The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-03-21
CLUB TO FINANCE
SCHOOL SHOW AGAIN
Kennewick Schools Rank High
Among Schools of State and
Nation in Club Work

The Commercial club has voted to
again finance the schools annual in
dustrial and agricultural show which
will be staged as usual next fall. At
tie regular meeting Of the club Thurs
day evening Superintendent M. S. Lew
is called attention to the benefits that
had been derived from the show. 1t,
he said, was about the only means by
which interest in boys and girls club
work can be sustained.
The Kennewick schools, Mr.. Lewis
said, occupy an enviable position in
their club work. Last year they fur
nished more than half Of the complet-
ed projects in Benton county, which
ranks among the first counties in the
state, while the state is one of the
leaders in this work in the nation.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that in recent appeal sent
out to the boys and girls of the state.
by the State College, three instances
were cited to stimulate interest in pig
club work and in each instance the
successful pig raiser was Kennewick
boy. The State College bulletin fol-
lows:
Among the thousands of boys and
girls in Washington whose club in
dustry of the past year has netted the
state hundreds of thousands in food
produced and conserved, are large
number of boys and girls engaged in
the production of pork.
This army of pork-producers is be-
ing enlarged and mobilized for the
work of the coming year by Pig Club
Leader B. E. Smead, of the State Col
lege. Upon joining pig club, a boy
or girl is thereafter supplied by the
State College, and its extension service
specialists thruout the state with the
necessary information which, so far
as it goes. is in no way inferior to the
instruction given the students in ami
zmal husbandry regularly enrolled in
the college at Pullman. Judging by
reports which Club Leader Smead has
received, the knowledge the young peo-
pie have in this way received is being
turned to good account in the produc-
tion of pork.
Russell Lawson, aged IL, of Kenne-
wick, says that he has now made $65.7O
out of his pigs-$33.55 out of two pigs
last winter year ago, and $32.15 In
1913. In his report to Club Leader
Smead, he says he joined the pig club
to raise pigs. His first pig was a red
one, which he named Dewey. He says
he has learned that well-bred pigs are
a better business proposition than the
scrubs; also, that pig that stands up
on it's feet is better than one that falls
down. The last hog Russell killed
dressed 28O pounds, for which he re-
-ceived 16 cents pound -$44.80. His
profit, above all expenses, was $24.15.
Harold Krug, of Kennewick, began
work with two pigs kept in pen ten
feet wide and thirty feet long. He
charged all his expenses against the
two, and then divided this amount by
two to get the cost Of one pig. This
amounted to $3.50. He sold from one
pig, 140 pounds Of meat at 16 cents,
making profit on one pig of $3.50:
John Keene, aged IL, of Kennewick,
says he desires to keep his pig for
brood sow, so is not fattening her. He
says she is worth $27.50 as brood
animal, and for meat, at her present
weight, $23.68. He is ahead $14.63 on
his venture, having had access to pas
turage, which reduced his feed bill.