Show A PRIZE PIG yow how one teacher of sixty pupils in iii a one room schoolhouse school hourie situated in the forests of north corollia Ca Carol rolLia hia succeeded in getting pupils interested in practical agriculture ri with a pig and less lesa then an acre of uncultivated land is told in a report of one 0 of f th the C field workers of the U S department of agriculture A farm paper offered a purebred pig as a prize for securing a certain number of subscriptions this energetic school teacher set out among the parents of her pupils and succeeded in selling enough subscriptions to win the pig when the pig arrived the pen was already built by the school children on the grounds for its reception ce cep tion the parents were in vii ed and talks on pig pig raising were vere made the rest of the day was spent in driving around to I 1 some of the best pig farms in in the country where various kinds of livestock were scored and discussed I 1 the pupils learner learned that a pig could not thrive entirely on oil 1 scraps from lunches and onal ional ears of corn an inter ested member of the school corn com mattee offered the use of his team and implements and the pupils started to work clearing the forest land to use as a for age pasture they then plant ed crops of rye wheat rape and grass to afford the pig gr grazing a zing plots of greens forage A cold frame was also put in and cabbage plants were grown for sale I 1 the ithe money thus realized being turned over to buy whatever additional dit ional feed was needed to keep pig As a result of the interest roused aroused taxpayers and membeni of the school board have given their support to the establishment of a small demonstration farm more land isto is to be pur chasec and the county agent is to visit the school each week since the pig was brought into the school less than a year ago the membership of the county pig club has more than trebled |