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basis. For example, two men owned a half interest in a boar, 

 which they sold by shares, ten shares being issued. Each owner 

 reserved one share and then offered the other eight at auction. 

 Thus ten men came into ownership of a boar, eight giving security 

 in notes or cash, usually the former. By such a plan eight shares 

 of interest in the boar Chief Perfection 2d were sold in July, 1903, 

 for $13,850, eight men bidding off the shares at sums ranging 

 from $1500 to $2000 each. On the basis of purchase the boar 

 was valued at $34,625, an absurd proposition on the face of it. 

 Such sales for a season made a great furor, but soon became dis- 

 credited and were discontinued. Among noteworthy sales of regular 

 form is that of King Medium on December 23, 1896, which sold 

 for $ 1 02 5 , the highest auction-sale price to that date. Happy Union 

 34511 at the Howard and McAllister sale in Iowa, in 1897, sold 

 for $4000 to the Happy Union Stock Company. The same year 

 Look-Me-Over 19417, another boar, sold for $3600 at the Hart & 

 Minnis sale at Edinburg, Illinois. In 1905 the boar Meddler 

 99999 sold for $3000 to Edward Ware. In August, 1907, at 

 Eldon, Missouri, at Goodrich Farm, the litter of pigs of the sow 

 Cute-Keep-On 237084 A sold for a total of $13,060. Of these 

 the boar Ten Strike was sold to T. M. Chambers of Kansas for 

 $5125; another pig, Storm Center, went to William Wingate of 

 Missouri for $4250 ; while a third, Sure Shot, sold to Alters and 

 Belshaw of Illinois for $2 1 50. Forty-three head in this sale brought 

 $25,160. In 1918 the boar Colonel Jack 288991 was sold by 

 Fred Sievers of Iowa for $10,200 to George Klosterman & Sons 

 of Ohio. This same year Peter Mouw of Iowa sold the noted boar 

 Gerstdale Jones 244187 to Carter and Van Deventer of Missouri 

 for $6600. Wonder Buster 9971 5 was also sold by W. B. Wallace 

 to Carter and Van Deventer for $5300. In 1919 the Silver Brook 

 Farm of Indiana sold the big-type boar Mountain Bill 111963 to 

 E. E. Furver of Iowa for $5000. Also the big-type boar Moun- 

 tain Giant 107101 was sold by E. J. Emrick & Sons of Ohio to 

 Myer Brothers of Nebraska for $5000. This same year two other 

 notable sales were made, William Wrigley, Jr., paying $15,000 

 for The Clansman 103093, and Uittenbogaard, Henry, & Wegter, 

 on August 14, paying $25,200 for the boar Evolution 331333. 

 Up to 1917 but few sows. of the breed had reached four figures, 



