Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1920 — FROM HERE AND THERE IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM HERE AND THERE IN INDIANA

Sixty-three settings of pure-bred eggs have been issued to Vigo County boys and girls as the start fqr a poultry club. The Manilla pig club contest, started recently with 14 boys and 3 girls, enrolled from two townships in Rush county, is creating a great deal of interest in that part । of the county. The Manilla bank; will award .SSO in prizes to each) township this fall, when the contest will close with a show at Manilla. —o — P. W. Clifford, a Porter county farmer, recently paid $2,000 for a pure-bred Holstein bull in Massachusetts. The bull’s six nearest dams averaged over 35 pounds of butter fat in seven days. Such bulls as these will mean much in the improvement of live stock m Indiana. Ten boys living in Noble county embarked in the swine business May 8, when barrows were distributed to them for the club feeding contest in which they have enrolled for this summer. The boys’ corn club in Vanderburg county is well organized this year with 15 members, some of whom expect to go into the business of growing pure-bred seed corn. i - The agricultural committee of the Salem Commercial Club and the Washington county fair association, co-operating with the county agent, have made plans for a coun-ty-wide pig feeding contest this summer, to end at the county fair in the fall when the fat porkers will be placed and cash prizes given the winners in each breed and also sweepstakes -winners. Each boy who enters the contest will be given a season ticket to the fairgrounds and permitted to stay there during the week.