The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-04
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

|a 6iCat WOih iS DtlilS OOle III AldUduid through the CO operative extension work, Alabama Polytechnic institute, and United States department of agriculture, with Prof. J. F. Duggar as director.
 Now, he is man who spends little time in the public eye but he always keeps weather eye out to serve the public through the agencies with which he is associated. He works like well oiled machinery. silently but surely.
 
 I meet hlin frequently as I go up ana down the state I find him in various kinds of meetings. Most generally he is an attentive listener, and only talks when specially called out, and then briefly and to the point. There is nothing of the grand -stander" about my good friend Duggar.
 There are % many who use their offic;a! position to boost their own game, or use it as means for getting to stand in the front porch, that it is real refreshing to meet really modest man. don't sec how he does it, for I freely confess that it is not in me to "hide my light under a bushsl." I am too anxious to be torch bearer and have it lit and burning But there are enough others not to make ma conspicuous.
 The extension service has been con- ducted since the war began on an intensi- iad e.ro ;c toI county in Alabama by both farm dem- onstration agent, and also employs spe- cialists in field crops, horticulture, ami nal hushandry, crop pests, marketing, and club work for boys and girls. I know quite number of the men and the worl. en engaged in the service and they ars a loyal and faithful band
 Alabama has one army of approximate. ly 25,00o, the object of which is not fe struction. This army is the Boys clubs supervised by Messrs. L. N. Duncan, J. c. Ford, E. Newman and P. o. Davis of the junior and home economies division of the supaSintendents of education, teach CTS and others are the county and local leaders.
 These ciuns are now organized in every county in the state, and on June 6 the total enrolment was 23,215, divided as fol. lows: Community club members, 225 Corn club members, 9269 Peanut cluo members, 1424; Pig club members, 69so; z As in growlng small gardens and in various other activities. 10979. All of these are formal members of the clubs, and carry out the work as outlined by the leaders. It must be remembered that this gives only the number of boys enrolled in club work and does not include the girls and women.
 I wish in this story only to show what is being dons in pig clubs and use Wer'h Thagard of Butler county as a sample Of a successful breeder of swine. He is only 16 years of age now, and the fact that he recently made trip from Greenville to Lafayette, a distance of about 150 miles, for the sole purpose of seeing herd ot SOOu DutoSs, proVtS HoW interested ne $ in the business. The visit was made to the farm of one of the best swine breei- CTS of the state. Young Thagard means to belong to this class.
 He now has two mature sows, one junlor yearling SOW with seven pigs, one boar, and three 5month old gilts, all regis tered, which he is using in the pig cluo He states that he considers these animals to be worth minimum of S60O He gives these hogs excellent treatment, and when these three gilts were weighed al l months of age they weighed as follows: 92 pounas, 92la pounds, and 92 pounds This shows remarkable uniformity. AboIt tine same time scrub pig, F months old. was weighed and pulled down ex actly 70 pounds. This shows what pig clubs and pure-bred stock will do Werth took up the club work four years ago, De ginning with grade Duroc gilt given him by an uncle. He lost out in the show ring at the county fair the first fall. but he came right back the following year and won second prize. Then he sold roc gilt and that fall won first in the open competition against all breeds aud breeders.
 This progressive young swine breeder feeds n properly balanced ration to his hogs having made A careful study of