The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-12-04
Something About the Boys Pig
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Something About the Boys Pig |
Clubs.
Louisiana claims the distinction of
having started the Boys Pig Club work,
The first club having been organized in
The parish of Caddo in 1910.
The work is under the supervision Of
The Extension Department OF the Lou
isiana State University in cooperation
with the Bureau Of Animal Industry, U.
s. Department of Agriculture.
The Louisiana State Fair has been a
great stimulus to the pig club boys, and
this year there were twenty two parishes
Of the State represented in the pig club
contest at the annual fair, at Shreveport,
just closed.
Some Of the boys placed their hogs in
the show ring in competition with promi-
nent breeders hogs, and one Of these
youngsters took a first prize in the un-
der-six months class for sows, and stood
reserve junior champion. The owner OF
the pig, Carson Sullivan, Of Goldonna,
is a boy only eleven years Of age.
Another boy from the same place,
Curley Bryant, took second in the same
class. This boy earned the money to
purchase his pig last spring by sweep
ing out the schoolhouse which he
attends; and the remark was made by
one of the school men that Bryant had
''mopped up" to get his pig, and then
"mopped up" with his pig.
One of the most interesting features
of the boys exhibit was pig, raised by
one of the boys, that weighed 485 pounds
at eleven months, and beside it was its
litter mate raised by neighboring far
mer in the old 'sroot hog or die" manner
which weighed only IS pounds. This
was splendid object lesson and caused
a great deal of comment.
There were 100 hogs shown in the ex-
hibit by 1O7 school boys and girls be-
tween the ages of ten and eighteen
years.
Harry Means, a boy from Ida, had two
pigs on exhibition, and twelve more at
home that he raised. He has bank
account of sos which he has accumu-
INFLATED chiefly by raising hogs.
Mary Douglas, little girl from Gil
liam. had pig on exhibition that is t.
be starter for her college education
She is to receive all the money she car
make by raising hogs until she is twenty.
one years OF age.
There were fifty boys at the State Fail
who helped to take care Of the pigs and
fit them for the show ring. The breed.
ers present were so interested in thu
boys as to direct them how to get tn
best results in the fitting process.
From one agricultural school alon'
there was full carload of Grated hog
in the exhibit. This was in charge o
| w. r. Horton, Dodson.
! Four hundred dollars in money wa
given for premiums by the State Fai
Association and twenty registered hog
by the Fort Worth Stock Yards Com
pany. DIR. Nash Collins of Delhi CAV
a Berkshire pig to the boy winning tn
sweepstakes in the Berkshire class.
The Worcester Salt Company OF Dial
las, Texas, gave fifty pound sack 9
salt to each Of the prize winning boys
and the Texas Progressive Farmer, th
Trucker and Farmer, the Berkshir
World, and the Gulf States Farmer
each gave large number Of subscfip
tions to their papers to the boys maxim
the best records.
The railroads Of the State and th
State Fair Association co-operated
sending all the hogs belonging to tt
, members of the clubs to the fair and n
turn without cost to them.
The Louisiana Boys Pig Club exhib
this year was the largest and best tn
has ever been held in any state.