The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-04-09
How One Pig
Earned $1,000

To obtain loan of s25 from bank
invest in product imported from {
distant State, anJ realize net prof
| of $1,055.85 within fifteen months, sug
sests an achievement in high finance
To Elton Sartor, fifteen-year-olt
boy in Bartlett, Williamson County
Texas, the transaction simply repre-
scented an investment of $25 in a 6S
pound Poland-China gilt, picked from
choice breeding stock in Kansas. The
regotiation was simple enough. The
result achieved bulks big. The adven
ture not only gives the texas youth &
bank balance Of over $1,000. but Elton
Sartor also has been awarded the un
challenged title as the 1918 pig-clut
champion of the United States. He
likewise has been awarded a scholar
&lip to the Texas Agricultural ant
Mechanical College.
The hyphen between the banker
farmer in Texas, the prestige of 9
pig-club organization of nationwide
identity, and the helpful cooperation
of county agricultural agent were
smong the agencies that stimulated
the boy pig-grower.
whole milk will certainly make the
pigs tail curl'' is phrase that Elton
Sartor does not discount in practice
when producing championship pork
He has unmovable faith in milk as ar
item in the pigs diet And he talks
enthusiastically about balanced ra
ton. Well-directed effort and intelli
sence characterized the activities Of
young Sartor in lifting 68-pound SOW
Pig from $25 valuation to an enter
prise appraised in four figures.
The record herewith in its unvar
nshed form speaks for itself: The
first litter from this SOW was IL pigs
The price he got for them when they
were six months and four days old
and weighed 1928 pounds, was $527S5
For 8 pigs out of the second litter OF
II he received 1925. Adding $500
the amount refused for the sow, and
deducting the feed bill of 172, the gair
was s1,055.S5. This means net profit
of $1,055.85 in fifteen months on ar
initial $25 investment.
Remarkably significant is the record
OF the two pig-club champions claim
ing Texas as their home, for two sue
cessive years. For it was down IL
Georgetown, Texas, that Shelby Mui
ms developed into championship pro
portions in 1917-and both Mullins
and Sartor found identical guidance
in the same county agricultural agent
Owen w Sheriff..
Sandwiched between the walthiest
counties of Decentralization ant
Bells the town of Bartlett, with &
population of 1875, all told. 1t is the
home of the Bartlett Boys Registered
Pig Club and Elton Sartor, as well as
the source and strength of the banker
farmer movement that groups itsel
around sixteen bankers in financing
the pig club members.
81 am safe in saying that no deserv
ing boy has yet been refused assist
ance in buying his pig or brood SOW
where he is willing to follow the sus
gestions of county agent" says one
banker.
T. B. Benson, cashier Of the Bart
lett National Bank, states: ANY boy
who will raise hogs and take an inter
ost in them needs no other seeurit.
than his note at this bank. have no
| lost a cent on these notes, and do no
expect to-"
Loans are made the pig-club boy
| at eight per cent interest, the only en-
dorsement or lien required being thu
logs promise to pay and the loani
sanction by the boys father.
Some of the other outstandin;
achievements as contained in reports
OF Owen Sheriff., county agriculture
agent show that one member cleared ;
Profit of $1,000; four made a net proe
Of $500 each; eight over $3.50 each
and eleven. over 800 apiece-fron
enc SOW pig each in 1918.-S. R. Win
| tiers, in Farm and Fireside.