The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-02-08
DETAILS OF EPIC CLUB"

10 90 mis- part ~ SOWING the OOOmSky
Hog Shortage and gives the details
Of "Pig Club" which he is organising
for the benefit Of the boys in Van
Buren, and Allegan Counties
AS a nucleus for the Pig Club for
boys uder eighteen years of age in
Van Buren, and Allegan counties, ]
have now about fifty head of open
gifts of August and September farrow
weighing from 40 to 80 pounds. They
are at Hartford, Hastings and Milan,
Michigan from the herds of the best
Duroc-Jersey breeders of the state.
The price will be from $12 to SIS
each, and l will pay for registering
them in the American Duroc-Jersey
Swine association. The boys are to
give me a note signed by the boys
and their fathers due in one year, so
the boys can have plenty of time to
pay the notes from their pig crop.
Or l will furnish them with sow
and they are to return her after the
year is up. will pay the express
charges both ways on this plan. At
the end of the year l expect to let
some other boy have the SOW until we
get our counties full of pedigreed
hogs.
The only strings on this offer are
that / want to know that you will do
your part in trying to raise your pigs
so they will be credit to you. The
boys of today are the men of few
years and here the old adage will
come true, "as the sapling is bent so
the tree will grow"
If you boys raise fine litter of
Registered pigs now, when you become
men you will want all of your stock
on the farm registered. Instead of
the heterogeneous, rainbow colors that
come into the stock yards, they will
be solid colors, thereby bringing more
money to the growers. The Brook
water farm at their seventh annual
SAFE averaged about 500 per gilt. One
breeder sold ten boar spring pigs last
fall at an average of $770 each.
1 At the Van Buren, county fair next
October liberal premiums will be paio
to the boys making the best showing
in the Pig Club.
The reason that / have chosen the
Duroc-Jerseys for you boys is thai
they produce large litters of strong
thrifty pigs, full of vitality and con
stitutional vigor. They are big easy
feeders with large bone that Carrie
them to weight of over 1000 pounds
and this without breakdown in from
feet or hook. The Duroc-Jersey ha
the ideal rainbow shape of back
thereby making it impossible to hav
a "sway-back" among the old sows
and they have great depth of heart
giving them vitality that enable
them to carry large litter of pig
to maturity.
By actual count in eleven of tn
largest hog markets over sixty pc
cent of the hogs were Duroc-Jerseys
At the 1917 international at Chicag
| there were three first prizes for ca
load lots of hogs, the Duroc-Jersey
winning two out Of three first pre-
muips. In the few years they hav
been before the public they have be
come the favorite porkers, not onl
i'm the corn belt of Illinois and Iowa
but also in the southern states.
In Mendell's claw of Inheritance
we find that like produces like, an
therefore the more good ancestors
pig has, the better animals they wi
produce, Mendell's law being a
accepted fact among all breeders o
all kinds of stock. know you Wi
want to know how your pigs are bret
and the following is the sire of som
twenty head:
1.-THE Principal 9Th, owned by Fair
view form at Hastings, is sired b
"Principal 4th" of the Brookwate
farm at Ann Arbor, owned by Pro-
| Herbert w. Mumford Of the Ayr
cultural College of Illinois. eth
Principal 4th" weighed 900 pounds a
, three year old, and at that time Ir
Jackson said he was the best no
brought east from the west. 18th
:. Principal 4th" was shown at the IL
! ternational in 1912, and he and h
litter mate won first and third in tn
!. ! under six-month boar pig class, ar
! were also given championships. H
! litter sister was the first prize gil
: They won first prize for young her
! and first prize for produce of so,
! His get have won many prizes ;
J Illinois and Michigan fairs. TT
! mother of Principal 9Th" was Jack
! IJanev and Prof MunoforI saws IN,