Agricultural Boys Still on the Job Here
Ivey Blake has sold from his hog project the past year 10 pigs for $85.50 and three porkers that were dressed 496 pounds for $90.28, for a total of $175.78. All from his one brood sow. He has grown out and has on hand a fine Berkshire gilt that has seven pigs; a nice young male hog, a Pinehurst Berkshire, two nice 6-week-old pigs, and a third brood sow that he purchased lately. All of his expense has been $114.75, not including his old brood sow.
Allen Blake purchased a nice Berkshire gilt from the Pinehurst Farms last fall and has just sold her first litter of eight pigs for $8 or $64 [total]. He states that he could have sold three times as many. He has fed out and sold three porkers for $87.45 or $151.45 for both. His expense has been $65, not including the cost price of his sow. She is worth more now than when he bought her lat fall. He has recently bought a nice brood sow from Wiley Nance, known as the Russel sow. He is growing out a young pig for a brood sow, which will give him three brood sows for another year.
Earl and Colon Hurley have sold six pigs from their two sows for $60 and have seven on hand either to keep for brood sow or feed out. In addition, they have bought four recently for $30, spent $32.50 for feed, and sold the four pork for $113.50.
Earl Hicks has recently sold a litter of seven from his Berkshire sow for $52.50. His expense was only $14.50 and the table scraps.
Wiley Nance has sold around 25 pigs from his farm.
These boys started this work two years ago when they fed out 223 pigs from the Pinehurst Farms and repeating it again last year with 28 pigs. Since that time a few of the farmers of the count, under the direction of County Agent A.R. Morrow, fed out and marketed a car load of porkers.
Just recently Mr. A.E. Bridges at the Hurley Dairy has fed out and marketed around 40 head. Blalock and Watkins at their Rocky Creek Farm around 25 head, Mr. Mark Harris 10 head, Mr. John Hicks 7 head, and Mr. D.S. Hurley around50 on his Mt. Gilead farm, and several with a smaller number. All of these were marketed locally and at Lexington, Salisbury, etc. In every case this work was carried on at a profit.
Editor's note: These hog projects were were forerunners of the Extension Service 4-H Club, and were run by the Ag. Agent, the local schools, or a combination of the two. A school that had an ag. teacher might take the lead; otherwise, the ag. agent would go into the school and form a club.
From the front page of The Montgomery Herald, Troy, N.C., Thursday, May 27, 1926
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