Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 



CLUB MEMBERS SELECTING THEIR SEED IN THE FIELD BEFORE FROST 



The farmer who sees that every grain he puts into the ground is one able to produce a 

 hardy sprout lays the foundation for a big crop 



In Oregon a packing-house distributed 

 a carload of brood sows among the chil- 

 dren of the Hood River region of that 

 State and of Washington. They were 

 sold on credit to these boys and girls, who 

 agreed to raise them according to the 

 Department of Agriculture specifications. 



The buyers were charged 6 per cent 

 interest on the purchase price, to be paid 

 out of the profits from the pigs raised. 

 The school officials of the Hood River 

 region have charge of the experiments, 

 and those boys and girls doing the best 

 work and making the best reports are to 

 be awarded scholarships to the State 

 University, and other prizes. 



THE STORY OF A LOAN 



A farmer in Macon, Georgia, who car- 

 ries a large bank account, went to his 



bank with his twelve-year-old son and 

 endorsed the latter's note for ten dollars. 

 The cashier inquired of him why he was 

 having his boy borrow ten dollars when 

 he himself had so much money in the 

 bank. The farmer replied that his son 

 was going to enter a boys' pig club, and 

 that he wanted him to acquire a banking 

 experience as he went along. He said 

 that it was worth ten dollars to him to 

 see how his boy handled the loan. 



An Alabama philanthropist hit upon 

 another idea for increasing pig-raising in 

 his community. He bought twenty pigs 

 and sold them to as many boys, the bar- 

 gain being that when the boys brought 

 him two pigs to take the place of the one 

 thus sold, the debt should be considered 

 discharged. The philanthropist then took 

 these two pigs and gave them to two 



