Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-03-01
HIGH CLASS HOGS
TO BE SOLD HERE
First Consignment Sale Of Berk-
shires in New England
Ancestor of One Sold for $4,0o0-Sale
Takes Place in Pavilion Wednesday,
March 6.

Brattleboro will again set the pace
Wednesday, March 6, when the first
consignment sale of Berkshire hogs
ever held in New England will take
place in the pavilion of the Purebred
Live Stock Sales Go. on Vernon street
the company acting for and under the
direction of the New England Bcrk-
shire club. About 80 boars and sows
bred in the purple have been consigned
to the sale, and it is expected that 100
or more breeders will be present.
A meeting of the New England Berk-
shire club, of which John Gault of
Manchester, n. H., is president, will be
held in the Brooks House Tuesday eve
ming, March s, and the sale will open
the next afternoon at 100 o'clock,
with T. A. Perry of Barre (Vt.) as auc-
tionecr. 1t is not unlikely that because
of the novelty of the sale large num-
Der of townspeoplc will gather at the
pavilion.
The consignments include some of the
best.brcd animals in the East, and
among the consignors are some of the
biggest breeders in the country.
Seven head are consigned by Doane
Hall Farms, S. d. Wicks, Pomfret, Conn.
They include his entire show herd for
1917. Among them is yearling boar,
Doane Hall s Superbus, which took first
prize at Syracuse, second at the New
England fair and third at Trenton. In
this herd also is the SOW, Superbus Sal
ly I'd, the grand champion at Trenton
in competition with several of the best
herds in the East. Charming Maybelle
Sd, another sow in this consignment, was
first in her class at Worcester and SYRIA
cuse.
Branford Farms of Groton, Conn,
also are consigning seven head, includ
ing Rival S Branford Duchess 18th, u
sow under two years old, whose grand
sire on her dam IS side sold for $1,000.
Her grcat-grandam on her dam S side
Hopeful Duchess, made Berkshire his
tory for the state of Michigan and was
the grandam of Great Leader I'd, the
grand champion at the Panama Pacific
exposition. 1.-THE great-grandsire of
Rival s Branford Duchess 18th on her
sire's side, Lee Premier, sired the
grand champion herd at the 1909 Inter
national Live Stock exposition. Lee s
Bradford Duchess 5th is another animal
in this herd. Her great grandsire and
great-grandam on the dam s side were
were the grand champion boar and SOW
at the st. Louis exposition.
Four sows are consigned by the
Balsams Stock Farm of Dixville Notch,
n. II. The grandsire of three of them
was Rivals Lord Premier, which sold
for $4,000.
The Hood Farm of Lowell Mass,
noted ~for'its--high -bfoeded Jersey cat
tie and the home of the world s cham.
VII Ia,
the Valley fair in Brattleboro is con-
signing two-year sow which is
combination of the famous Artful
have produced for w. +. Spicer of Bush
nell, Ill, his big prize winning animals.
The Hood Farm paid 800 for her rs a
pig.
II. Z. Morrison of Oxford, n. H., sec
rotary of the New England Berkshire
club, is consigning three sows which 90
back to Hood Farm breeding.
Joseph Baker of North Grosvenordale,
Conn, will send a sow whose sire is
son of the great Hood Farm boar, Lord
Premier S Successor, and is full broth
or to Successor s Double, sold by the
Hood Farm at the New Brunswick, n. j.,
congress sale for 81, 100.
The Connecticut agricultural college
at Storrs consigns two sows, both full
sisters to the champion pig club pig of
Connecticut in 1917.
Two animals of high breeding will be
sent by Harry w. Knights of Overlook
Orchards, Littleton, Mass, president of
the American Berkshire Congress.
The animal coming the farthcst dis
tance is consigned by Wcndovcr Farms,
Bernardville, N. j.