates gazed and cured. Major a J
NTH OF Highstown. was there, and 50
were Judge Black OF the Common Pleas
Court, " liam Penn Bryan. Robert NJ.
Parker, Staeey h Taylor. Miles Johnson,
the crack shot; Henry Lippincott, Thomas
Matthews and Joshua Forsythe. The brass
band OF Jaeobstown walked two miles To
be present aud play at this butchertng.
Mr.. Bullock lives a little of the Bofd en-
town and Recklesstown Pike. He has
nne house near where q. Washington
Childs, y NJ, used 70 live. His tenant,
Joseph Carter. lives further out near
Arney yst0wn.
None OF the hogs were o yer twenty-five
months old. and a score died that were not
much over a year old. They lived in lux
uriOus stalls and were fed on boiled corn
meal until their eyes could hardly be
/ reached with "A probe and only the tips OF
| IA cir tails stuck out. The average weight
dressed was over SO pounds, and dress
ing takes OF about ten per cent When
they were killed CANDLES were put between
heir legs aud a clean cOrn-cob in their
mouths. and they were hung mp to be
weighed. Sammy's big hog was al the far
/ end. and IL was 10 be weighed last Mr..
Bullock requestedJ udge Brown and Joshua
/ Forsyth 20 help him. and began the weigh
/ M. Il took four men 70 pull down on the
/ long end Of the lever to raise the hogs from
the beam so that the whole weight would
rest on the steelysrd.
Seven hundred" said Judge Brown,
when the first hog was lifted up. IF i've off
for the -amt!es."
/ ~ is went on. with only one below 20,
until the weighing committee and the
/ crowd got 10 the last two. Taylor D.
l Winnie stood up close.
/ "Ten hundred and nineteen" said Judge
| Brown, when the next 70 the last hog was
/ weigh. d.
/ Betting then began as 20 whether Sam
/ mv's hog would beat that. One man o.
I fered to bet one dollar that the last hog
/ would weigh over 1.03j. Nobody responded.
/ sammy : face frightened
/ The weighin cart was pushed on TO the
I blk porker The levers were adjusted.
| The same weights were put on for the
I other hog. but the steelvard did not
/ balance The slide was showed along and
/ aloog until IL went up TO 1040, 1.045,
/ .050. and still it didn't stop. Sammy was
/ N ecstacy, for Taylor De Vinne's big hog
/ bad been surpass d. and Sammy Carter,
/ Of New Hanover Township, has the record
+ for tho heaviest hog produced by the State
Of Nev Jersey. The band playei, and
/ finally when the weight reached the bal
ancing notch, 10 was allowed TO remain
Z there. end everyb dy went in 70 dinner.
After dinner sammy was taken out IN
the middle of the crowd. and his uncle,
BARLEY Carter, and his father, Joseph
I Carter, and Mr. Bullock held him u in the
air and everybody responded with wild
yells 20 the call.
Three cheers FOR sammy Carter, the
boy that raised the l,QS4 pound hOgW