The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-14

If the business men c. Brunswick
! and Glynn county really wish to see
Brunswick grow, if they would like to
see farming in this county put of the
most profitable basis, if they would
like to see the country districts filled
with fine registered hogs and Il meat
packing plant made possible for
Brunswick, then they should respond
quickly to the call of the Board of
| Trade for ten men to volunteer as
founders of the Glynn County Pig
club, and make possible the immedi-
ate execution of "A plant that will put
thousands of fine porkers in Glynn
county within two or three years.
The plan, announced by the Board
Of Trade. is not new In the form
proposed, it was put into effect by the
Macon chamber of commerce last
fell. Secretary Johnson of the Macon
organization talked of it to A. M.
Smith, then secretary manager Of the
Georgia chamber OF commerce, who
secured 100 of the folders describing
the plan and sent them out with a
letter to all of the chambers of com
merce and boards of trade in Georgia
with letter suggesting that the same,
or similar, plan be tried in their com
munihes, with the result that Balm
bridge and number of other places
adopted the plan and went to work.
Splendid success is reported by the
Macon chamber of commerce to
"cover Bibb county with pork" as Sec
retary Johnson put it. The following
is quoted from one of The circulars got
ten out by the Macon Pig club:
"Thc Macon chamber of commerce
has arranged to give each of 25 boys
in Bigg county, during the spring of
1916, one pig with which to start in
the business of raising hogs Each
boy is TO return two pigs to the cham
Der of commerce and keep the original
hog with the balance of the pigs
Then the same process is TO be repeat
ed each year until every boy in Bibb
county will be in the pig business The
whole matter is to be in charge of w
&. Middlebrooks, Bibb county farm
demonstration, and handled by him as
best suits the boys and in conformity
with the rules governing pig clubs
Our object in starting this pig club
is to help worthy boys to help them
selves and to encourage the raising Of
better hogs in Bibb county"
The names of 25 progressive banks
and business men are even in the
folder as having each donated SIG as
founders Of the club, making a fund of
$3.50 to purchased registered pigs with
This is two and one-half times what
the Board of Trade of Brunswick is
attempting to raise to launch the
Glynn County Pig club, but If it il
found there are more than ten citizens
Of the county sufficiently patriotic or
interested TO run the amount over $100l
total, the Board Of Trade will gladly
increase the number Of pigs to bei
given to deserving boys in Glynn
county.
The selection of the pigs, the super
vision of the raising Of them by the
boys, and the handling Of the "toll'
Of two pigs to be returned by each boy
from the first litter by which con.
stantly increasing supply of pigs will
be available TO the club to start other
boys on the road to prosperity, will be
delegated to j. l.. Dunn, farm demon
stration agent for Glynn county, who
has been working on the idea for some
time, and is confident that the plan,
ii carried out, will make Glynn county
great hog. raising county, and give
a greater and quicker impetus to the
settling up Of the wild lands than any.
thing else possibly could do. The won
dcrfully fast rate at which this plan
would fill the county with hogs, is
shown by the fact that, figuring there
would be two litters Of pigs from each
SOW within IS months and ten pigs to
each litter, there should be around
900 additional hogs in the county by
the end Of year and a half That
these figures are conservative, is
known. Two litters year may well be
expected, and an average Of rather
more than ten pigs to the litter
Mr. Dunn calls attention to the fact
that Glynn county has already puTchas
ed very fine registered boar for
breeding purposes for the benefit OF
all ga ft,t tt, tot, tI