One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

PLAN No. 751. BOY BELIEVES IT’S WISE TO LEARN BY EXPERIENCE

Experience pays—that’s the belief of a boy of Montgomery County, Indiana, state champion in the sow-and-litter project in 1918. And because he wished to learn by doing from the start, this club member himself selected and bought the sow he entered in the contest.

The hog was an immune, registered, big-type Poland China gilt, and at the time of purchase, in January, she weighed 279 pounds. In April, nine pigs were farrowed, all of which lived. The litter averaged forty-four pounds apiece at nine weeks, when the leader in the boys’ and girls’ club work weighed them. Four were sold in the fall for $50 apiece, one was fattened, killed and sold for $34, and four sow pigs which are being kept are worth at least $200.

All the care of the pigs has been taken by their boy-owner. His father, in the meantime, has become interested and from now on father and son plan to make the raising of the big type Poland China pigs a main line in their farming.