Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-21
BOYS AND GIRLS
Of SAN MIGUEL
MAKE PROGRESS
Club Work Under County
Agent Jones Gets Results
in Hog-RaiSing and Cat
tie Judging.
Special 10 The journal

Miguel county will send both a
stock judging team and girls de-
monstration to the agricultural col
1ege for the annual contest on Oc-
tober 2S. County Agent Jones
states that there will be team of
four boys and girls team of three
members to represent this county.
Last year there was only judg-
ing team that represented the
county. The meet was held at
Clovis and the home team made
third place. The team was new
in the work as it was the first
year that the county ever partici-
pated. This year there are club
members taking part who are in
their second year Of club work so
that their last years experience
should help them.
Pig Club Work.
The first real club work that
was ever carried on in the county
was started last year when five
clubs were organized with a mem
bership of about forty members
Four Of the five clubs worked on
hog raising while the fifth entered
the poultry work. At that time
there were few registered, or pure
bred hogs in the county. Inc Las
Vegas Savings bank offered to sup
ply all the needed funds for the
buying of pure-bred livestock ana
poultry. Each of the boys enter
ing the work was supplied with
regi stored hog or with pure-bred
chickens, The hogs were hard TO
locate and in many cases the price
was high, but every boy who made
application secured his pig. Some
of them paid as high as $50 for one
pig. The average price paid was
about S25.
Each member is required to keep
a record Of all feed fed to the pig
and also of all the time that Is
spent in caring for it. He must
keep records of all animals bought
and sold and at the end of the year
they must render a statement 10
the county agent of his receipts
and expenses He also has to pay
the note at the bank for the origl-
nal cost of the pig. The banker
made the notes payable in SIN
months with the privilege of renew
ing for another six months. me
rate of interest to the club members
was fixed at two per cent less than
that generally charged. Nearly all
of the members paid the notes when
they came due, paid their fathers
for the feed that the pigs con-
sumed and had quite a little bal
ance at the end af the year. by
giving the club members the year
to pay their notes, the banker MADE
it possible for them to raise a NJ
ter of pigs, part of which could
be sold to pay the loan.
Use Registered Pigs.
The cluJ motto is, make the pest
better" So, in the club work moth
ing hut the best of animals is con-
sidered. Never does a club mem
Der keep anything but registered
animal and in securing the regis
tered animal nothing but the pest
Of the pedigreed stock is CHOSEN
Quality is the first and most I'M
portant consideration, always COM
ing before price. The boys en-
courage others to follow their
motto by offering nothing but the
choice Of the filters for sale. the
moor or mediocre of the filters are
not offered for sale as breeding |
stock. but are sold to the butcher
for meat.
The boys work is having Its ef-
feet in the different communities.
In some cases, where the fathers
were reluctant to let their boys pur-
chase the high priced animals, the
fathers refused to let their boys sell
any of the offspring off the farm,
They said: These pigs are worth
As much to me as they are to any
one else, and I'll pay the boy as
much as anyone else can ortef.
In several cases the boy has more
than paid for the feed of the boar
pig by letting his father use it for
breeding. In other instances the
fathers have decided that the regis
tered pig is a whole lot better than
the common one used before, and
SO the father is now using a regis
tered male pig for the first time in
his life. Several fathers are now
using nothing but registered anil
mails both male and female among
their hogs for breeding purposes.
During the club season, meetings
are held with the club every two
weeks. At these meetings methods
of feeding are discussed, the boys
are made familiar with the feeding
of the common feeds;
of rations for all farm
animals is also discussed, and the
feed requirements for pigs of diff
ferent ages studied. Judging OF
livestock is another phase of the
club work. Several judging tours
are conducted by all of the mem
bers of each club during the fore
part of the season. A judging con-
test is conducted in each club to
determine the members best quail /
fled to represent the county at the {