Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-27
MANY ENLISTING
FOR PIG CLUBS
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PR1ZES-All pig club members who
complete their work and make their
final reports may compete for national,
state, county and local prizes offered
by pig club work. Prizes will consist
Of educational trips and various other
awards. Each member should inquire
of his local or county leader concern
ing prizes
EXHIBITS-Membe may exhibit
their pigs at any local, county or 9th
err pig show wherever eligible. Exhib-
its may be made either before or after
the close Of the feeding period. II
made before the close Of the feeding
period the member should take espec-
tally good care of the pig during the
/ exhibit so there will be the least pos
sible interruption of gain. It is recon-
mended that at pig shows the awards
be made on the following conditions:
That the exhibitor be men,
Der of the pig club in good stand
| ing.
That the award be made on the
individuality OF the pigs without
reference to feeding record.
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DAY AT
STATE FAIR-Every club member.
whose work and reports are up to date
August 1, 1917, will be given free ad-
mission and special privileges one day
at the Iowa state fair at Des Moines.
STATE PRIZES FOR 1917-The
state prize is a free interstate trip in
Guiding the International Live Stock
show at Chicago The expense fund
for this trip is provided by Successful
Farming, Des Moines.
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first essential is a leader for the pig
club The leader should be a person
who has a live interest in the work
and who is willing and In position to
give 1t sufficient time and direction to
insure its success. Any person inter
ested in the organization OF local or
county pig club may get information
and literature for organizing the work
by writing to E. c. Bishop, state leader
at Ames.
Club members should consult their
local club leader on all questions rela-
tive to carrying out their work. Where
there is no local or county leader, ad-
dress the state leader
Organize boys and girls canning
clubs. In these days of high cost Of
living. canned corn and tomatoes and
several bushels of potatoes will very
materially help to reduce the living
expenses of any home. These articles
OF the garden can be grown, cultivated
and cared for by the average boy or
girl from the time the seed is planted
until the ripened products are put into
the stOre-roOm.
There are part-acre and acre tracts
in every town and city that could, with
profit to the owners, he sold to thrifty
homeseekers, on such a rental plan
that those rents, with interest, might
be applied to the purchase and real
ownership be acquired by those home |
seekers. 1t would be profitable to such
communities, the transfer of proper.
ties would be a safe proposition and
the highest part of real benefit would
thus become effected. A little thought
fulness, on the part Of any city's COM
mercial organization, toward helping
those who go to make more sub.
stantial the best type of home life
the home owners J. would prove a
mighty stimulus for the city better
ment.
Offers Aid.
The department of public instruc-
ton will lend its influence to boards of
education, to town and city superin-
tendents and to city officials as well.
to bring about some definite action,
looking to the employment Of compe-
tent garden supervisors who shall
have the work referred to in hand.
This department views with some
alarm the annual closing Of the town
and city schools during the summer
period, unless there shall be devised
some practical means for furnishing
normal and practical employment to
the many boys and girls who, If left to
their own environment or the natural
conditions in many homes, will con.
tinue to form additional habits OF
idleness and vice. To save the boys
and girls from vicious tendencies, is
after all. the thing to be desired.