The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-01-14
HOG BREEDERS
HOLD MEETING
Twenty of the More Prominent Hog
Breeders Of County Meet ut Farm
Bureau Office Last Saturday
PIG CLUB FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Breeders Will Assist ANY Boy or Girl
and Desire That Clubs be Formed
and Interest Taken in Purebreds

Twenty of the most prominent hog
breeders of the county met in the farm
bureau office Saturday afternoon and
made plans for establishing a large
purebred pig club for boys and girls of
Crawford county This pig club move
ment adopted by the breeders Saturday,
will help the purebred farmers of to.
morrow in four ways, first, it will dem.
onstrate to the boys and girls the profit
able methods of purebred pig produc-
ton. Second, it teaches the principles
of selection care, management, feed
ing, showing and sale of purebred pigs.
trhird, through home experience and
personal ownership. the purebred club
viii interest the young people in the
problems Of the farm. Fourth, it helps
to establish more purebred herds on the
farms Of Crawford county.
The hog men are anxious that boys
and girls become familiar with the pure
bred hog industry. For this reason
they decided at the meeting Saturday to
help any Industrious boy or girl in the
county to get purebred gilt that will
farrow some time, in March or early
April depending upon the rules drawn
up by the association committee,
No boy or girl in the county needs to
hold back from entering the purebred
pig club contest because he or she does
not have money with which to buy a
purebred gilt at the start. The breed
ers are making arrangements to sell a
purebred gilt to the boy or girl on any
kind of terms. The boy or girl may
buy a gilt by giving his note to the
breeder. They may buy a bred gilt by
signing a contract to return to the
breeder next summer two of the pigs
raised. The boy or girl then gets to
keep the gilt and the rest of the litter.
In fact any boy or girl who is anxious
to learn something about. the purebred
hog business can get a start if he will
just write to County Agent Quist.
The breeders are not behind the pure
bred club in order that they might Gre
ate a new field for disposing of their
surplus gifts this spring. There never
was time that purebred gifts were
more scarce than they are now. Many
of the breeders Saturday said that they
would have to go out of the county to
buy gifts if they We're TO furnish one for
the contest.
Boys and girls all over the United
States are joining purebred pig clubs.
Several years ago at the Iowa state fair
the Chester White men began to do
nate for this work. G.. B. McAndrews,
of Vail; reported that the Duroc Jersey
men of the Missouri Valley are raising
from ten to twenty thousand dollars for
purebred pig clubs. Sears McHenry,
our director to the Iowa state fair, stat
ed that the boys and girls club depart
ments are greatly enlarged this year
and more premiums win be offered for
club work than ever before. .t
/ The following committee was chosen
to make county rules and regulations
for the county purebred pig club: Chas.
Speck, Poland China; G. E. McAndrews,
Duroc Jerseys; Hans v. Brodersen,
Spotted Poland Chinas; P. H. Sheridan,
Chester White, and E. Birkhofer.
Hampshire. The various hog breeders
of the county should get in touch with
their representative of this committee.
Every breeder must help in order that
Crawford county has large member
ship of boys and girls in the purebred
pig contest. Parents should urge their
children to get into this movement.