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bring the boys around and let them do the buying. I will just 

 give you an illustration: Some one in one of the counties wrote 

 us to send him a couple of hogs, which we did. Later we went 

 to one of the southern fairs and we met the gentleman who had 

 bought the hogs for his little boy. He said, "John is down here 

 today; he has some pigs, but he never joined the Boys' Corn 

 Club. I want you to tell him how he can make his pigs grow. 

 I would like to have him go round with you to the different 

 fairs." We took him along, and do you know that little fellow 

 was the most enthusiastic boy you ever saw. He said after he 

 had been to a couple of shows, "I see how they do it." That 

 boy is just a sample of thousands of boys in the south. They are 

 getting wise. These shows are educating the people to the possi- 

 bilities of live stock raising; and it is the best class that are being 

 educated for — it is the younger generation. 



I forgot when speaking of the boys' corn clubs to mention 

 that these southern agents have established for the girls what 

 is known as "Tomato clubs." They are trying to get all young 

 girls in these sections to see how many tomatoes they can produce 

 on one-tenth of an acre; and it has had this economic effect, that 

 in the production of tomatoes the United States Government is 

 today giving these girls under these farm agencies a certain value 

 in the commercial world, and now all the tomatoes grown by 

 girls of the southern tomato clubs have been engaged. There is 

 a fixed purpose in women of the cities to get into communication 

 with the girls who raise tomatoes and other vegetables so they 

 can go direct to the consumers, thereby benefiting both parties. 

 This shows that not only are the boys learning to raise hogs and 

 corn, but the girls are learning to raise vegetables as well. 



I don't know what is the cause of the many inquiries we 

 have had of late concerning live stock. There must be some 

 reason for this great interest. For the last week we have 

 answered between twenty and twenty-five letters each day 

 about pedigreed hogs. I am of the opinion that exhibiting hogs 

 in the south is the cause of this great activity. 



