The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-05
THURSDAYS SALE
SCORED TOP PRICE
MIDSUMMER SERIES
jim ALLEN TURNER PAYS $S75
FOR BRED SOW FROM T. J.
OWEN HERD OF DuRoCS.
AVERAGE WAS ABOUT $50 HEAD
Total Of sale reduced by Number Of
Open Gilts-First Public Sale at Elk
pertinent Station Draws Splendid
Crowd.


Exceeding the top price of both of
the preceding midsummer sales of this
week but falling slightly under the
average of the Wilkes Place sale, the
combination sale Of IS head of Duroc
Jerseys from the herds of T. j. owen,
T. H. PEBBLES and M. p. Murphy at
the Experiment Station Thursday aft.
ernoon was pronounced by the owners
and buyers as entirely satisfactory.
Jim Allen Turner, son of w. l.. Tur-
ner, of Cross Bridges, paid 1915 for
bred SOW from the Owen herd, which
was the top price of this and all other
of the midsummer sales of this week.
Mr.. Owen stated soon after the sale
that he would be glad to buy this SOW
back at $500. Another top price paid
was $31250 by Ramer Bros, of Hick-
DRY Point, Tenn, for bred SOW from
the PEBBLES herd This also was
higher price that was paid for any in
dividual hog at either of the other
sales and Mr.. PEBBLES expressed re-
greet that the local buyers permitted
this sow to be taken out of the county.
The average for the IS head sold
was about 500, the total of $4,902.5O be-
ing kept down by number Of open
gifts sold at the latter part of the
sale. Leaving out the open gifts the
sale would have averaged well over
500. Practically all of the hogs were
bought by Maury countians, the prin-
cipal buyers being w. P. Ridley, Jim
Allen Turner, J. w. Ridley, r. F.
Moore &c Sons, j. B. Farmer, Keen &
Sons and D. F. Fulton. The top price
paid for a boar was $127.5O by T. H.
Murphy for fve-months' old animal
that was not catalogued. A litter.
mate boar of this one sold to Burt
Erwin for 800 f
The attendance at this, the first
public sale held at the experiment
station, was splendid, notwithstand-
ing the rain of the forenoon and the
threat of rain in the afternoon. The
sales ring was located under shed
between. tw0 of the large barns and
made an ideal place. The sale was
conducted without loss of time and
the bidding was considered good from
the beginning.
/ Col. H. L. Igleheart, auctioneer,
commended the people of Maury coun-
ty for their interest in pure bred hogs
and said that BREEDERS here had devel-
oped and brought into the county
some of the best of the Duroc Jersey
blood in America One of the boars
on exhibition was pronounced the
best he had seen in the South. He
said that if buyers should go to other
states for the same quality of stock
that they could get from the breed
ers here they would pay four or five
times as much for them.
e. A. Mclean, county agricultural
agent. announced that by the time the
next sale is held at the experiment |
station, the sales auditorium will be |
completed. He asked the people to
support the breeders who are making !
these sales possible by bidding prices
that were reasonable. He said that
the formation of Duroc Breeders AS.
ISOLATION in the county will be long
step toward making Maury county one
of the leaders in this line of hogs.
T. II. PEBBLES spoke of the county
organization and said that he hoped
that the time would soon come when
buyers could come here and secure
car loads of pure bred hogs from men,
bers of the association. He said that
the breeders entered in Thursdays
sale did not expect to get what their
hogs were worth, but that they were
willing to make sacrifice now in or
der to get the best blood scattered
through the county.