The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-17
RECORD
ESTABLISHED BY
DUROC SOW SALES
Two Hundred Eighteen Fine
Sows Bring $143,4S0 in
Actual Cash in Five Days
in Tri-State Section.

The aggregate OF sI42.4sO which was
realized out Of the sale Of els Duroo-
Jersey sows during the five days OF
the first 1920 Southern sales circuit.
closed Friday afternoon. established a
new worlds record for thoroughbred
Duroc SOW sales OF this duration. The
position OF the lower Mississippi valley
rs the home Of the highest grade Duroc
Jersey swine In the world was re-
affirmed by this latest record, The
average price per head was S65S.
Forty-one head Of sows were sold at
the Eastern Arkansas Demonstration
farm, at Brinkley. Ark, on Monday.
brought a total Of $50, SEQ. or an aver
age OF $3.50 per head. The top SOW, sired
BY Orion cherry King, brought 1880.
She was bought by w, S, Meng, owner
Of BridgewAy farm, Paris, Ky.
A total OF S20,S00. or an average Of
$500 per head, was realized by the sale
OF V sows on j, Bright Goodbar's Dun
treath farm, at Forest Hin, Tenn, on
> sl.i0O to Mr.. Meng. This SOW was
also sired by orion Cherry King and
was bred to Jacks Top King.
Fffty-seven head Of bred sows sold
on Tom q. James Pine Crest farm,
Charleston, Miss, Wednesday. brought
$3.50 per SOW, The Clarksdale Duroc
farm, OF ClRrksdale, Miss, Of which
Herrin Bros, and J, A, Martin are the
owners, paid the top price at this sale,
buying at $500 a SOW sired by orion
Cherry King and bred to Scissors. This
SOW vas the only daughter Of the In
nous Willetta l. j., by Jacks Friend,
The sale of SO head OF sow on
Whites Duroc farm. Columbia, Miss,
Thursday. aggregated $50, 500, or an
average. q oveF $500 a head. The top
price, 50, 900, wAs paid for A Lady, the
grand champion sow at the Tri-Stale
fair in Memphis In 1918, that had been
bought from Pine Crest farm by Whites
and bred to Jackson's orion King. She
was bought for n Georgia firm.
The closing sale was held on Friday
at the Enochs farms, Fernwood. Miss,
90 eows bringing n total Of SIS, t6t, or
an average OF $3.50 a head. The top
price Of this sale Mas 3 ESQ, being
paid for "A sow sired by Joe Orion II
and bred to Fannle's Orio. The pur-
chaser was Tom q. James. A SOW
sired by Orion Cherry King was bought
at this sale BY Meng for $1,000 and
later sold % James for s2;2bo
ton. w. X. Herrin, of the Clarksdale
Duroc farm. sold six Scissors open
Eiits for n total Of $4,000, or an av-
erage Of $500.
Illustrating the large profits that a
he made upon pure hred noRS OF the
quality that the five farms on this
circuit produce, Mr., Winter, a farmer,
Of Holcomb, In Yalobusha county, Miss,
bought a SOW bred to Scissors from
Pine Crest farm in August, 1919, for
S4iN, This SOW farrowed nine pigs,
which James recently bought back for
1900, At his sale at PIN Crest We'd
nesday he sold six OF these pigs for a
total OF $2,S50, One of the pigs died
after he bought them, but after this
sale OF six for $3.50 more than he
had paid for them, he had two left.
Mr.. Winter, who bought the SOW for
-s4i0. still had the sows and $4,000 in
cash.
The next puroc-Jersey sales circuit
win be held March e, % and ~, but
this time will be confined to the Mlssis-
alppi farms included In the circuit just
closed, the Arkansas and Tennessee
farms being left out. However, another
full circuit OF sales Is planned for July
and August Of this year.
The heaviest buyers In the circuit
lust closed were Ohio breeders, show
Ing that the Northern breeders ARE
coming South for the stock to improve
their breed lines. but Southern buyers
made them pay top prices for good
stock.
Every one OF the sales mentioned in
this article was bona fide, with actual
cash paid on the spot for the SOW
purchased.