The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-12-03
WINNERS IN TAE Ear PIC Clue

This year for the first time 4 fat pig
club was started in the county. The
regular pig club for growing cut
breeding animals by the boys and
girls has been conducted for four
years, and with such success in slim.
uiating increased interest in the pro-
duction of better hogs by the farmers
tnat 1T was thought that the young
Ioiks might do as valuable education.
al work for the hog raisers alcng the
line of feeding for the most eoonom.
zeal pork production. Furthermore
there is not room for all the pig club
members as growers of breeding
sock, and many of them will have to
raise their animals for the pork mar
ket. So, as an educational work in
the matter of fattening hogs. both for
the men and the boys. the fat mig club
was inaugurated.
The plan of the work is similar tn
that OF the regular pig club. excent
the FEEDING period is for only 100
days. Where boy Owns hogs he
takes one of his own animals. but !
those members who haven't hogs are
supplied by the county agent. The
club this year was financed bv the |
Ocaia National Bank, which put I'M
more than $500 to pay for the pigs
and to provide the premiums. The
work was divided into two classes.
single pigs and pens of three pigs,
and the best pig of a pen was allowed
10 compete as single pig as well as
to compete in the pen class.
In the single pig class the winners
were:
Name Prize |
Carlos Moon. Dunnellon. $50
Ben Bull, Oeala. -. SIS +
Lamar Vineyard, Symmetrical. SO
Adm Moon, Dunnellon. -. ......$
In the pen class the winners were:
Adm Moon, Dunnellon. -. .....$25 I
Carlos Moon, Dunnellon. SIS /
Falkner Carter. Ocala -. SO |
Judging is based en- forty points for
type of animal; 25 points for lowest
cost; 20 points for record kept; Is |
points for daily gain.
The Bull pig and the Vineyard /
pig put on gains at cost of 10.1 and |
14.6 cents per pound. These pigs
were fed on corn and shorts, the
Vineyard pig for the whole period |
and the Bull pig for about one-half /
the period. All the other hogs were
run on peanut pasture, which was
charged for at the rate of 50 per
month TO reach animal Also, the |
Bull pig was run on peanuts for about I
half the time The price allowed for
peanuts is 81 per bushel, and, estimat- /
ing The gain in meat to be l pound for
every pounds of peanuts consumed, |
an acre yielding 80 bushels of pea
nuts will produce 375 pounds of pork /
at cost of s cents a pound The les
son from this demonstration is: Use /
peanuts for making cheap pork The
facts learned from many feeding tests /
in which cCrn and peanuts have been
compared show that meat produced |
on corn costs about so per cent more
than that made on peanuts.
There were twelve membesr of the /
fat pig club and ten finished the con- /
test and exhibited their pigs at the /
county fair. The two best individual |
barrows were shown by Francis Nc
Rae of EyinstOn and Lamar Vineyard |
of Summerfield. Beth pigs wee sent |
to the state fair at Jacksonville to
compete against all boys Of the state. /
Francis won trip to the information
al Live Stock Show at Chicago. cost |
ing $3.50. and Lamar won $40 1--WE I'M
derstand, although we have not re-
ceived the official repcrt) in the Po-
land China classes.
VIM. A. SESSIONS,
County Agent.