The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-13
HIGH AVERAGE
At swine SALE
Fifty-fOur Head of Berk-
shires Bring Total of
$7,668
EXCEEDS AMERICAN
CONGRESS AVERAGE
Highest Price Was $3.50 Paid by F. H.
Metcalf Of Ho.yoke, Mass, for Two
Year-Old Brood Sow - Boar Five
Years Old Brings 1915.

Fifty-four head of thoroughbred Berk-
shire swine were sold for s. ,66S yesterday
at the sale under the auspices of the New
England Berkshire club at the pavilion
of the Purebred Live Stock Sales Co. on
Vernon street, the average of sl42 ex-
eeeding by s6 the average of sl56 for ami
mails sold ~ the American Berkshire
Congress sale in Macon, Ca. recently.
The average at the sale here last year
also was higher than the average OF the
American Congress at about the same
time
While none of the swine sold for
higher price than the two-year-old brood
SOW bought yesterday forenoon by f. II.
AIetcalf of Holyoke for s450 all brought
good prices, Mr. Metcalf paying $40 for
another two-year-old Gow, Lady Longfel-
lows Double, consigned by the Wendoyer
farm of Bernardsville, " j.. the consign-
or of the $3.50 animal. Both these were
shipped to Mr.. Metcalfs Bonnielea farm
in South Hadley Falls.
Harry W knights, proprietor of Over
look Orchard farm, Littleton, Mass, was
the second highest bidder for a single
animal, when he bid off Berniees Success
sor, a five-year-old boar consigned By Jo-
seph Baker of North Grosyenordale.
Conn, for $375. -Four head were sold to
Upland Farms, Ipswich, Mass, for $50,
among them being two-year-old SOW.
Royal Lady, consigned by the Flintstone
farm at Dalton, Mass, which brought
$500. and yearling sow, Rivals Artful
Belle 35th, consigned by Samuel c. French
of Westwood,. Mass, for which Upland
farms paid 500
The largest number OF swine going to
one buyer was five which were shipped to
| Z. j. Barker of Tborntown, Ind. under
directions from L. E. Frost, editor OF the
Berkshire World, who bought them for
Mr.. Barker, paying S6l5. Brandford
FARMS, Groton, Conn, of which II. II.
Ortiz is comptroller, consignor to the
| sale, paid 500 for Successors Star Pet ID.
two-year-old sow from Mr. Bakers herd
at North Grosvenordale
A three-year-old sow from Harry w
Knights's farm in Littleton, Mass, was
sold to the Hood farm in Lowell for $40.
and four-year-old sow from the Brand
ford farms was bought by the Flintstone
farms for 500. An average of 800
was paid by James A. Spoor of Pittsheld.
Mass, who bought four head j. B. Saw
yer of Haverhil, Mass, paid $3.50 for two
head, and three head went to a Schle-
huber of Lynn, Mass, for S3i5.
Another Brandford farms sow was
struck off to s. J. RokoBski of Norwich,
| Conn, for Sl35. Two Clarlestown, n.
H. buyers were among the bidders, c.
W. Eggleston paying sil5 for Miss Pre-
mier Duke ID, consigned by j. u. c. Ty-
| Ter of West Newbury (Nt.), and James
a. Hall paying a like average when he
bought three head for s345. Four ami
mails, bringing $50. were delivered to
Ok Ridge farm, Darien, Conn, and the
Wendover farms bought two swine for
800 each.
| The top consignment OF the sale came
from Wendover farms, four head from
their herd selling for sl.l3O. including the
| two animals bought by F. H. Nletcalf.