The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-05-29
TERRY DILL AND HIS PIGS.
Stanley johnson in american
Magazine.

agricuItursts, by raising 4 pig weigh
ing 30S pounds at an expense OF &.S
cents a pound Terry Dill and his
pig have wen honors equal t. hose
attained by Jerry More a few years
ago, by ais record Of 25634 bush IS OF
corn from one acre OF land, winning,
among her distinctions, niche III
The American Masazine's Hall Il
Fame-'Interesting People" Indeed,
so far as regards Terry's achievement,
the South Carolina commissioner of
Agriculture tells me: This boy, o
my miad, has done even more in the
way of building for the future than
did Jerry Moore, for he has demon
stra. ed to the grown farmer that hog
meat can be raised a hom9 for less
than four cents per pound; something
| have been trying to drill into their
brains for the last six or seven years
Terry is 16 years old; when we con-
template the daily quo ,ations for pork
chops, ham, bacon, lard and sausage,
We may acclaim him as a bucolic
David Staying our fearsome national
Goliath-The High Price Of Living.
Terry Dill's achievement was pos
sible because Of the splendid commun-
ity spirit abounding in Greenville
county, where everybody became in
terested in the idea Of Boys pig club.
The leading daily paper in The county
offered prize of $50 10 the winner,
and a leading mercantile house paid
$50 for the winning pig. The Green
Vile Board of Trade was the umpire
in the proceeding, printing the rules
and list of prizes for distribution
throughout the county. l.. became
popular method Of advertising for
merchants to join in Offering sptcial
prizes-clothing, shoes, pocket knives,
safety razors, corn planners, and
many CHER commodities-for par leu
lar exceIlenees in pig-raising, so that
nearly every boy of the 20 contestants
with Terry had something to hope for,
ii failing the capital prize. The per-
cen.ages for determining the winner
embraced four points; gain in weight,
so; cost of feeding, 80; general condi-
ton of the pig, 10; and neatness and
completeness of the reccrd, 10. Any
kind of pig Nigh, be entered, not over
so days cid, AID he contest extend
ed from April until October. Every
monta report was filed with the sec
retary O. he Board of Trade, stating
gain in weight. amour: and kind kind
OF food given and its cost. Grass
pasturase was standardized at 29c
month, cultivated pasturage a. 75c
month, cora a $1G0 a bushel, butter
milk at 5c a gallon, and the values OF
wheat, meal, rye, c., were differ
en. lated at a rate uni .orm for ali con-
tes ants. An agent OF the Uni ed
States farm demo stration service, and
a professor of the STATE agricul ural
college acted as judges and advisers,
Finally the pig was weighed by three
disi i ertested people, and under affi-
davits the figurss for ae p pigs were
filed with he Greenville board of
trade.
The contest was very close. Terrys
was nct tne heaviest pig, and his
average gain in weigh was 400
pounds week, for he full term,
against 1885 pounds for the boy rails
ing the heaviest. On this point Terry
scored A points. Bu. the heaviest pig
cost .5.5 cents a pound, while Terry
with a cos. cf 3.S won the perfec,
score of 80 points. Another boy was
too kind altogether and spent 9.2 cents
a pound. Terry scored the perfect
70 points for the general condition
OF his pig, so i, would be unfair to
orai. the fact that, 50 far as he was
concerned, the pig was perfect IN
everything. The neatness and com
pleteness of Terry's report were only
one point short Of the perfect zen.
He won with score of SO points. The
papers throughout the South pro-
claimed the thought of the Greenville
pig club as an inspiration and Terry
Dilrs victory as the solution of the
problem of homegrown hog and
nominy"
Terry Dill's personal relations with
his pig should not pass unrecorded-
Recently a Harvard professor has de-
clared that every pig would be