Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — Movies Showing Methods of Increasing Country’s Pork Supply—Boys’ Pig Clubs [ARTICLE]

Movies Showing Methods of Increasing Country’s Pork Supply—Boys’ Pig Clubs

As a means of helping to Increase the pork supply, the United States department of agriculture has released to the motion picture theaters, through one of the large motion picture companies, a film showing the work of the boys’ pig clubs which the department is organizing in all parts of the country in co-operation with the extension divisions of the state agricultural colleges. The film shows methods of instructing farm boys, and in some instances girls, who have joined the agricultural clubs, how to raise better pigs and the methods used by club members in carrying out instructions. The first ’lesson taught in the film stony is that it costs no more to feed and care for the pig of carefully selected stock than the scrub, while the results in meat produced 4s greatly in favor of the wellbred animal. The picture shows further how to feed and care for the pigs, how to protect them from disease, and how to shelter them from the inclemency of winter and the heat of summer. The results of wise selection and intelligent care are shown in the wellgroomed, fat, healthy porkers wearing the prize ribbons they have won. The first pig club was organized in Louisiana in 1910. Now approximately 45,000 members are enrolled in the pig clubs throughout the country.