The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-24
Plan to Make This County a
Pure=Bred DurOc Jersey
Breeding Center.
OTHER CLUBS ARE IN VIEW
The Success OF Pig Clubs Will
Provide an Exhibit This Fall
to Be Senl 10 the Fair at At
lanta.

Plans are rapidly nearing compile
year, Through the liberality of Bruins
wick bankers, pure bred Duroc-Jer-
sey pigs will be supplied with a view
to making this county a pure-bred Du-
roc-Jersey breeding center.
The plans contemplate day when
as many pigs of suitable size and age
can be assembled at some convenient
place in the downtown district The
candidates who are to become the
owners CT the pigs and members of
the club will gather at this place and
appropriate exercises will mark the
delivery of the pigs. Among other
ideas suggested for the occasion is a
judging contest by which the boys
shall display something of their
knowledge of hogs. Those who excel
in this shall be entitled to first choice
of the pigs. 1t is also expected that
some of the gentlemen whose liberal
ity has made possible the start under
such favorable auspices, will be on
hand and give short addresses to the
boys A picture Of those present and
the porkers would be a stroke Of en-
terprise for the board of trade
to consider. In the early part of Oc-
tober, prior to the Southeastern fair
in Atlanta, it has been deemed wise
to hold county contest at some con
venient downtown location where the
pigs could be assembled under tenn
pOrary shelter and there judged by
some competent hog breeder Judge
The best of the hogs could then be
Grated and shipped to Atlanta to com
pete for prizes at the Southeastern
fai,.
Some idea of the degree of efficiency
with which pig club members produce
good hogs can be gained from the rec
ords of last years fairs. Last year
was the first tine pig club members
were granted permission to enter their
exhibits in open competition with pro
fessional breeders from this and 9th
er states. The youngsters carried
away one grand championship and
three junior championships and $500
il cash prizes. Members exhibiting
at Atlanta, Macon and Valdosta won
in all $1,000 in cash prizes and
enough other prizes in the form of
livestock scholarships and merchan-
disc to bring the grand total up to
$1,S915C
1t developed at the meeting held
at Community School yesterday morn
ing that good many of the girls in
the school are ambitious to become
members of a canning club. In fact,
a club will no doubt be organized at
the school in the near future Asso-
ciated with the canning clubs are the
poultry clubs which will no doubt
come in for consideration. 1t will be
readily seen therefore that with corn
clubs, pig clubs, canning clubs and
poultry clubs in full swing, it will not
be a difficult task to have a county
contest this fall that will border close
ly on a county fair. In fact, with these
clubs we'll established, sufficient ex-
hibits may be assembled another year
to make the contest one looked for
ward to by young and old alike. The
keen competition that comes with the
rivalry for prizes and the honor of
attending winners will easily extend
beyond the ranks of the various clubs
and gather in many of the parents as
we'll
1t is all working for the upbuilding
of a better and greater Glynn county
and what is of far greater value is the
schooling and experience these farm
ers of tomorrow gather in doing things
well and having something they can
call their own and in which hthey en-
tertain a just pride.
To be an active and successful club
member means a future booster for
Glynn county.