The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
First Consignment Sale of
Berkshires Ever Held
in New England
ANCESTOR OF ONE
SOLD FOR $4,000
SAFE Takes Place in Purebred Live
Stock Sales Co.'s Pavilion Wednesday
March 6-Prize Winners and De-
scendants of Premium Stock.

! 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 III the pavilion of the Purebred
/ Live Stock Sales Co. on Vernon street
the company acting for and under the
direction of the New England Berk
SHIRE club. About 10 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.
y meeting Of the New England Berk-
SHIRE club, Of which John Gault of
Manchester, \. H., is president, will be
held in the Brooks House Tuesday eve
nlng, March 8, and the sale will open
the next afternoon at 130 O'Clock.
with /. A. Perry of Barre (Vt) as auc-
tloneer. 1t is not unlikely that because
OF the novelty of the sale a large num-
! Der OF townspeople Will gather at the
pavilion.
The consignmcnts include some of the
beSt-bred animals in the East, and
among the eonsignors are some of the
, snN'fN bA1NhCIS Ill the country.
/ Seven head are consigned by Doane
Hall Farms, s. D. Wieks, Pomfret. Conn
They include his entire show herd for
1917. Among them is a vearling boar
Doanc 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 2d, the grand champion at Trenton
IN competition with several of the best
herds in the East Charming Mavbelle
Sd, another sow in this consignment. was
first IN her class at Worcester and Svra.
cuSe.
/ Branford Farms of Groton. Conn.
also are consigning seven head. includ.
ing Rival S Branford Duchess 18th, n
sow under two years old, whose grand.
sire on her dam 5 side sold for 81 800
Her great grandam on her dam S side.
Hopetul Duchess, made Berkshire his
tory for the state of Michigan and was
the grandam of Great Leader ID, the
grand champion at the Panama Pacific
exposition. 1.-THE great -grandsirc of
RIVAL 5 Branford Duchess 18th on her
Sires side, Lee Premier, sired the
grand champion herd at the 1909 Inter
national 1--we Stock exposition Lee s
Stamford Duchess 9TH is another animal
IN this herd. Her great grandsire and
great-grandam on the dam 5 side were
were the grand champion boar and SOW
at the st. Louis exposition
! -Four sows are consigned bv the
Balsams Stock Farm of Dixville Notch.
\. H. The grandsire of three of them
was Rivals Lord Premier, which sold
for 81 900
The Hood Farm of Lowell, Mass.
noted for its high blooded Jersey cat.
tie and the home of the world S cham
plon Jersey cow, a former exhibitor at
the Valley fair in Brattleboro, is CON
signing a two-vear-old SOW which is a
combination of the famous Artful
Bellies and Romfords, the families which
have produced for W. Z. Spicer of Bush
nell, H., his big prize winning animals.
The Hood Farm paid 800 for her as a
pig.
II. +. Morrison of Oxford. n. H., see
retary 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 n
son of the great Hood Farm boar Lord
Premier 5 Successor, and is full broth
er to Successor S Double, sold by the
Hood Farm at the New Brunswick, y. 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 farthest dis
tance is consigned by Wendover Farms,
Bernardville, \. j.