Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-19
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A SUCCESSFUL YOUNG MAN.

wish tho county commissioners
would spend a little more on making
good farmers out of us kids on, the
farms. l think it would be worth
They say they are going to stop hav-
ing a county club agent after this
year. and that will mean that there
won't be any more club work. l,ve
learned everything know about rais-
Ing pigs just through what the club
agent and the people at the Agricul-
tural college have taught me, and I
wouldn't have missed it for anything"
Lloyd Larivee, fifteen year old hog
capitalist, was speaking out of the
depths of his heart and the fullness
the livestock game. His interested
listener was The Herald visitor, who
had driven out to see Lloyd's spring
pigs on the farm that the Larivees
now own south of the state univer-
sity. Alice, Lloyd's seventeen year
old sister. spoke with no less feeling
about the work that the club agent
had done for the girls in teaching
them the most advanced methods or
canning. sewing and breadmaking.
Lloyd's story of his pig raising was
an interesting one:
II have just one Duroc Jersey now
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and two months OLD and has eight
little ones. She had twelve to begin
with, but four of them died. She
is purehred SOW. but l have not
had her registered. I have been in
tending to get that done, but we have
been very busy with the spring work,
and things are rather unsettled here
yet, as we only moved to this farm
On March % this year.
Making Money at is. .
THAT is why have so few pigs
at present. had Is last year and had
intended keeping FIVE over the winter,
but I couldn't do that because we
were moving and didn't have place
ready for so many down here. We
used to live out about five miles
northwest Of town. So I sold the
others that had meant to keep over
for foundation stock. I got s35 apiece
for, three of them and $40 for one
boar. The twelve sold last fall as
spring pigs brought in a net amount
Of about 5000. Those pigs weighed
on an average about 200. pounds.
After all expenses were paid I
cleared last year $2S9. I have an
arrangement with my father to pay
him for all the feed. He figures the
feed at the regular prices and lets
me pay. him in pigs at the regular
prices. The feed amounted to $12o
last year. =
500 Clear.
"Since began three years ago I
have banked 500 clear of all expens-
es., I have spent an average of about
Afteen minutes per day looking after
the pigs It's easy when you know
how.
81 started my club work on Janu-
ary 81, 1918. bought SOW from
Marsden and Son of Hendrum,. Min
nesota, for SIS. The county club
agent had come to our school and
asked US how many of US wanted to
start in such work. I wanted to, and
sozwent home and talked it over with
my father, and he thought it would
be a fine thing for me to DO as it
would teach me so much. had al
ways liked pigs, and SO I wanted to
Join the pig club. My father.had some
scrub pigs, Yorkshires and Chester
Whites of no particular breeding
lust pigs. He kept tlrem just for
farm use, not for money making, al
though he occasionally had some ex-
tra ones to sell. We chose the Durocs
1, raise because we didn't like the
Chester Whites and because there
:--c:.o more Du-oc raisers in that COM
Ii11i.ity than any other. and conse-
,uci1tly it would be easy to dispose
CT breeding stock. We got the rangy
bacon type and like them very much
My first SOW had q litter of nine,
and raised eight of them. l kept over
the old SOW and one young one and
sold the other seven. In 1919 kept
over two sows. One Of these had
thirteen little ones and raised only
seven of them; she knocked a trough
over on some of them and killed
them. The other had nine and raised
eight. kept over three sows in
1890. One had seven little ones and
raised six: another had ten and raised
six, ana the other had nine and rails
Cd five. That wasn't such very good
luck. This year plan to keep three
over, and the next year ! want to
keep five over for foundation stock.