THE CHESTER WHITE 



747 



$203.88. The sow Our Maid 3d 86502, National Swine Show 

 grand champion for 1917, sold for $1005 to A. G. Satre of Iowa. 

 In 1919 Miss Leonora 4th 100772, champion at the- National- 

 Swine "Show, sold on February 19 at the W. T. Barr auction in 

 Iowa for $4200 to B. M. Boyer & Sons of Iowa. At this sale of 

 Mr. Barr 40 head averaged $557 each. The top price on a boar 

 was $6000, paid by M. F. Black of Nebraska for Wildwood 

 Prince, Jr., 34827, champion at the National Swine Show in 

 1918. In 1918 the average price paid for 5456 sows sold at public 

 auction was $136.75. 

 Seven of these sows 

 brought $1000 or more 

 and 8 5 brought $ 5 oo or 

 more. Ini9i9theboar 

 King Anak 69539, 

 junior champion at the 

 National Swine Show, 

 was bought by C. F. 

 Brown of Webster City, 

 Iowa, for $2000. Prince 

 32743 was purchased 

 for $3000 in 1919 by 

 Henry Wiemers, Dil- 

 ler, Nebraska. 



The distribution of 

 the Chester White is 



widespread in the United States, but more especially in the corn- 

 belt section. The Chester White Record Association has a large 

 membership, distributed over forty-eight states, with Illinois, In- 

 diana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin 

 furnishing a large share of the total. In recent years the breed 

 has steadily grown in favor in the above-named states, but has not 

 increased much elsewhere. Some sections of the eastern United 

 States, especially Pennsylvania, have long looked with favor on this 

 breed, but work in its behalf is not active, as in the West. For 

 reasons already given, the distribution in the South is quite nominal, 

 though it has found a few advocates in Kentucky, West Virginia, 

 South Carolina, and Mississippi. 



FIG. 348. Miss Leonora 4th 100772, grand-champion 

 Chester White female at the 1918 National Swine 

 Show. Exhibited by W.T. Barr, Ames, Iowa. Sold by 

 Mr. Barr in 1919 to B. M. Boyer & Sons for $4200. 

 From photograph, by courtesy of Mr. Barr 



