The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-11-21
WEEKLY NEWS NOTES
BY THE COUNTY AGENT
Champion Pig Raisers of st. Fran
co.'s County.

Champion Pig Raisers of st. Fran
co.'s County.
After some little delay in having
the record books graded, we are able
to announce the final winners in the
Pig Club Show held at the Clardy
farm the morning of our Hereford
Association sale. Herbert j. Rickard
won sweepstakes on his Duroc Jersey
pig and sixth prize on his manage
ment and record. His prizes amounted
to SIS in cash and 100 pounds in tank
age. Carl Hoehn won second prize in
the Duroc Jersey Pig Club on his pig
and third prize on his record and man.
agement. His prize was S5 in cash
and 100 pounds of tankage. Ernest
Bell won third prize in the Duroc Jer-
sey Pig Club on his pig and fifth on
his record and management. This en-
titled him to 81 in cash. Harold Rick
ard won fourth prize on his Duroc
Jersey pig and seventh prize on his
management and record. This entlt-
led him to $4 in cash.
Theodore Lynch won first prize on
his pig in the Poland China Pig Club
and fourth on his record and manage
ment. His premium was 81 in cash
and 100 pounds Of tankage. Miss Ce-
cile Distilli, of Bismarck, won second
prize on her pig in the Poland China
Club and sweepstakes on her record
and management. Her prizes amount.
ed to 81 in cash and $50 pounds Of
tankage. Eugene Lynch won third
prize on his pig in the Poland China
Club and second on his record and
management, which entitled him 70
81 in cash and so pounds of tankage.
Half of the cash prizes was con-
tributed by farmers interested in the
Pig Club work and the other half by
the business firms of Pennington.
The tankage offered was contributed
by the Cudahy Packing Co., of Kansas
City, Kans.
We feel that the boys and girls in
the Pig Club work have done their
work much better than they did last
year. The enrolment in the Pig
Club last spring was thirty, but only
about twenty of these purchased their
own pigs and cared for them accord
ing to the rules of the contest. The
pigs were all to be registered stock
and were to be owned by the children
exhibiting them and were to be fed
and cared for under the direction of
the club. r
We wish to make especial mention
of the management and record Of Miss
Cecile Distilli, of Bismarck, who had
the sweepstakes record. In going ov-
er her record, we find that she pro-
duced a total gain in weight Of l2S
pounds in 122 days, making an av-
erage daily gain of 1.04 pounds and
the cost of this gain was only 4.2c per
pound, These pigs were all for breed
ing purposes and we consider this a
mighty good record. Miss Distilli al
lowed her pig to run on good blue
grass pasture all the time and fed It
a small amount of shorts, corn and
skimmilk. The cost of production on
all the pigs ranged from 4.2c per
pound to 14.2c per pound. Cheap
gains were made on all the pigs that
had good pasture during the entire
feeding period.
Corn Club Boy Makes Record Acre
Yield of Corn.
Milton Menge. a member of the Corn
Club, gathered and weighed his acre
Weld of corn last week and found that
he had produced SO 1-3 bushels on his
acre. This yield was made on bot
tom field which was formerly alfalfa
sod He has entered his acre yield in
the Southeast Missouri Corn Show,
under the auspices of the State Teach
ers' College at Cape Girardeau, and
is surely going to make some other
boys hustle for the $50 prize.
St. Louis Conference of Livestock
Shipping Association Managers
The United States Bureau of Mar
kets held a short course and confer
ence for livestock shipping associa-
tion managers at the National Stock
Yards in East St. Louis, on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. On Tuesday morning, special
study was given to the grading of
beef cattle. Tuesday afternoon, prac-
tical shipping association accounting,
shrinkage and other items of special
interest were taken up in the manag-
ers' conference. Wednesday morning
a number of sheep and hogs were
graded and in the afternoon the man
ayers were taken through the pack
ing, plants to see how the lots graded
that morning killed out. Thursday
morning the stocker and feeder divi-
sion of the cattle, hog and sheep yards
was visited and Thursday afternoon
a final managers conference was held.
This entire program was planned and
arranged for by the United States
Bureau of Markets, the commission
firms of the National Stock Yards and
the packing companies in this terri
tory. Mr.. Rion, manager of the Farm
ington Livestock Shipping Assocla-
ton, attended teh conference which he
said was very interesting and instruc-
tive.
GOOD HEREFORD CALF