The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-01-17
TWO BIG DUROC
HOE SALES FOR
MAURY COUNTY
J.f1. FARMER, OF WILKES PLACE
SELLS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
~ 9TH AT CuLLEOkA.
KEEN & SONS OF COLUMBIA
Sell at Moore & Sons Barn in Co.
lumbia, Monday, February 3rd--
About 100 Head Of the Best Bred
Types OF this Strain of Hogs.


Two Of the largest Duroc hog sales
over held in Maury county will take
Lace here in February, when Keen
Il Sons Of Highland Farm, of Column
bia. and j. B. Farmer, of Wilkes
Place. Culleoka, will sell at auction
about one hundred and ten head of the
choicest bred sows and gifts OF the
Dnroc strain of swine ever offered for
sale at any auction in Maury county,
or this section of the country.
Keen & Sons will sell Monday, Feb
ruard 3rd at Moore & Sons sale barn
III Columbia, and the following day
Tuesday. February 4th, Mr.. Farmer
will sell sixty head of bred sows and
sits at his home Wilkes Place near
culleoka. It was the privilege of the
writer few weeks ago to visit Wilkes
Place and look over Mr. Farmers
hogs, and especially over the sixty
that were being prepared for this sale.
There never wa5 gotten together a
more uniform bunch Of hogs in one lot,
and with the uniformity of size was
coupled the conformation, and color,
and the breeding is Of the best.
Mr.. Farmers consignment of hogs
are bred to such boars as ]. BIS.
Orion Cherry King, by Orion Cherry
King; DIS. ForecaBter, pronounced the
finest Duroc boar ever in the south,
q 1000 pound son Of Defender; and
King Forecaster, by DIS Forecaster.
MIR. Farmer will have at his sale Hon.
or Brayton Of the Duroc Bulletin, Geo
rye r. Hooks of the Progressive
Farmer and Robert J. Evans, OF tho
American Duroc Breeders Association.
His aucfioneers win be Fl. L. lyle.
heart and Son, and F. D. Hengst The
Red Cross ladies OF Culleoka will fur
nish dinner and the sale will begin
promptly at one o'clock in the es-
pecially prepared pavilion, which is
heated. Automobiles will meet the
buyers from d distance at the Station
at Cu'leoka, Or can 90 from Columbia
in ,autos.
Keen & Sons will hold their sale
in the large pavilion at Moore& Sons
barn in Columbia. Ample seating capa-
city with straw will be provided for
the buyers and any visitors desiring
to attend the sale.
They are offering fifty head Of
highly bred sows and gifts bred to
Highland Orion Cherry King, by Orion
Cherry King and out OF a Pals Col
SOW, and Is almost full brother to
the Great Orion, national grand chap
ion boar for 1918, who sold for $4,000
and whose spring boars sold for an
average OF $4,000. About twenty of
the consignment are bred to Highland
Defender Major, sold by Mckee Bros
for $1,000 and said to be the best boar
eyer raised on the Mckee farm. This
sale will begin promptly at one o'clock
, Tho auctioncers will be Igleheart 4
! Son, and Il. r. Moore. Homer Bray
ton, of Duroc Bulletin, and George
r., Hooks, Of the Progressive Farm,
er, and Robert J. Evans of the Ameri
Gan Duroc Breeders Association will
be In attendance upon this sale also
These two Jales coming as they do
,qpo Immediately following the other
will no doubt attract large number
OF buyers to Maury COUNTY from 4
distance, and as both Keen and Farm
CT have splendid regulations as breed
ers OF the Droc hog. this will make
the attendance even larger. These
two breeders hold their sale twice
each year, in tho winter and in the
. late summer or early fall
Maufy county il fast forging to the
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