Show GOOD RECORDS OF PIG CLUBS Boys and Girls Improve Methods of Management and Increase the Number of Purebreds Prepared by the United States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment J d of Agriculture Members l of Or b boys boys' ys' ys and girls' girls pig clubs are the pioneers in introducing purebred pigs and Improved methods of management in many parts of the tite South where the swine Industry is making unprecedented progress I This Is true in a marked de degree decree ree in Georgia Among the pig clubs the total sum represented by the hogs and pigs in the hands of the pig club members members mem mem- bers bels of the state stale last ast year was almost a half million dollars The Increase Inthe in inthe inthe the number of purebred pigs raised by the club members in 1018 over 1017 was more than per cent The increase Increase In in- crease in profits on hogs raised in 1018 over the previous year was more than 61 Gl per cent Pig clubs were carried on in connection connection connee tion with school work In many ties Fourteen school pigs in one county raised on the waste from pu- pu i. i u r M k Pt 3 a s w t 4 i r ar arr w r v 7 Young Pigs Being Distributed to Club Members pHs pals lunch baskets sold for at an fill auction sale sale- two Twenty schools In another county raised 22 purebred hogs last winter on waste from the pupils pupils' dinner baskets One town of 2000 people produced pounds of pork from pigs raised In back 1 yards The white boys of the same I county raised of meat hogs and the negro boys An cotton all county reports an Increase Increase increase In In- crease of ot hogs in 1018 1918 Fifty Fifty- seven pig club members In one county rai raised ed head of registered Duroc Duroc- Jerseys The amount Invested was 2300 At an auction sale 80 of the surplus pigs were sold and the returns returns returns re re- re- re turns from the sale together with the value of the remain remaining Ins hogs represented represented s Pig club members had a prominent part In the swine exhibits at the two fairs fahs held in the state and carried carded off many prizes Of the 2103 hogs exhibited exhibited exhibited ex ex- at the Southeastern fair fall were owned and raised by pig-club pig who 31 ribbons In the tite boys won open ring Three of the prizes os were Junior I champions Of the hogs exhibited at the state fair fait 87 were owned an and I raised by pig club ph club boys who won 39 ribbons in the open ring and in prizes One of ot the ribbons was a Junior champion With 28 club dub pigs one county v won on 27 ribbons and prizes amounting to Including the state championship The state pig club wn champlon-wn champion tho year old son of ot a small farmer former who bought his pig at an auction sale for 37 0 At the end of the contest this bog hog was worth In one county six pig club boys who started in their club work with one small pig each will start hog farms this year Three of ot these boys already have their hogs hoga hogsand I and land |