Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1917 — WILL BUY HEIFERS FOR BOYS [ARTICLE]

WILL BUY HEIFERS FOR BOYS

Applications May Be Made Up to the Middle of October. Ad Parkison, J. H. Leatherman and Ed Randle will compose a committee which will purchase the Shorthorn heifers for the members of the Jasper County Calf club, according to plans made Monday evening in a meeting attended by representatives of Purdue university, the Jasper County Better Farming' and Livestock associations and directors of the First National bank, which will finance the club. It was thought that these men, with their wide experience .in the cattle business, would be able to make the selections and secure the right prices better than any others that might be named. Clarence Henry, assistant county agent leader, stated that he had been spending considerable time locating the class of heifers desired and read letters from the secretary of the American Shorthorn association and others referring him to localities where the high-class animals desired could be bought. J. M. Shanklin, livestock club leader from Purdue, stated that the idea being worked out jn Jasper county was entirely new and that be was sure it would dcvolop into one of the best things ever started to encourage the introduction of good livestock and to increase the interest of the boys on the farms. Mr-. Shanklin is in charge of making the rules governing the distribution. Henry Paulue of the Better Farming association stated that nothing has been started in the

county along food production lines that has been so warmly received as this. plan to bring in pure-bred livestock and that he considered it a wonderful opportunity for the boys to secure the services of skilled men in buying their foundation animals. It was decided that County Agent Learning should continue to receive app licet ions for heifers tip — nnl : ! the middle of October. The livestock association officers will then select forty or more from this nr.ruber who will receive pure-bred Shorthorn yearling or heifer calves, each boy giving his note for the cost of the individual he receives.' These will be kept by the boys until October, 1918, when they’ will

be sold at anctioh, the boys to receive the difference between the selling price and the original cost The plan has the two-fold purpose of increasing the number of purebred livestock herds in the county and stimulating an interest among the boys in better agriculture.