Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-19
PIG CLUB WORK
FOR SUMTER TO
OPEN This WEEK

3c1v6 WOrh tulb week organizing (uo
Sumter county pig and other farm
cubs, He will start early this week
visiting the rural schools Of the coun-
ty for the purpose OF arousing new in
forest among the teachers and pupils
Of the 90 schools and enrolling
members.
The Pig Club is regarded as espec-
tally important, and has been very
successful In Sumter county In past
seasons. However. Mr.. Marshall hopes
the scope Of this work man be greatly
enlarged this year, and that great
Number Of Sumter county youths will
engage in the work.
The pig clubs ara divided into two
Glasses, based upon the age OF the
pig at the date of the exhibition, which
ia usually held in connection with the
state fair at Macon. These classes
are: Pigs under six months, and pigs
over six months and under year. One
year is the limit Of age for an entry
in the club, and, as pig must be
handled four months by the club mem
Der to be qualified to compete, four
months is the minimum age.
The rural club work has already
done wonders for Georgia, and it is
making its impression also in Sumter
county. Following is brief sum
mary of some of the phases and activ-
tiles of the pig club work in Georgia
during 1918. as carried on by the Err
tension division of the State College OF
Agriculture in cooperation with the
u. S. Department of Agriculture
Fourteen school pigs in one county
raised on the waste from scholars
lunch baskets, sold for $500 at an
auction sale.
One town of 1000 people produced
$4,000 pounds of pork from pigs raised
in back yards. The white boys of the
same county raised $12,34O worth of
meat hogs, and the negro boys 2,134S5,
or $14,474.85 produced by pig club
boys.
An all-Cotton county reports an in
crease of 5000 hogs in 1918.
Fifty-seven pig club members in
one county raised $50 head of regis
tered Duroc-Jerseys. The amount in
vested was $4,000. An auction sale
disposed of eighty head of surplus.
The sale and remaining hogs represent
S7,800O0
twenty-five schools in one county
are raising twenty-five purebred hogs
this winter on waste from the pupils
dinner baskets.
With twenty-eight pig club hogs,
one county won seventy-six ribbons
and prizes amounting to $S17.5O, in
Guiding the state championship.
nv oIatO IhaulpIbu Was tue 1l-S year
old son of a one-horse farmer who
bought his pig at an auction sale for
$3.50. She is worth $4,000 today.
Six pig club boys in one county will
start hog farms in 1919. Three of
the boys have their hogs and land. All
OF them started with one small pig.
Of the 2,105 hogs at the Southeast
ern fair, 345 were owned and raised
by pig club boys who won thirty-one
ribbons and $4,000 in prizes in the
open ring. Three of the ribbons were
junior champions.
OF the $50 hogs at the State fair, 81
were owned and raised by pig club
boys who won 80 ribbons in the open
ring and $272.0O in prizes. One of
the ribbons was junior champion.
Pig club boys won 10 ribbons and
$505.oO in prizes in the open ring at
two Georgia fairs. Four of the ribbons
were junior champions.
There were 8,67S members in the
pig clubs in 1918. The draft last
spring prevented the number reaching
10000, which was the number aimed
The total sum represented by the
hogs and pigs in the hands of pig
club members during 1918 was a half
million dollars
The increase in the initial cost of
pig clubs pigs in 1918 was almost
900 over that in 1917.
The increase in the final value of
hogs raised by pig club boys in 1918
over those of 1917 was over $3.50
The increase in the number of pure
bred hogs raised by pig club boys in
1918 over 1917 was 306%6.
The increase in the number of pigs
exhibited at two fairs by pig club
boys in 1918 over 1917 was nearly
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