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Title: Boys' agricultural club work in the southern states
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, I. W. (Isaac William), 1861-1945 Chambers, C. L. (Charles Leonard), 1884-
Subjects: Boys Southern States Societies and clubs 4-H clubs Southern States
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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lubs, usingthese as a means of providing a sufficient supply of feed for theiranimals. Those who know how to properly care for live stock shouldsecure pure-bred stock and thus begin the building up of improvedherds. (Fig. 5.) Valuable «pure-bred stock, however, should not beentrusted to the exclusive care of boys inexperienced in the handlingof live stock. Pig, calf, sheep, and poultry clubs have been organized in theSouth in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry and thatbureau has placed a specialist in a number of States to cooperate withthe agents of the Office of Extension Work in the South in the animal 12 DEPAKTMEI7T GIKCTTLAB 38, U. S. DEPT. OF AGEICULTUKE. production club work. The following basis of competition lias beenestablished for the animal production club work: General basis of award for animal production clubs. Meat Hog. Ter cent. (a) Individuality, with respect to the purpose for which it is to he used 30 (b) Daily gain 20 (c) Cost of gain 30 (d) Records 20
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Fig. 5.—The club boy and his pure-bred bull calf, the prospective sire of his future herd. Breeding Hog. (a) Individual, best hog with respect to the purpose which it is to serve___ 40 (b) Greatest daily gain 1.1 (<••) Cheapest cost of production • 2.) (d) r,<-st kept record 20 Sow AM) LlTTEB. (a ) Besl sow and litter, considering purpose they are to serve 25 Hi) Average rate of gain per pig 15 (•1 <0 (/> Percentage of pigs raised from total number farrowed 10 (c) Record 20 13 Where it is impractical to show the sow and litter at a State con-test the following is suggested: Per cent. (a) Success in raising pigs farrowed 40 (&) Business showing 40 (c) Best kept record 20 Calf, Beef. (a) Conformation and trueness to type 40 (D) Daily gain 15 (0 Cost of production 25 (tf) Written report giving record of feeding home-grown feeds, labor, and management _: 20 Calf, Dairy.

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