A LUCKY NIJMBKll 



Started This Duroc Herd 



^sT^N^ARRELL WAREHAM drew a 

 ^~-/ 1 number from a hat. Although 

 / y he didn't know it, it turned out 

 to be the lucky one. The number he 

 drew corresponded with the number on 

 the back of a Duroc-Jersey gilt and served 

 to establish Darrells ownership of the 



That was in 1930 when A. D. Clausen, 

 vocational agriculture teacher of Taylor- 

 ville, Clhristian county, organized a 

 Duroc-jcrsey Gilt Club for 12 members 

 of his class. The boys bought 12 gilts 

 from Lester Lehman, a prominent breed- 

 er, for $20 each. 



Six of the boys showed their pigs at 

 the State Fair. Darrells gilt won enough 

 prizes to pay back the money he h.ul 

 borrowed to buy her. 



.^I^it' 



TWO MANAGERS — NO PRESIDENT 

 O. F. Wareham and sons have a thriv- 

 ing dairy on a rented farm. 



That was the beginning of the Ware 

 ham herd. Darrell bought Top Superba 

 for his herd sire and went into swine 

 breeding. By 1932 he had saved about 

 20 gilts. From them he selected a few 

 outstanding ones as the foundation sto.k 

 of his show herd. 



During AiC.se busy years. Darrell grad- 

 uated from high school, farm pri.es 

 dropped to new lows and Darrell, with 

 his father and brother, opened a dairy to 

 market the milk from their Jersey cows. 



Darrell will tell you that they had very 

 little money when they .started their en- 

 terprise. But he will also tell you that 

 if they hadn't formed a partnership and 

 worked together they couldn't have suc- 

 ceeded as they have. 



Both boys are married and live in 

 town: their father and mother live on 

 the farm. Each member of the partner- 

 ship gets a weekly salary which is enough 



to furnish each family a good living 

 All surpluses over a reserve are returncil 

 to the business. 



It took a lot ot work to set up a dairy 

 on a rented farm that had been a gram 

 farm. That's what the Warehams did; 

 they remodeled the barns, put in milkers 

 and stanchions and built a small bottling 

 works. 



O. F. Wareham, Darrells father, man- 

 ages the farm, handles the herti and 

 helps with the milking. Darrell is the 

 sales manager. He operates a route, keeps 

 accounts and promotes sales. ()r\ille. 

 the other member of the firm, operates 

 another route, oveisecs preparation of 

 their products. 



NX'hilc thev were buildin" a dairy busi 

 "ness in laylorville, Warchair. brotlicrs 

 Durocs were taking prizes on the sliow 

 circuit. The old Orrin C herry Kim: 

 blood of the gilt of the lucky num'ocr 

 was standing the herd in good stead. 



At the State Fair in iy3'>. the Ware 

 ham hogs lost but one blue ribbon they 

 might have won. That year they h.id the 

 reserve champion barrow of the sho.v 



The following year they did even let- 

 ter, lliis is the way Darrell describes it; 

 "After we h.id size ! up the competi- 

 tion, we saw a chance ti. win a first in 

 the middle weight barrow ilass. 



"We won the championship ot "he 

 breed in the barrow class and went to the 

 ring to compete for the grand champion- 

 ship over all breetls. Then the judge 

 gave us the blue. Fella, if I haAi't 

 grabbed the fence I would have fainted I ' 



The grand chamjMon barrow. we«gh- 



■38 MODEL 



Warehama' new herd sire weighed 300 

 lbs. at 6 months of age. 



On Cost of Production 



Wnno SAY that the market shall 

 ^ guarantee the cost of produc- 

 tion plus a profit and leave it 

 to the producer to fix the scale oi 

 production is to flood the world with 

 products that nobody wants. To 

 base the market price absolutely 

 upon the cost of production and to 

 readjust wages to keep up with in- 

 creased cost of commodities means 

 to fix prices, and that is what many 

 a man advocates now, so that 

 everybody will know what he is do- 

 ing.' 



•"Have we thought this thing out? 

 We can of course say that a certain 

 commodity shall sell at a certain 

 price, and that the buyer must pay 

 that price or leave it. So far so 

 good. But no law of man can com- 

 pel the buyer to pay the price and 

 TAKE THE STUFF, particularly if he 

 has not the money and cannot get 

 it. Right theie is where pric° fixing 

 breaks down, and that is the reason 

 that no one of the price fixing 

 schemes tried in Rome, England and 

 elsewhere could work. Such a 

 scheme can work only when the 

 demand is clearly above the supply, 

 and only so long as it remains 

 above it. 



It is for an organization such os 

 this to be informed in matters of 

 this sort and to stand as a stone 

 wall against mistakes, no matter 

 how insistent the popular clamor. 

 It is the only way to forestall a 

 dangerous mob psychology in af- 

 fairs agricultural 



"We need more data upon the cost 

 of production, certainly, but as a 

 guide to practice, not as a ba'sis of 

 fixing prices in time of peace. These 

 must be I >lt to bargain, to contract 

 and to the processes o! trade and 

 here is a great field for this and 

 similar oiganiiations." — Eugene 

 Davenport at lAA Annual Meeting. 

 Ian. 14. 1920. 



ing 210 pouiuis was sold to Cii;\ernor 

 Horner (or tjie rcxorj price of Sl.^~) per 

 pound. The sale of the pig plus his 

 winnings netted Wareham Brothers more 

 than S6(»0. In addition, their laid won 

 ■dl po^^ible firsts except one for the sec- 

 ond consecutive year. 



Building up the top Duroc herd in the 

 state while establishing one of tlie three 

 largest dairies in Taylorville re<.]uired lots 

 of brawn, clear thinking and organiza- 

 tion 



The Warehams patronize the ( hristian 

 County I'armers Supply Company for 

 most of their fuels, oils and other lubri- 

 cants. And with two delivery truiks, a 

 farm trutk ^:^'.\ a family car they tan buy 

 in large quantities. Their p.itronage is 

 really worth while. 



In the short spaie of five years, a Incky 

 number of a pig started two' Kiys on 

 their way to a future on the fa I'm. Tliey 

 learned early that organization tounts and 

 that tlrty can get more done through 

 working together. 



DECEMBER, 1937 



23 



