The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-21
THE BOY AND THE PIG

brightest and most ambitious farmer
boys in his neighborhood, with the
understanding that at the end OF the
year the boys were to return one pig,
and those pigs were to be given to
twenty-five other boys, and so one ad
infinitum in an endless chain, until
Mississippi would become known as
the greatest hog raising state in the
nation.
There is still another plan that
comes from the same state The clip
ping is from the Columbus (Miss.)
Commercial:
If the banks generally throughout
the south would follow this plan. the
cotton problem would be solved, like
wise the boy problem" to large
extent. The waiver from Dad" is
an important part of the scheme, for
too many fathers ignore in toto their
obligations to their boys.
The plan is outlined in the Com
mercial as follows:
The First State Bank is arranging
to start Boys Pig Club, which will
no doubt mean much for the county.
What is Boys Pig Club? 1t is a
club of hundred boys, who each
borrow enough money from the bank
to buy one pig, which they sell at
the end Of the year, paying their
notes to the bank for their invest
ment and keeping the profit.
The bank hopes to secure hun
dred boys in this county who will join
the club and carry out their part of
the contract. Here are the require
ments of the boy and the general
plan of the club:
First-Each boy must come recon-
mended as to his honesty and thrift,
such recommendation to come from
his school teacher superintendent,
trustee, banker, business man or
farmer.
Second-He must give a note, bear
ing per cent interest, for the cost
of the pig, which he will be furnished
The bank will neither accept endorse
ment nor make a mortgage upon the
pig, but make the boy feel. first, the
importance of his obligation to the
man who recommended him, and
second, his financial obligation.
Third-He must agree to raise not
less than one-half acre of feed for his
pig.
FOurth-The bank requires a waiv
er from his parents or guardian that
' the boy is the sole owner, and that
he. the parent or guardian, viii
neither claim the profits nor increase
OF same.
Fifth -Neighborhood clubs OF 81,
seven or eight boys will draw for the
male pig The boy receiving the
male must agree to give service t.
the boys who have female pigs ant
receive payment for service amont
his fellow club members. BY thi:
plan the boy with the male will re
ceive an increase as well as the boy
with the female pigs,
Every boy in this county wh'
wants to make a start in life 70
himself is urged to call at the banl
and get full information about tn
same The plan adopted here is tn
plan which has proved SO successful
over the country, and it will prove
tremendous boon to the livestock in
tercsts of the county.
I'm this county we have six banks
four in Ocala, one at Dunnellon AM
one at Mcintosh These banks coul
start a Boys Pig Club, say the large
one with twenty-five members an,
the smaller ones with ten or fifteer
this would give us more than on
hundred members in all the Pig Club
in the county. and as they wer
shown to be successful they coul
increase from year to year.
1t looks like good proposition an
one that possesses wonderful poss
bilities.
Let our banks get busy.-Ocal
Banner.