Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-04-23
PURE BRED PIGS FOR
PIG CLUB CONTESTS
Farm Bureau Active - Executive
Committee Plans Membership
Drive.

The Farm Bureau office has made
arrangements whereby boys and girls
who wish to secure purebred pigs for
the pig contest can do so at reason
able prices.
Ben Busch, Morris, and Emil Meek
lenburg, Hancock, offer to sell pedi-
greed Duroc Jersey SOW pigs, born the
first part of March, at $35 each, the
pigs to be taken by May 1st. They
also offer to pay 800 at Fair time
for any one of these pigs which wins
first place at the Fair. A few of
these pigs have already been taken so
it would be well to place orders early.
w. J. Graham of Howard Lake,
who is considered the best Poland
China breeder in the state and usually
sells his pigs at 800 each at wean-
ing age, is offering them to Boys and
Girls Club contestants of Stevens
county for $50 each.
The Norris Land Co. of Glenwood,
is offering 6 weeks old Hampshire
pigs at SO and 8 weeks old at SIS.
The secretary of the American Hamp-
shire Swine Rec. ord Assn. ,Peora, Ill
is offering to sell SOW pigs of except
ional breeding, delivered at Morris,
at $40 each This association is
offering $50 in prizes for the Hamp-
shire pigs entered in the contest, to
be divided as follows: $11.OO, $500,
$500, $500, $500, $500, $4.00.
These prizes are in addition to the
large regular prizes offered to pig
contestants. w.
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN.
The Executive, Committee of the
Farm Bureau, at their last meeting,
decided to put on drive for member
ship some time in May or June Plans
are being worked out for conducting
the campaign. 1t is hoped to make
the campaign an intensive one, COM
pleting it all in one day if possible.
The campaign put on last fall was
very successful as far as it went,
but, owing to weather and road condi-
tions, most of the county was not
canvassed. .'--
At present there are 210 renewals
for 1920. It is hoped to raise this
number to at least 400 in this coming
drive. This number viii be neces-
sary, not only to secure funds to carry
on the work satisfactorily, but also
to secure a. representative membership
throughout the county.
The Farm Bureau feels it has no
apologies to offer for it's existence.
Where farmers have made use of it
it has paid their membership fees
many times over. The recently form
ed State and National Federation
will make it possible to accomplish
things for the farmers in a state and
national way. The stronger the
county farm bureaus and the more
members they have, the stronger the
state and national federations.
Do not wait until the campaign
open to renew your membership and
to secure new members; do so now.
SEED CORN.
A great many inquiries have come
to the Farm Bureau office for home
grown seed corn, but only small
amount has been listed so we have
not been able to fill all the orders.
The demand is apparently much
greater than the supply as several
have already said they could have
sold SO bushels more if they had
it to sell. Some tests of crib corn
have shown low vitality. The germ
ination of some of the corn saved
for seed has not come up to expec-
tations.
''This shows the need of testing
m Find ont boxu much oood cood corn
one has and the need of taking early
steps to secure any seed corn neces-
sary.
Anyone having seed corn for sale
is urged to report same to the Farm
Bureau office as soon as possible.