The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11

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can be raised at home for less than
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
contemplate the daily quotations fol-
pork chops, ham, bacon, lard and
sausage, we may justly acclaim him
as a bucolic David Staying our fear
some national Goliath-the high
price of living.
Terry Dill's achievement was pos
sible because of the splendid COM
munity spirit abounding in Green
vile county, where everybody be-
came interested in the idea Of
Boys Pig Club. The leading daily
paper in the county offered prize
of $50 to the winner, and leading
mercantile house paid $50 for the
winning pig. The Greenville board
of trade was the umpire in the pro-
ceeding, printing the rules and list
Of prizes for distribution throughout
the county. 1t became a popular
method of advertising for merchants
to join in Offering special prizes
clothes, shoes, pocketknives, safety
razors, corn planters, and many 9TH
er commodities-for particular e4-
cellence in pig raising, so that near
" every boy of the twenty contest
ants with Terry had something to
hope for, if failing the capital prize
The percentages for determining the
winner embraced four points: Gain in
weight, so; cost of feeding, 80; gen
eral condition of the pig, 10; and
neatness and completeness Of the
record, 10. Any kind of pig might
be entered, not over sixty days old,
and the contest extended from April
until October. Every month "a re-
port was filed with the secretary OF
the board of trade, stating gain in
weight, amount and kind of food Civ
en- and it's cost. Grass pasturage was
standardized at 25 cents month,
cultivated pasturage at Is cents a
month, corn at 81 bushel, butter
milk at 5 cents a gallon, and the
values of wheat, meal, rye, etc., were
differentiated at rate uniform for
all contestants. An agent of the
United States farm demonstration
service, and professor of the State
agricultural college acted as judges
and advisers. Finally the pig was
weighed by three disinterested peo-
pie, and under affidavit the figures
for the twenty-one pigs were filed
with the Greenville board of trade.
The contest was very close. Terry's
was not the heaviest pig, and his
average gain in weight was 14.55
pounds a week, for the full term,
against 1855 pounds for the boy
raising the heaviest. On this point
Terry scored "A points. But the
heaviest pig cost SIS cents a pound
while Terry's, with cost Of 3.8,
won the perfect score of 80 points.
Another boy was too kind altogether
and spent go cents a pound. Terry
scored the perfect 10 points for the
general condition" of his pig, so it
would be unfair to omit the fact
that, so far as he was concerned, the
pig was perfect in everything. The
neatness and completeness of Terry's
reports were only 1 point short Of
the perfect 10. He won with a score
of 90 points. The papers throughout
the South proclaimed the thought of
the Greenville Pig club as an inspira-
ton, and Terry Dill's victory as the
solution of the problem of home
grown "hog and hominy."
Terry Dill's personal relations with
his pig should not pass unrecorded.
Recently, a Harvard professor has
declared that every pig would be a
gentleman if he had a chance; but
before this erudite oracle had pro-
claimed this truth Terry had proved
it. He gave his pig the chance, and
he proved a marvel of personal clean
illness. Terry built the pen himself,
southwest of a large barn sheltered
from the north winds and in posi-
ton where it could catch ell the sun
light. Every day Terry carefully
"manicured' him with currycomb
and a horse brush, until, as Terry
expresses it, che was as fat and slick
as a butter ball." He also made him
a new bed each day. A few days be-
fore the period Of the contest was
to end Terry's pig caught cold and
became hoarse. In CONSERVATION
Terry devised a remedy of kerosene
and grease and swabbed out his
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