The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-07-25
WHO is GOING TO CHICAGO?

We have decided to ship our Sep
Z TENDER pigs TO Chicago and | am glad
30 to the Club members
that there will be five free tickets
furnished by the business men of
Grenada.
These tickets will be given as prizes
for the greatest gain made in feeding
from August LIST to August 18th.
Think of what this means. A ticket to
Chicago will cost you S42.12 and you
can get this trip for nothing if you
make the greatest gain or your hogs
for IS days. A trip to the Union Stock
Yards is worth an hundred dollars of
any mans money who IS in the hog
business.
The prizes will be offered SO as
70 give every man a fair and equal!
show. The contest viii be arranged as
follows: The first class will include
those who have from one 10 five hogs,
the second class will include those
who have from s TO 10 hogs, the
third class will include those who have
from II to Is hogs, the fourth class
from Is to 20 and the fifth class Will
/ 1ltluQe tIOSc WIN IldhS ~ VI INV y.
One ticket will be given to each class.
Now, men, this is a great opportunity
and go to it. In deciding this contest
| will know no mantle scales alone
| will pick the winner. 1t matters not
whether the feeder be the biggest
| planter or the smallest farmer in the
County, whether his face be as black
| as smut or as white as snow. The ones
, VINO make the greatest gain VIII gct
i the prize and no Partially Will be
| shown.
We are going to send a weighing
certificate to every member anc II
YOU want &c contest for this prize all
YOU have TO 90 is to weigh your hog
or hogs on the first day of August
and have the weights witnessed by
and certified to by two distinterested
parties. then forward these weights
to me. We will weigh again on the
18th day of August and the winners
will get the prizes.
This contest is = IN which every
member could TAKE part and tho>|I
who do take part will certainly prof.
fit thereby, even if they don't win
one of the free tickets GOu Will sur
prise yourself, if you do your best.
Don't shrug your shoulders and say,I
Il cant win and there II no need to
try" Ee:ieve you are as good as any,
body end back up your belef by youTJ
lest efforts and you will stand fine
chance 70 vii.
This act on the part of the business
reople of Grenada certainly should be
appreciated and l believe It will. Let
every feeder participate and JON theI
contest with a determination to Hfn
. ii on the great day of Septemocrl
the Goth the hoard of spe ctatOfS wtol
will be gathered here from all parts
of Mississippi and the South will be
o~tou,GeJ and overwhe med at our
success. o. +. TURNER.
The following article is taken from
the Commercial Appeal Of July l9,I
1919, and shows what the people,
abroad think of the Pig Club move
ment:
Grenada County, Mississippi, isl
busy putting over Americas biggest
nip club. Three thousand five hund-
red hogs are now on feed and in Sep
TENDER a special train of so cars
about 700, 900 pounds of pork-w1u
move from here to Chicago's live
stock market, making the largest SIM
Gle shipment of hogs rel made from
any. one point. Nearly a thousand
Grenada County farmers and others
are members of the club, and begin
ming July 80 they will feed to the linn
it until shipping time. Unless the price
of hogs on foot goes down materially
the shipment will net about $14O ,OO0.
The organizer and director general
of the mammoth pig club is County
Aren't O. F. Turner-the same Turn
er who turned the agricultural sys-
tenn of Carroll County upside down. IN
1917 and 1918. When Mr.. Turner
ended his second year in Carroll by
conducting a pig club that shipped ~
cars to the St. Louis market in one
day. which was the largest on record.
and when he showed by the records
that bank deposits had been trebled,
credit merchants routed, One-crop sys
tenn forever banished and the whole
county put on a basis that paid like 1t
had never paid before, it was decided
that he needed a broader and more
fertile field in which to work, so he
was transferred to Grenada County.
And Mr.. Turner is the only Agent
in the South getting a salary OF
1000 a year.
Began With Feeding Tests
Having had success with the pig
club in Carroll, my mind naturally
ran along that line when | came to
the new field" said Mr.. Turner, when
asked to tell what the club is doing
and how. II found Grenada County
ripe for the work, inasmuch as the
farmers here were marketing both
corn and unfinished hogs. We began a
series of feeding tests, and as a result
the County has shipped AZ cars OF
hogs the first six months of 1912,
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