12 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION 



the development of a pork industry is attested by the 

 establishment in recent years of several packing houses 

 throughout the South. 



Boys' pig clubs. Of all the organized efforts at im- 

 provement in the swine industry in the southern states 

 none is accomplishing more than the boys' pig club work. 

 This work is fostered by federal, state and local officials 

 and organizations, with the most active part, however, 

 being taken by the Bureau of Animal Industry in co- 

 operation with the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration 

 Work of the Bureau of Plant Industry. In each state is 

 placed a state pig club agent, a specialist in swine hus- 

 bandry, who looks after and supervises the work in his 

 state. In this work the county is made the unit, but 

 frequently smaller units in the county are made. County 

 demonstration agents usually have the immediate re- 

 sponsibility of organizing the work in the county. This 

 pig club work has been in existence a comparatively 

 short time, but already it has accomplished wonders in 

 the way of introduction of improved blood, the teaching 

 of improved methods of production, and of showing what 

 can be done with swine in a small way. 



The objects of the pig club work are briefly set forth 

 in Farmers' Bulletin 566, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, as follows : 



1. To stimulate an interest in swine production and to 

 teach the boys how to raise better and cheaper hogs by 

 the use of improved blood and the growing of forage 

 crops. 



2. To increase the number of hogs raised on the farms 

 in order that the meat for the home and that required to 

 feed the extra farm labor may be produced instead of 

 being bought. 



