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Article from the local newspaper in 1938: ----------------------- Martin Berg's LINDBERG May Go to World's Fair in 1939 ----------------------- Thirteen hundred pounds is "a lot of hog," yet that's the approximate weight of Lindberg, two-year-old Poland China owned by Martin Berg of Wheeler township. Thought to be the heaviest hog in the world, he is still putting on weight. Although he doesn't eat any more than the average animal, Lindberg has been gaining at the rate of 50 pounds a month. A little more than two months ago he weighed 1,180 pounds. Officials of the Poland China association have informed Mr. Berg that they have no record of any other hog of that breed weighing more than 1,140 pounds. Now two years and three months old, the animal was raised by R. O. Lindskoog and sold to E. J. Berg, from whom he was purchased by Martin Berg. The name, Lindberg, is a combination of the names of his owners, Lindskoog and Berg. Hot weather hasn't bothered the giant hog as much as one might think. In fact, Mr. Berg says the animal has been able to stand the heat better than other hogs on the farm. Because of his great weight, however, he seldom walks around the lot for more than a few minutes at a time. Lindberg is a "big" attraction on the Berg farm, and hundreds of persons have been to see him during the last few weeks. There were 108 people there on Sunday, and 50 to 75 in the average number of weekend visitors. If the mammoth hog lives and keeps on gaining, Mr. Berg plans to take him to the World's fair in 1939. |
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Photo courtesy of the Sjogren family.