The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-07
BUSINESS MEM
AND WOMEN TO
AID CLUB WORK
Ambitious Plans Made for
Boys Pig and Corn and the
Girls Clubs in Shelby Dur
ing Year 1920.

Club work OF the boys and girls in the
rural communities Of Shelby county will
have the support in 1920 OF a group Of
business men and women Of Memphis
who have arranged to co-operate with
W. NJ hardy county agent for the
boys club work, and Miss Mary Nc
GoWan, home demonstration agent. This
group is headed by George L. James
president of the William r. Moore Dry
Goods company and consists further Of
Dwight NJ. Armstrong, Of the CONNER
Cial Trust and Savings bank; Fred Col
Inns. OF the Bank OF Commerce and
Trust company; Miss Charl Williams,
county superintendent Of schools, and
Or. II. r. Lloyd, director of the Cham
Der of Commerce farm bureau
Announcement of the plans Of the
committee was made Monday afternoon
by W. NJ. Landess, county agent The
committee will endeavor to bring about
the formation OF local committees Of
men and women In the various commu-
mites Of the county, including bankers,
who Will finance projects undertaken
by the boys in their pig and corn clubs,
or the girls in their poultry and canning
clubs. They will also endeaVor to see
that the plans Of the young folk are
worked out along such concrete prac-
tical lines that they constitute a tan
gible risk for bankers or others to con-
slider.
The plan will be explained in the va
rious communities which will be Wis
tied during the short course, starting
Jan, ~. which will be conducted under
the direction OF Mr.. Landess and Miss
MCGOWAN
One OF the important features of the
club work for 1920 for Shelby county
will be the regular issuance Of a month
ly paper on club activities. A prize
contest Is now being conducted by Mr.,
\ a fna fnss al Tt,a
prize for the best suggestion will be
awarded to some boy or girl in club
work about the last Of January by Mr..
Hardy.
Another project for the year is a
summer camp for the pig and corn club
boys, probably held in cooperation with
the West Tennessee Normal school, for
one or two weeks of combined fun and
study. 1t is planned to have the boys
study agricultural subjects part OF the
mornings In camp, and In the after
moons spend portion of their time
judging stock.
It is probable a camp might also be
| conducted for girls, but this plan has
not yet been as definitely worked out
as in the case of the boys.
Mr. Landess said he hoped to train
| the club boys in stock judging so that a
| TO the international live stock show in
| Chicago In December to compete IN the
stock judging events
| There Is one plan on the program for
| boys club work which is entirely new
and has not before been undertaken In
Shelby county This Is the plan for calf
clubs, The plan ID In two parts--beef
viii start with a good grade beef
calf, weighing from 200 to 400 pounds.
He will winter the calf, preferably on
winter pastures, farm roughage and
cottonseed meal, pasture next summer
and sell in the fall in cooperative
loads. In the latter the members will
buy pure bred or hlgh-grade Jersey or
| Holsten calves; winter as instructed
| in the case Of beef calf, pasture through
| the summer, breed In fall, winter and
sell the following year with calf at
side.
Raise Own Feed.
The pig club work this year will be
divided into breeding and feeding clubs
In the former the member will start
with a pure-bred pig, bred gilt or SOW
pig club member will feed his pig fol-
leither his own butchering or cooper
atiye marketing. In both cases the
members viii start with hog Weighing
100 pounds and feed from six to eight
weeks. when they will either butcher OF
market In cooperative loads with other
members.
Special attention, Mr.. Landess states
will be paid to the feeding OF hogs. fol-
the market by the club boys. And II
this connection the most important par
of the program will be to encourage the
bows to raise their own feed This Il
the great fault with West TENNESSEE
live stock growers, which we hope t
correct in the boys" said Mr. Landess
The corn club member must agree t
| cultivate one acre of corn on one of thu
following kinds of land; Sod land, lane
| where legumes have been grown natur
allv fertile soil, or upland land that HI
will manure.
heads was organized at a meeting hell
in the farm bureau at the Chamber 0
Commerce Saturday.
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