The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-02-03

eral filters of pigs from some gifts |
had saved for breeding purposes, but
never could get registration papers
on them.
The third year came and | did not
have club pig. At this time the
Southern Ruralist was offering pigs
to the club boys and girls for getting
subscriptions to their paper. / went
to work getting subscriptions as soon
as saw the offer. won a gilt b
she was not much of pig so / did
not show her at the fairs.
THE fourth and my last year came.
Mr.. Gum, the Alachua county agent
at the present time, suggested that
buy boar pig, so / bought one for
a club pig. Then near the time for
the Alachua County Fair | went into
my heard of meat hogs and picked out
three barrows. AS was on the jndg.
ing team last year at the Southeast
ern Fair. my pigs missed three weeks
of feeding, only what they got for
themselves in the pastures. When
returned home had only two weeks
before the fair to get them ready but
sent them on and won first prize
on my boar and pen of barrows.
Besides, have made money on the
Pig Club work, | have sold pigs and
won cash prizes which gave me money
to spend that | could not have had
but for the Pig Club. | had saved
enough money to pay the Highland
Oaks Farm $4,000 cash for boar pig
last summer. In seven years | have
sold sixty-three head for pork and two
for breeding and got $1145.00 for the
sixty.five head. With this pig and
my pen of barrows at the County Fair
| won enough money to pay all ex-
penses of sending them on to the
State Fair where / won $1,000 in cash
and sold my pen of barrows at good
price. have now registered boar,
and am going to buy me a good gilt
or so to go with my boar as a start
toward a herd.
THE club work taught me the value
of sticking to a thing until / win In
1920 | tried out for the Florida Club
Judging Team and failed tried again
in 1921 and made the team. This gave
me trip through Georgia visiting
many of the best herds in that state
and on to the Southeastern Fair On
this trip | learned more about hogs
than would have been able to learn
in five years by staying at home.
owe the trip to the club work.
Five years in succession | won
scholarship to the Boys Short Course
at Gainesville where listened to the
lectures and learned many things
which helped me in my work 1t gave
me better idea of Florida and of the
world in general A country boy
needs to get out from home so he can
see what others are doing and get
ideas from them. The club work gave
me my only chance to see the world
In addition to my short course
scholarship last year l won a S1OO. 90
scholarship to the Agricultural Col
lege, given by the State Bankers AS
ISOLATION. This will enable me to get
a year of college which would have
been impossible but for the club work.
TO sum it all up the club work has
meant to me-money to spend, several
trips out into the world, a year in
college, a better agricultural educa-
ton and start toward a herd of pure
bred hogs which l hope to develop
until it becomes a credit to the boys
club work of Florida.
The following chips" are from the
Agricultural News Service and are
intended for the Farm Column:
True saving lies in wise spending.
Order means peace for the home.
sanity for the mind, and security for
the state.
A dish drainer not only saves time
and labor but it does away with the
-oo-cften-unsan.tary dish towel.
Fifteen minutes of complete relax
alton, taken before she gets so tired
she can't rest, will do more to keep
mother happy and healthy than any
amount OF dope
! Some housewives have tried sys-
TENS and schedules and yet never
have noticed the amount of energy
needlessly lost by bending over sinks
and tables too low.
Nervousness and irritability some
times are only state of mind. Try
standing perfectly still a full minute,
breathe full and deep. let go the ten
sion in the muscles, smooth out the
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