Wichita eagle., 1889-02-23
I. ]. FOX & son.
$50 NORTH MAIN.
SANITY CARRIERS HOG.
What a Boy Can Do When He Lets
Himself Out.
The New Jersey Youngster Who Raised q
Porker Which Kicked the Beam at
I064 Pounds-A Proud Father and
Gratified Son.


Squire Anthony Bullock is the owner OF
the biggest hogs in New Jersey. He has
eight farms Of 1900 acres altogether in
Burlington County, and his tenants vie
with each other and with the owners Of
other farms and the raisers Of other hogs
to see which can feed the best and have
the most lard on the large ribs at butcher
ing time Last year Taylor De Winnie,
when butchering time came had hog that
weighed 1850 pounds, and Joseph Carter,
who is Mr.. Bullock's largest tenant, msde
up his mind that when he killed his hog
this year he would have one that would
beat the record.
Mr.. Carter is a strong Republican. He
selected two of his largest boned pigs and
named one Blaine and the other Logan.
His twelve-year- old boy Samuel took
charge of Blaine, aud Mr.. Bullock prom
ised him sealskin cap if Blaine weighed
more than Taylor De Vinne's 1,050-pound
hog. On Saturday the hogs were killed
and weighed at Mr. Carter's place. 1t was
the spring holiday time for the New Han
over township Jerssymen, and all the 9TH
er Jersey men for miles around, and Sam
my will get his sealskin cap.
Before daylight the women folks on the
farm were up, and by half past six o'clock
the two score men under BARLEY Carter
who were to do the work, had had break
fast and were at work. An hour before
noon thirty three mammoth hogs hung up
along the shady side OF the barn on long
beams, and a couple of hundred Jersey
men watched them, and calculated how
big they were, and bet on their weights.
AS each hog was hung up the crowd
speculated, and when the whole thirty
three hogs were hung up number of local
magnates gazed and figured. Major A. j.
Smith. of Highstown, was there, and so
were Judge Black of the Common Pleas
Court, William Penn Bryan. Robert NJ.
Parker, Stacey B. Taylor, Miles johnson,
the crack shot; Henry Lippincott, Thomas
Matthews and Joshua Forsythe. The brass
band of Jacobstown walked two miles TO
be present and play at this butchering.
Mr.. Bullock lives little off the Bord en-
town and Recklesstown Pike. He has a
fine house near where G. Washington
Childs, A. NJ, used to live. His tenant,
Joseph Carter, lives further out near
Arneystown.
None OF the hogs were o yer twenty-five
months old, and score died that were not
much over year old. They lived in lux
urious stalls, and were fed on boiled corn
meal until their eyes could hardly be
reached with probe and only the tips of
their tails stuck out. The average weight
dressed was over $40 pounds, and dress
ing takes off about ten per cent. When
they were killed CANDLES were put between
their legs and a clean corn-cob in their
mouths, and they were hung up to be
weighed. Sammy's big hog was at the far
end, and it was to be weighed last, Mr..
Bullock requestedJ Judge Brown and Joshua
Forsyth to help him, and began the weigh
ing. 1t took four men to 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 steelyard.
''Seven hundred" said Judge Brown,
when the first hog was lifted up. Five of
! for the gambles.n
| So it went on, with only one below 700,
until the weighing committee and the
! crowd got to the last two. Taylor De
! Winnie stood up close.
''Teu hundred and nineteen" said Judge
| Brown, when the next to the last hog was
/ weighed.
Betting then began as to whether Sam
my's hog would beat that. One man Of
! fered To bet one dollar that the last hog
would weigh over l,oS5 Nobody responded.
| Sammy's face frightened.
The weighing cart was pushed on 70 the
| big porker. The levers were adjusted.
! The same weights were put on as for the
other hog, but the steelyard did not
| balance The slide was showed along and
| along until it went up to loo, 1.045,
| 1850. and still il didn't stop. Sammy was
! in ecstacy. for TAYLOR De Vinne's big hog
had been surpassed, and Sammy Carter,
of New Hanover Township, has the record
for the heaviest hog produced by the State
! of New jersey. The band played, and
finally when the weight reached the bal
ancing notch, it was allowed TO remain
there, and evervb dy went in to dinner.
After dinner Sammy was taken out IN
| the middle OF the crowd, and his uncle,
| BARLEY Carter. and his father, Joseph
| Carter, and Mr.. Bullock held him up in the
air. and everybody responded with wild
! yells to the call:
three cheers for Sammy Carter, the
boy that raised the 1,064 pound hogl"