Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-09-08

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Chesterwhite 100 $.os6 1856 L'royPeterson
-Chesterwhite 1872 ~ .oSs go A yMorkassel
Chesterwhite 1873 90 .066 IS AntonJohnson
Ole. 1881 .O6 $50 NormnIverson
Duroc Jersey 81 Milton Warner
Andy Morkassel and Leroy Peter
son came out ahead as indicated in
the aobve report This closes the
State pig contest and the boys will /
soon know how they fare. The con-
test for the county closes in Novem-
Der and l am of the opinion that the
boys are going to surprise US. The
following have enrolled for that:
Selmer Hilleboe, Norman Iverson,
Leroy Peterson, Andy Morkassel, An
ton Johnson, and Milton Warner.
Each boy is taking care of "a litter.
The boys that have the lead now have
had pasture for their pigs and have
given the work close attention, as you
will notice in the report from one of
them. The parents have taken con-
siderable interest in this work, and |
for one, want to thank you for it. 1t
means great deal to the boy or girl
to have the father or mother sympa-
thize with them and show an interest
in the work that the children are do
ing. Your boy or girl is worth more
than the farm or the money, that you
men and women came from good
rnne and women came from good
homes.
The winning pig Of Andy Morkas
sci was sent down to the State Fair,
Friday evening of last week, by ex-
press.
The spring wheat on the school
farm went At bushels to the acre and
the winter wheat 48.
Story of Raising My Litter of Pigs.
My father came home from town
one day and said that Mr.. Neraal, di-
rector of Agriculture Of the Warren
High School, wanted me to go in on
the pig contest for the year of 1915.
thot it would be fun to go in on
that, as l was in the corn growing
contest last year and had pretty good
success at that. won registered
0. I. c. pig at the grain show in War
rem, Minnesota. The pig was valued
at $500 and I thot this was good, as
I am only a boy Of eleven years of
age. I am in the corn growing con-
test this year too, you bet
I asked father what sow should
have, and he said, "any Of them," as
they did not any Of them have little
pigs yet. picked one that was big
and fat, so fat that she dragged he1
stomach on the ground and coulc
hardly walk. thot she would have
the most pigs. A short time after
that father locked them up in separ
ate pens and my SOW he took up into
a little pasture, where we had kept {
big boar the summer before, and W.
fixed up little house for her there
Well, fathers sows had little pig!
all of them, except one, before mine
and they had from eight to clever
pigs, and l began to think he was go
ing to beat me. One Sunday we ha.
company at our house and they wer'
all up looking at my sow and she wa
then acting like she was sick. Sh,
was carrying straw in her mouth int
the little house we had built for her
After the company had taken littl
supper and about an hour after, W.
went up and looked to see what / ha.
and l found that had fourteen littl
pigs in my pen. / can tell you al
that l was SO glad that just jumped
Then father went over to See the las
sow Of his and he found that she ha,
ten little pigs, and had killed one O
hers, so he took one of mine and CAV
to his SOW as he thot that mine woul,
not feed all Of them, so that left M
with thirteen pigs. 1t Wassnot an I'm
lucky number, however,ssforaI raise,
4hem all without losing any
Then my work began.@ The pig
were born on the ninth Of May and
had the entire care Of them myself.
would run up to see my pigs believ
every hour for the first few days, an,
see so their mother did not lay dow
on any Of them. She was so goo.
that l could crawl right into the pei
with her and move the pigs aroun,
just as ! wanted to and she would no
get up.
Oh, yes, I forgot-what pigs the,
were. They were what they call tn
Chester White. Their mother was no
full blooded but their father was.
| must say a little about the feed
ing of my pigs. | fed my SOW an
pigs at first mostly milk, as we hav
few cows and separate our milk a
home. l mixed little ground oat
and barley with the milk. We did no
have very much corn at thai time
got about three bushels Of corn a