Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-09-19
BOYS AND GIRLS PIGS
FEATURE AT COUNTY FAIR

The pigs shown by the Boys and
Girls Pig Club at the County Fail
last week was one of the big features
of the whole fair. Hundreds of PEG.
pie passing thru the horse barr
stopped to look over the exhibit and
to comment on the results being OBJ.
tanned by these young breeders.
Ten pig club members of the 2t
| in the county club brought sixteen
pigs to be judged at the fair. Harold
Griffith's pig won the $500 premium
for first place in the fat pig class
Irene Quinby was awarded $500 as
second prize; Edwin Willisen $500
as third, Maxwell Ehlerts $500 as
fourth; Russell Jawbron got 81 90 as
fifth prize. Frank Law, Lyle Graves
Clarence Graves, Forest Jacobsen
Carl Bonneson and Myron Griffith,
the other club members exhibiting
were awarded $1.0O each for showing
their pigs at the Fair These prizes
were given by the Agricultural So
ciety.
The special prize of $500 offered
by the Dreher Bros. for the best Po-
land China Pig in the club was won
by Maxwell Ehlert, of Ross, while the
$500 prize offered by the same men
for the second best Poland China Pig
was a warded to Clarence Graves.
Edwin WillesOn won the DR.. J. p.
Jorgensen, Elkhorn. prize of a pure
bred fall boar pig offered for the best
Duroc Jersey pig shown. Edwin won
also the $500 prize offered by Will
lam Bauer, one OF the prominent
Duroc Jersey breeders in this coun-
ty, for the best Duroc Jersey pig ex-
hibited by a club member.
The Audubon County Farm
Bureau prizes offered for the best
and second best pure bred boar and
SOW pigs were awarded as follows:
Poland China Boar Maxwell Ehl-
ert, $500.
Duroc Jersey Forest Jacob
sen, first, $500; Russell Jacobsen,
second, $20O.
Duroc Jersey Gilts-Carl Bonnie
sen. $500.
The whole exhibit was of exceed
ing value to the club memba rs pres
ent at the judging Each watched
closely the Judge, p. S. Shearer of
Ames, as he judged the different
classes. When the Judge gave the
reasons for his placings the boys and
girls could see just where some of
the pigs were better than the others.
Some OF the boys have decided to
come back stronger than ever next
year with better pigs than they have
this year
This county fair exhibit is a part
of the Boys and Girls Pig Club con-
test now nearing completion in the
state. The county agent interested
35 boys and girls in the Pig Club
WORK TINS spring. BY September list
10 OF these had dropped out Of the
club owing to bad luck with their
pigs In some cases. and TO the lack
OF the proper encouragement on the
part OF parents in Others
The county contest is still on. how
ever. and it will continue in some
cases up to October 30th depending
upon the time the boys and girls
started to feed their pigs. The con-
test runs for 100 days from the time
the feeding began and will be de-
cided upon rate of gain, economy of
gain, the record kept by the club
members.
Club work of all kinds, especially
boys and girls club work is one of
the very best ways TO develop an in
terest i'll farm life and farm products.
The boys and girls of today are to
De the farmers of tomorrow. The
more they come to like livestock and
farm life now thru having a personal
interest in some thing ON this farm
the better satisfied will they be and
the more willingly will they remain
on the farm.
The other Pig Club members in
the county who did not exhibit their
pigs are as follows:
Adolph Andersen. Atlantic. r. s.
Glen Andersen. Ross.
Everett Black, Audubon. r. 8.
Ruth Harvey. Extra.
Elmer Jorgensen. Brayton.
Harry Jorgensen. Brayton.
Frank Miller, Audubon, r. >.
Robert Mullinger. Extra, X. 5.
Elmer Petersen, Kimballton.
Carl Petersen, kimballton.
Benefit Petersen, Kimballton.
Ethel Thuesen, Kimballton.
Christen TOpp. Audubon.