Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-23
CITY men TO AID
BOYS RAISE PIGS
Bankers, Merchants and
Others Willing to Extend
Financial Assistance.
CLUBS NOW FORMING
]. Il. BOyce Heads Movement e.
Finance 100 or More Lads DeSir-
Gus Of Growing Thorough
bred Hogs.

movement, that every farm boy In
the eourty will take advantage OF
opportunity to obtain pig, that ne
may become started in the effort to
raise at home the meats consumed
here.
The matter of the pig club was dis
cussed at some length at the meeting
Of the farmers at the Chamber or
Commerce Saturday, and the move
ment was heartily endorsed by near
ly every man and woman present.
The plan is so simple, the results
promise to be so great that it is gen
orally believed Jefferson county. the
coming fall and winter, will have
more homegrown pork than it can
consume, and that much. therefore
will be shipped to other markets.
The plan was explained in detail
by +. N. Hopkis, editor of Arkansas
Fruit and Farm and who is also sec
Rotary of the Arkansas Profitable
Farming committee. Under the psan,
each boy is given pig for which he
promises to pay at the end OF the
year, payment to be made out of ths
profits earned by that pig or her OIL
spring. When he gets the pig, the
boy signs a promissory note for the
amount paid for the pig, and the note
bears 6 per cent. interest. The money
is advanced by some business man
merchant or banker, or any one els
interested in the movement. 1t is eX-
pected the cost Of the pig will range
from IS to IS or even $40, according
to the age of the pig at the tirnO o.
its purchase.
]. E.. Boyce, of the Cotton Belt gay
ings & Trust company, is at the hcas'
of the local committee in charge o!
the pig club work, and he is rece1v-
inc aid and cooperation from the
leading business men, farmers ane
other residents CT the city and county
The y committee is able now u
finance 100 or more boys, and It Is
confidently believed that there viii
he no difficulty furnishing pigs TO
every boy in the county, 1t was an
nounced also, at the meeting Saturt
day, that only thoroughbred pigs VII
be furnished the boys, and that II
has been learned these thoroughbreG
pigs can be purchased right here III
Jefferson county, perhaps even IN
numbers large enough to handle tins
entire jefferson county demand. Thus
all the original investment OF money
will remain at home, Just AS the final
profits will stay here, to add to IN
wealth OF the city and county.
Poultry Club Also.
The girls of the county are not be
ing overlooked by these same men,
however, as the organization of tins
poultry clubs is proceeding under the
same general plan as Is adopted foi
the pig clubs.
A pen of thoroughbred chickens is
furnished every girl who will sign
the note for the cost of the chickens
and in this case. it Is stated the cos
will be- not more than S.. The pay
ment OF this Investment will be made
out of the earnings of the pen at tn.
end OF the year, the interest will b.
but 6 per cent. and otherwise the
girls are treated exactly as are the
boys with their pigs.
Members of both the pig and this
poultry clubs must agree to follow
the rules and abide by the conditions
fixed by the federal and state farm
extension workers. which are Simple
The rules and regulations are such
as will make for the best possible re-
suits and the largest possible returns
to the boys and girls, and close adj
herence. therefore, will mean just SO
much larger profits.
Schools Are Interested.
Jefferson county's rural school
teachers and pupils are showing a
most commendable and progressive
spirit in the manner in which they
have taken up agricultural studies,
the study OF seed selection. grading,
soil conservation and others of like
nature having already been taken up.
Mr.. Hopkins, following the meet
ing at the Chamber of Commerce Sat
urday, stated that 1t is very evident
the farm boy and girl of today Is
going to be much better fixed imam
cially than are his parents, just as
mis- nareDts are better hXed than were
their parents.
I'm all our efforts for the general
adoption of the most modern meth
DDS, we are working through the
toys and girls" he said, land the re-
suits are showing already. The late
DR.. Knapp, father of the corn club
movement, erected for himself mon
ument which will stand forever. we
are following in his footsteps. con-
stantly expanding and spreading out.
He worked so successfully that the
boys have shown their farmers how
to raise corn. We are working along
the same lines. that the boys and
girls may show their parents how
EASY it is to raise on the farm every
thing consumed there, and have
something left over to sell for cash
no matter what happens. And we
also are succeeding wonderfully Wen
And the best of it is that the fathers
and mothers of the boys and girls are
helping us in every way"
Club Women to Help.
That the members of the womens
c,,,bs Of Pine Bluff are making ell
forts to aid in the WORK OF the girl
cannins clubs. the pig clubs and Tue
poultry clubs, has already been osp.