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FDII YOUNG FOLKS I 



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^ Edward FBigelow / 



W/1P»T YOU WPiMT 



TO Krsow. 



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Tl.e Pig is Useful, Petable and Inter- 

 esting. 



"A twelve-year-L)ld girl, Margaret 

 Lowery, of Mt. Sterling, is the cham- 

 pion pig raiser of Ohio, having been 

 chosen from 628 contestants." 



This item in "The Ohio Teacher" es- 

 pecially attracted my attention because 

 the pig is worthy of careful attention 



from many points of view, and most 

 certainly a young person who has 

 raised a pig better than six hundred and 

 twenty-seven other young people could 

 raise one is entitled to careful consider- 

 ation. So I at once wrote to this fam- 

 ous pig raiser and she replies as fol- 

 lows : 



Sterling, Ohio. 

 To the Editor : 



I picked out two Duroc-Jersey pigs. 

 They were weighed up the first of June. 

 One pig weighed 57 lbs. and the other 

 54 lbs. I fed the pigs three times a day, 

 giving them corn, millfeed and milk. 

 They also ran on blue-grass pasture. 

 My pigs got a bath twice a week. They 

 gained 1.99 lbs. per day, on an average 

 of 3.76 cts. a lb. I will send you my 

 grades : 



Grade on daily gains 100 



Grade on cost gains 80 



Grade on exhibit 100 



Grade on story 96 



Grade on judging 75 



^ Total 445 



The pigs were to be fed from the 

 first of June to the last of August, keep- 

 ing an account of all fed them. They 

 were shown at the Madison County 

 Fair the last of August. At the end of 

 August my pigs weighed 213 and 228 

 lbs. 



Yours truly, 



Margaret Lowery. 



Now here is a good suggestion to 

 }'oung people. A thing that is useful 

 is beautiful and a thing well done is 

 commendable ; therefore we take great 

 pleasure in presenting this little Miss 

 Lowery who sees interest in a common- 

 ])lace pig and out of that interest has 

 won great success. In this connection 

 it will be well for us to read what Mrs. 

 Anna Botsford Comstock says of the 



MISS MARGARET LOWERY. 



