The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-02-16
The RAILROAD AND BANKER
IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS.
noy' and Cirls' Dairy Clubs-Calf
Clubs.

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the farmers in order. to promote and
roster the dairy interests in their
respective communities.
Believing that one of the best
means to insure the greater expan-
sion and development of the dairy
INDUSTRY is to get the boys and girls
interested, the Illinois Central Rail-
road, cooperating with the bankers
ana citizens of Martin, Tenn, or
ganized in March, 1916, what is
Known as the Boys and Girls Dairy
Club, whose slogan is Efficiency in
~Dairying." The bankers of Martin
loaned each member of the Club suf-
hcient money at six per cent interest
20 purchase q Holstein COW, the bows
and girls in turn giving their notes
for same. endorsed by their parents.
fiity members were enrolled in the
club when organized, which number
mas been increased to about seventy
I'VE. The cows were purchased in
"lsconsin and as "a result of the or
gdnization of this Club the farmers in
the vicinity of. Martin are buying
COWS and going into the dairy bust
ness on an extensive scale.
Similar clubs are now in process
of organization at Mayiield, Ken
lucky and Hazlehurst, Miss. While
the formation of. these Dairy Clubs
was inaugurated by the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, were it not for the spir-
1t OF hearty cooperation of the bank
ers IN financing the propositions, the
oys and girls would have been UNI
able to purchase the necessary cows.
and it is hoped the bankers in other
parts of the Mississippi Valley will
lend this substantial encouragement
TO the boys and girls in their
tive communities.
Another illustration of this Club
movement is the formation of Calf
Clubs in Illinois.
Mr.. Thos. F. Chamberlain, Cash
Ter, First National Bank, at Brighton,
ILL.,, purchased in Wisconsin last
March, "a head of heifers, ranging in
age from six to sixteen months.
These calves were shipped to Brigh-
ton and sold to school children in that
vicinity at actual cost, the bank tax
ing the child's note bearing six per
cent interest. They paid an average
Of $4,000 per head for these calves,
delivered ut Brighton, with the un-.
outstanding that in less than one year
they were to be brought to Brighton
and sold at public auction. The diff
ference in what they paid, plus six
per cent interest, and what the heif-
er brought at the sale, was the profit
the child made on the transaction.
che sale was held December 8, 1916,
and ga hcifers were sold for cash
at public auction to the highest bid
der, and brought an average of
$3.50 per head, a total Of $7,749.OO.
The notes given by the children to-
tailed $3,6l2.00, leaving "A profit of
S4,137.00. This sale was the first Of
IFS kind held in this country, and at
iorded convincing evidence of the
~practicabiiity of the Bank Calf Club
Movement in Illinois.
This movement has resulted in the
organization of many more Calf
ClobS Throughout Illinois for the pur-
pose of interesting children in the
GARY industry.
At Centralia. Ill.,, one of the first
Calf Clubs was organized by the
President of the Centralia Trust d
Savings Bank, MIR. !. F. Mackey, who
gives his views regarding this organi-
zaticn as follows:
81 have been in the banking bust
ness tor twenty years. and | believe
that this has been the greatest ad-
vertisement we have ever undertaken.
We are confiden, the movement will
ripen into ii great deal of good and
permanent business for u institu-
ton"
Practical work Of this kind vii, an
doubtdcly 40 much farther in en-
%couracing the boy and girl to remain
on the farm than any other method.
OF course the banker mus, invest
some money for a time, but there is
! ractically no risk, and with the
united efforts of the banker and the
railroad, cooperating along these
lines for the greater development of
the dairy industry, there is bound to
be brought about a new era of pros
perity, together with a happier and
more contented citizenship.
a little pamphlet entitled 1.-The
Railroad and the Banker in the Dairy
Business" has just been published
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