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herdbooks have been published, including the registration of 

 90,000 pigs. The National Berkshire Record Association was 

 organized March i, 1893, at Indianapolis, Indiana. This society 

 up to 1905 had published seven herdbooks, including the regis- 

 tration of about 9000 animals. This organization is now defunct. 

 The British Berkshire Herdbook, published by the British Berk- 

 shire Society, first appeared in 1885. Twenty volumes have thus 

 far appeared, registering about 10,000 animals. 



High prices for Berkshire pigs have been paid to a limited 

 degree. In 1889 Mr. N. H. Gentry sold the yearling boar 

 Model Duke 17397 at private sale to Andrew Smith of Cali- 

 fornia for $750. Mr. Gentry paid $700 for Lord Liverpool 221 

 in England, and states that he sold about $7000 worth of his 

 direct offspring, and also received about $1500 in cash for his 

 services on sows sent him by breeders from all over the country. 

 Along in the seventies the boar Robin Hood 80 1 was sold 

 for $1400 by T. S. Cooper of Pennsylvania to W. C. Norton of 

 Pennsylvania. The three-year-old boar Columbia's Duke 33855 

 sold at the Reuben Gentry auction on November 16, 1898, at 

 Springfield, Illinois, for $1200 to Berry & Juneman of Barclay, 

 Illinois, the highest price ever paid at auction for a Berkshire 

 pig up to that time. In 1903 Mr. G. C. Council of Illinois paid 

 Mr. N. H. Gentry $1500 for the boar Lord Premier 50001 by 

 Baron Lee IV 33446. This boar died in 1905, after which Mr. 

 Council bought Premier Longfellow 68600 of Mr. Gentry for 

 $2000. In 1905 Mr. A. J. Lovejoy of Illinois sold the boar 

 Masterpiece 77000 to W. S. Corsa of the same state for $2500. 

 In the summer of 1906 James Qurollo of Missouri sold to F. W. 

 Morgan of Wisconsin the Berkshire boar Lord Bacon 87415 for 

 $3000. This boar was sired by Speculator 80081, a son of 

 Masterpiece. On August 29, 1906, at the auction sale of G. C. 

 Council of Illinois, the boar Lord Premier's Rival 92805 sold 

 for $3200 to I. L. Weirick of the same state. Lord Premier 2d 

 92708 at the Council sale was sold to Overt on Hall Farm of 

 Tennessee for $1600, the highest price yet paid for a Berkshire 

 under 12 months of age. Many Berkshire pigs have changed 

 hands at $100 to $500 per head. 



