The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-05-23
HOG RAISING ON
INCREASE IN NEWBERRY
Mr. T.. N. Mills Succeeds Beyond Ex.
pectatioa in Securing Car Hogs
from Farmers-Will Encourage Hog
Raising. =

from Farmers-Will Encourage Hog
Raising. i
Mr.. T NJ. Mills, the live and ener-
get!c county demonstration agent for
Newberry county, some time ago un-
6ertook to assist the farmers of New
berry to dispose of their surplus hogs
at good price. He has succeeded
beyond his expectations. There are
lots Of hogs in the county and while
Mr. Mills thought he might get one
smafl car load when the hogs began
to come on Tuesday he found that he
had enough for two cars. Instead Ut
Is or 80 hogs he had ITO.
He secured prices and it was so
we'll advertised that he had bids from
all around, some by letter and some
by wires and then there were three
dealers present to bid on the hogs
and take them T. o. b. at Newberry.
Mr.. Mills had arranged to sell them
for the farmers in Richmond and II
the bids at NewberTy had not been
satisfactory he would have shipped
the hogs, but it was decided to sell at
Newberry and this is far better be-
cause those who had hogs could Sc
cure settlement for them at snce and
know just what they were going to
receive. The hogs were sold to MT.
Green of Orangebu G who made the
best average bid on all grades. Be-
sides MIR Green Mr.. j. n. Barber
Iof Chestr and Mr.. w. r. Sanders OF
Rock Hill were present and made
bids for the lot. Several county
agents were here to see how the sale
came off. Mr.. NJ. D. Moore of Lau-
rens who recently made shipment
from that county. Mr. } " sheaiy Of
Lkxingtoa, Mr.. J. NJ. Eleazer Of sa-
luNsa ana M. J. R. Foster Of Bates
burg TEAc agent for pstts q. three
so,nunties; was also present. And q. .
q .ass Scsoys the district agent vas va:
3 present alr i. c. Mattison, IfEe-- IfEs
m stock special 81 clemson college,
vas here Ia do the gradinss ,,s. -
s. Musehs daferest was taken In the
shipment m and thirty-fiye dffereat g q
farmers and hog raisers had hogs In b
the let. Some of them we're very tine nlee'
specimens and more than half Of the
lot were made first grade or grade
No. /. Mr.. w. P. Smith of the
Ksnards. Duroc hog farm had some
fine hogs in the lot, IA in all, and the
lot weighed $3.50 pounds, averaging
over 250 pound each. Next largest
seller was. Mr.. W. B. Marlborough
who had six hogs weighing l,7So,
nearly 800 pounds each. The total
weight of the lot was 23.490 pounds.
No. / grade, 14,4o2; No. 2, 1850: No.
3. 1888. The No. / grade was sold
at 1875; No. 2 at te.25; No. 3 at
1925. The lot brought the farmers
ss,ss7.2s, or an average for the lot OF
s36.24 each. It imposed a good bit OF
work upon Mr.. Mills but he seemed
to take pleasure in it because felt
that he was serving the best interest
of the farmers of the county and en-
couraging them to engage IN hog
raising instead of devoting all their
time to the growing OF cotton. he
expects to ship Or to sell for the
farmers another car or more than
one during the coming fall. It pays
to raise hogs and now that it is seen
that a market can be had and that
there is demand for hogs the farmers
should devote more attention to the
raising Of them.
The following are the names OF
those who sold in the car just ship
ped and the number of hogs each had
and the weight:
NJ. B. Caldwell, three hogs, $40
pounds; o. c. Dominick one, 30
pounds; Geo. Ruff one, 32o pounds;
D. l.. Boozer two, $40 pounds; R. T.
Pugh two, 700 pounds; l.. E. Sum-
mer one, 80 pounds; c. W. crump-
ton one, 23O pounds; E. o. Counts
three, e1o pounds; Mrs. MA. Rem
wick one, 26o pounds; l.. c. Har-
grove six, 500 pounds; c. C. Jones
one, 4so pounds; J. E. and J. s..
Renwick four, S20 pounds; j. B.
Cromer two, 42o pounds; W. W.
Riser three, $50 pounds; w. P.
Smith fourteen, $3.50 pounds; T. J.