The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-08
Press Comment
Purebred Swine Breeding
and Sales.

Purebred swine breeding has be-
come an industry of vast importance
in Florida and Georgia within a very
few years. 1t is not so very long ago
that purebred swine in this section
of country were something of Curl
osity. But their introduction quickly
proved the adaptalbility of conditions
in these states of the southeast for
the best of success in breeding and
raising these animals and establishing
an industry at once profitable and of
general Importance So, in few years,
Florida and Georgia have reached the
stage of breeding and raising pure
bred wine that are the equal, and in
some recent notable instances, the SUI
perior of any other produced any
where in the country, including the
famous "corn-belt" section of the mid
die west
Purebred swine breeding has reach
ed such a state of advanced develop
ment in Florida and Georgia that it is
now possible TO establish profitable
sale circuits on which there are as
many as five sales in one week and at
which public auctions there are to be
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some of the very finest types of the
choicest breeds of swine, sales that
will run into the thousands of dollars
as representing the prices to be paid
by purchasers who have become con-
WINGED of the merit and value of pure
bred hogs.
The circuit of sales above alluded to
starts today at Pierce, Fla, to be fol-
lived tomorrow with another at Evin-
ston also in this state, and then with
three more, as follows: At Cochran,
Alley and Beryton, all in Georgia, on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the
places and in the order named. At
every one of these sales only the best
of hogs, bred and raised on these var
ious farms, will be offered for sale.
wide territory high-class breeding
stock that will be employed to enlarge
enormously the purebred swine, indus
try in this and adjacent states.
At a number of these purebred hog
sales held in the past, in this territory,
the purchasers who have paid the
highest prices have come from other
states, even from. those In which for
years past purebred swine and cattle
have held high rank. More recently the
tendency has been for more and more
home people to realize the value of
these home bred and raised animals
and to become purchasers. Thus the
purebred education is shown to be
spreading. that already it is number
ing by thousands those who have
learned and who are profiting by dis
carding scrubs whether of cattle or
hogs, a worthy educational purpose
and are also helping to establish firm
ly a swine breeding and swine raising
industry that is already worth millions
of dollars annually in the states of
Florida and Georgia-Times-U Union.
Hopeful View for the New Year.
John Wanamaker long has had the
reputation of being one of the most
level-headed business men in America
Aside from his recognized statesman
ship, his principal achievements have
been as a merchant. His sound views
on merchandising have been closely
followed by the other successful mer-
chants of the country
AS a merchant he naturally has kept
in intimate touch with the producing
sources. Too few merchants do this.
Many are content with maintaining
touch only with the jobbers and i'm
porters. Their minds do not reach back
to the man at the loom or bench.
In the interview given by Mr.. Wan
amaker yesterday to The Herald he