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. Beyer & 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 $ 1 000 or more 



and 85 brought $5 00 or 



more. In i9i9theboar 



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 19 19 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, 



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

 Chester White female at the 1918 National Swine 

 Show. ExhibitedbyW.T. Barr, Ames, Iowa. Sold by 

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

 From photograph, by courtesy of Mr. Barr 



South Carolina, and Mississippi 



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