Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-11-14
Pig CLUBS HERE
ARE WRIT TENuP
Wal]ace's Farmer Represent.
alive Visits Hamilton
County Pig Club
Raiser.
SEES COTTLE FARM
Willie Cottle, Aged IL, Shows
Result of Pig Club
Work.


E. L. Quaite, representative OF
Wallace's Farmer, recently visited
Hamilton county to find out something
about the work Of pig clubs. The fol
lowing account, from his pen, appeared
i'll that paper:
Pig club work with the boys and girls
has been conducted in Iowa for about
ten years. 1t has only been during the
PAST three or four years that pure bred
ris clubs have been organized. The
former ones We're market pig clubs.
The question is often asked, what re-
suits are being obtained from all this
work with the boys and girls? How
many of them are actually going ahead
and developing pure bred herds of
swine as result of the start with the
Pure bred sows? With this question in
mind. the writer is making some inves-
tigation, and in his succeeding articles
will tell of some Of the club boys who
are today breeders Of pure bred swine.
Knowing that Hamilton county has
been doing some very effective pig club
work for several years, the writer call
cd on Chris Christensen. the county
agent, to ascertain what results he was
getting in his county from pig club
work When l asked him the question.
Are there any herds being establish
ed?" he said There are ten or twelve
pure bred herds Of swine today in this
county which have for their foundation
q pure bred SOW bought in 1918"
At Cottle Farm.
So with Howard Evans, the club
leader, we set out to interview some OF
the boys. The first place we visited
vas that of w. J. Cottle, about ten
miles east of Webster City. We found
him and his son Willie. a lad of about
Il years, out in the field scraping up
some dirt AS soon as we told them our
laission, they tied the team and went
to the barnyard to see the pigs In a
yard on one side of a fence were TWEEN
ty-three big type Polands, ranging from
pigs to aged sows.
"These." said Willie. ARE part of the
thirty.five pure bred pigs l own. All
Of them came from the pig club SOW
bought in 1918" Willie works for his
father during the summer and out OF
school hours, and his father in turn
furnishes the feed. Mr.. COttle casually
remarked however. that Willie had
slightly the better of the bargain.
"Crack" Litter.
After bit Willie said. Now i will
show you my crack litter so we jump
ed into the Ford and went down the
road about half mile and there found
IN Il clover field, where the clover was
III to their backs, Il litter Of eight well
grown big type bears and gifts, that are
going to make some excellent breeding
animals Willie practices self-feedlngs,
putting in oats and tankage, but corn !
he feeds rather sparingly.
Willie paid $12O for his original SOW.
and since getting her he raised seven
filters. To begin with he gave note
which he afterwards paid for with the
,.rocceds from the sale of two helferS.
which he had bought with previous
earnings
William COttle, ST., has high grade
pigs; having made use of Willie's boars.
A ,;ttlo l,tar thp fat her and son plan
- get rid of the grades, and breed MOTH
ing but big type polands. In a few
years. no doubt. passersby the barn VIII
be- attracted by large sign on the barn
which will read something like TINS.
civilian Cottle 4 Son. Breeders OF Big
Type Poland China Hogs"