PLAN No. 728. 33 ACRES, 23 PIGS, GIVE BOYS $2,255.64
Twenty-three boys under 16 years of age, in a Haywood County, Tennessee, pig club, each bought a pig. The average weight of the pigs was 78 pounds. Most of them were registered. In 180 days they attained a weight of 266 pounds each, at a cost for feed of 101⁄2 cents a pound. These pigs at the time of the local pig club show were worth 15 cents a pound, at market prices, making a profit of 41⁄2 cents a pound, averaging a net return to each boy of $11.97 over cost of all feed—a total gain for the club of $275.31.
Now see what the corn club in the same community has done: Thirty-three boys, 16 and under, each cultivated one acre in corn, according to instructions furnished by the county agent, produced an average of 53.1 bushels to the acre at $1.40 a bushel selling price—$74.48—making a total production for all of $2,457. Cost of raising the corn was 271⁄2 cents a bushel, or a total cost of $477.51, leaving a clear profit of $1,980.33
Now add to this the pig club profits of $275.31 and you have a grand profit for the boys of $2,255.64 from thirty-three acres of land and twenty-three small pigs.
If boys can do this well what can a man thoroughly trained in farming do? The government will supply you with unlimited literature on farming if you write to them, and will give you much other assistance if you call on them.