BOYS' FARM CLUBS 



methods of growing com, but I believe that their work in these 

 clubs tends to imbue them with a thirst for knowledge and that they 

 will grow up into scientific and progressive farmers, whose work 

 will lift the standard of agriculture throughout our entire section/ 



Correspondence with educational leaders shows that Dr. 

 Knapp fully realized that the Corn Clubs would lead to Pig 

 Clubs, Calf Clubs, Potato Clubs and other clubs. He rejoiced 

 in the evolution of the club, which indicated that the members 

 were developing into broad, scientific and practical farmers 

 and business men. He then said : ' ' This learning agriculture, 

 which is composed of the following ingredients — one-eighth 

 science, three-eighths art and one-half business methods out 

 of a book — is like reading up on the handsaw and jack plane 

 and hiring out for a carpenter." He took genuine pleasure 

 in seeing these boys learn real agriculture as he had conceived 

 it and also by the methods which he urged. 



All phases of Club Work can furnish stories of achieve- 

 ment by the youngsters. The various live stock clubs are all 

 getting splendid results. Perhaps a good Pig Club record will 

 suggest what can be done with calves, lambs and other animals. 

 The story told by Amos Roy, of Yukon, Okla., is a good one. 

 He says : 



"I bought my gilt of my father on December 7, 1916, the day 

 she was bred put her in an alfalfa pasture alone, so no other hogs 

 would hurt her or eat her feed. Her weight when I bought her was 

 290 pounds. 



She farrowed eleven living pigs and one dead one. I was 

 successful in making her raise the eleven pigs and after showing 

 them at the fairs, I sold ten of them at six months of age for $505.80 

 and one at one year, bred, for $100.00, making $605.80 besides $205.50 

 in prize money won at the fairs, making a total of $811.30 and I had 

 the old sow left with another litter of pigs. 



The total amount of feed eaten by my gilt from breeding to 

 farrowing was: Corn 432 pounds, bran 125 ponds, shorts 125 

 pounds, tankage 62^/^ pounds. Her gain was 175 pounds and cost 



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