The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-09-08
CORN AND Pig
CLUBS TO HAVE
Big SHOW AT KY.
STATE FAIR
Many Prizes To Be Awarded
to Boys and Girls in Agri-
culture and Canning
Clubs.

Standing as a bulwark between
urban Kentucky and any danger of
food shortage are $4,000 boys,
members of the corn and pig clubs
in every county. An army of as many
girls has shouldered pots and pans
in the great war agaisnt waste-they
are members of the girls canning
clubs.
Both will have active parts at the
State Fair, Sept. 1918; the boys in
their annual encampment on the State
Fair grounds, eternally viligant to
see that their pigs take all the blue
ribbons, leaving only the second and
minor awards for the hogs entered
by their elders; the girls with an
array of canned and preserved foods
competing against the fruits and lab
ors of women who have spent years
in perfecting the art of cookery.
But this year, the boys will have
a big say so i'll the awarding of
prizes as those more than 1G years
of age will act as judges under the
guiding eye of professors of the Col
lege OF Agriculture. Three days will
be devoted to stock and cattle judging
by students of the College of Agri-
culture.
Although their decision will not be
final, the verdict is expected to have
much weight in the awarding of rib
bons. To the boy whose decision is
upheld most often, the State Fair will
give 500. Another prize will be a
share of stock in the American Shrop-
shire Registry Association.
An interstate Judging contest will
be conducted under the supervision of
the International Live Stock EXPOSE
ton, Chicago. one team of boys be-
tween the ages of ii to 10, from each
State in the Union having been en-
tered.
The 12O boys. one from each county
who will attend the encampment at
the fair grounds will be chosen from
the various county corn and pig clubs
the members with the highest scores
receiving the trip and weeks outing
at the espense of the State.
These boys will return home to be-
come farmers, and in turn will see
that their sons are better farmers,
W. c. Hanna. Commissioner of Agri-
culture points out.
Through this encampment each
year the State of Kentucky will build
up a great army of agriculturists. the
need of which was sorely felt during
the war. Then it was that the sons
of the soil rallied to Uncle Sans
call; then it was that the world turned
to the farmer in its plea to save
civilization from falling He answered
we now know how well But if Ken
tucky's example could be followed in
every State within ten years there
would be 100000 trained agricul-
turists. either actively working farms
or ready at moments notice to re-
turn to the land.
$4,000 Members.
This year there are 1900 boys,
members of the corn and pig clubs.
Each year many of them outgrow
this work but their ranks are doubled
by recruits.
Think what it means for the State
to turn out 1900 expert farmers
each year And our work has just be-
gun"
The boys will live in tents on the
fair grounds and will be under the
personal care of representatives of
the College of Agriculture Strict dis
cipline will be enforced and the con-
duct of the boys carefully looked after
For the purpose of seeing the fair and
studying the exhibits i'll a scientific
and systematic manner the boys will
be divided into small groups in charge
of competent instructors. Special OPP
portunity will be given to the study
of such exhibits as live stock. agri-
culture. horticulture, dairy, machinery
schools and good roads
Leaders in the boys and girls clubs
in each county are the local county
agricultural agents. County school
superintendent. teachers, bankers and
business men are taking an interest
more and more in encouraging farm
boys and girls to acquaint themselves
with the value of better crops. better
animals and better homes. In many
counties banks are financially behind
the boys in formations of pig clubs,
lending money for the youthful agri-
culturists to begin their ventures.