Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21

Ham and Bacon cluO.
. Each boy must secure at least one
pig.
3. The boy must care for his pig in
person and keep a record of the feed
given and the pasturage graZed. lie
must record the weight of the pig when
il comes into his possession and the
date it was narrowed. He must also
weigh the pig at stated intervals to de-
termine gains.
4. Record blanks furnished by the
county agent should be filled out and
signed by the owner of the pigs. Mem
bers who make meat Of their pigs should
send In their records when the pigs are
ready TO be butchered.
5. Each member must have owned a
pig and kept a record of il for at last
four months to compete for a prize.
6. Members of the club must agree
to study the instruction sent them by
the College of Agriculture and the U.
s. department of agriculture.
Z. To win a state or capital prize,
each member must exhibit at least one
pure-bTed pig, or exhibit ham and pa
con at the county contest, and the WIN
ners at the county fair must show
their pigs or meat at the state contest
s. To win a certificate of honor
member must have owned and cared
for a pure-bred. registered pig for pc
riod of not less than four months, and
must produce a complete record show
ing 100 pounds or more of gain at a
cost of cents a pound or less. The
pig must be a Berkshire, POland-China,
Duroc Jersey, or Hampshire.
The following values should be used
in charging feeds to the pigs:
Corn, rs cents per bushel or Sl.SS
per hundred weight; corn meal, $40
per hundred weight; shorts, s1.7S per
hundred weight; bran, $3.50 per hundred
weight; skim milk or buttermilk, 80
cents per hundred weight, or approx
mately 1-2 cents per gallon; perma-
nent pasture 10 cents per head per
month.
If oats. rape, crimson clover, bur clo-
yer, alfalfa, cowpeas, soy beans, pea
nuts, sweet potatoes or sorghum are
used they should be charged at 20 cents
per head per month. No charge should
be made for waste from the table or
kitchen slop.
All records must be completed before
the club member can show his pig or
cured meat in any contest In making
the award of prizes the pig counts 40
points out of a possible loo. The rate
of gain counts Is points, the cheapness
Of gain counts 20 points, the neatness
and completeness of the record counts
20 points.
one OF the strange features Of Georgia
meat production. according to the last
census, is found in the quality of meat
produced in the southern part of the
state as compared with the northern
.part of the thirty-three counties cred
tied with producing their own meat
supplies, all but two are in the southern
part where the weather is most uncer-
tain for meat curing. In,north Georgia,
where conditions lend themselves most
admirably TO meat saving and curing
much of the supply is bought.
Previous to starting pig clubs and
other methods of encouraging the pro-
auction of more and better hogs, the
state was importing about forty million
dollars worth Of meat a year.
The ham and bacon division Of the
Boys Pig clubs, designated and INTENDED
as a provision for boys who cannot get
pure bred pigs and are forced to grow
a grade or common hog, is lending its
aid and encouragement to home raised
meat on the farm.
Exhibits made by members in the fall
of 1915 at the fairs Of the various coun-
ties, served as splendid object lessons OF
the capable manner in which the hogs
had been handled. They were a sourcc
Of interest to young and old alike that
called forth much favorable comment.
At the Wayne County fair the exhibit
of the pig club members was the first
display of pure bred hogs owned and
raised in the county. There was not
pure bred hog for sale in the county
when pig clubs were introduced.
The Tattnall bank at Reidsville, do
mated 81 to be left on deposit with the
bank for one year as a foundation to q
savings fund for each pig club and corr
club member who exhibited at the coun'
/ " contest.
Bibb county offered a splendid object
/ lesson in hog raising. The county
agents report reads as follows:
I've had forty head Of pure breC
Figs at our county contest. OF thii
number thirty were Duroc Jerseys, sever
were Berkshires and three Chestei
Whites. The pigs raised by the boyi
and girls were the main attraction. Thu
old fellows who have been saying We
could not raise 3OO-pound pig in twelve
months. saw some 40O-pound hogs tina
were grown in eleven months"
At the Georgia-Florida fair in 1914