The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1921-01-14
Boys Pig Club

anu SdineIOIl communities received
a shipment of five registered Duroc
Jersey sows by express Tuesday
afternoon. The shipment came from
Armour 4 Co. of Spokane and was
received here bv the five pig club
members August Koepp, Homer
Parks. Carl Larson, LeonardWolf
and August Hartung.
These fine hogs we're secured for
the club members through the
efforts of County. Agent Skuse and
Jesse Hoffman, livestock Improve
ment committeeman of Leland, and
the boy who secured one may con
slider himself particularly favor
ed young fellow and ought to make
good use Of the opportunity afford
ed him to learn practical methods
of hog raising.
| Mr.. Skuse met with the boys in
Kendrick Tuesday afternoon and
gave an outline of the methods to be
followed. Each boy signs a con-
tract with Armour 4 Co. In ad-
ditlon to this he has to keep a
record of the kind of feed, quantity,
cost and method Of feeding so that
it will be possible to ascertain the
cost of producing pork IN this COM
munity. The accuracy and neat
ness OF the accounts kept IN this
book count materially in the success
OF the boys when the results of their
efforts are summed up at the Arm
our lnalnd Empire pig club contest
to be held next fall.
The sows sent to the boys of this
community are the large type Duroc
Jersey and are due to farrow IN
March
The agreement of the plan for the
Armour Inland Empire pig club
contest, under which these pig clubs
are established, is between the ex-
tension departments of Washington
and Idaho colleges and Armour's
bureau of agricultural research and
economics, acting IN the counties
through the farm bureau.
Registered bred sows and gifts
are loaned to members of standard
clubs IN five counties of northern
Idaho and five counties of eastern
Washington, the colleges to use
their Judgement as to whether
clubs should be formed IN the same
counties employed in 1920. The
purpose of the contest is to encour-
age swine production in the lnlaEd
empire, and as step In this direc-
ton, the club members securing
sows are. to exhibit two pigs each at
the livestock shows at Spokane and
Lewiston.
Should the club member desire
to keep the entire litter as we'll as
the sow, he may do so by sending
Armour Il Co. check for the
: original value of the SOW before the
pigs are exhibited. The ones ex-
: hIbited are the first and third best.
The sow and the remainder of the
litter becomes the property OF the
clup member.
The club members are provided
: with car fare and accommodation
upon the first exhibit. Nine cash
prizes, anfeanting to $3.50, are
offered IN the gilt class and four
prizes, amounting to $50, in the
boar class.
The club members attending also
compete in a hog Judging contest,
which will have part IN determin-
ing the grand championship. en-
r. titling the winner to a free trip to
. Chiclago, in December, this alone
being valued at 5000.
As an encouragement to continue
club work where once started, each
county in northern Idaho and east
. ern Washington where Armour bred
gifts were placed with club men,
bers during the spring of 1920 will
be entitled to send one club member
to compete in the pig club judging
and showing contest for the trip to
Chicago. This club member must
own the pig that is shown, and it
must be the progeny of the bred
gifts put out IN the contest of 1920.