PIG CLUBS.

Matamata Record, Volume X, Issue 883, 15 December 1927, Page 6

PIG CLUBS.

A QUEENSLAND IDEA. Teaching the Young. The pig club movement in Queensland has made marked progress, and it is playing a prominent' part in the agricultural and school life of. the State. There are over 40 pig clubs in operation in different: centres associated with upwards of 60 schools and including between 400 and 500 members. In organising the clubs special attention has been given to impressing upon members the importance of keeping records and noting the various happen--ings connected .with their pigs. The children are required to write an essayentitled * ‘ How I Selected, Fed, Managed, and Exhibited My Pig." In a wireless lecturette recently broadcast by Mr E. J. Shelton, H.D.A., instructor in pig raising, to whose energy and zeal the project owes much of its success, members of pig clubs are urged first of all to secure really good pigs, whether purebred or crossbred. The necessity-for comfortable accommodation for the animals—a nice warm, dry sty, with a good grass run attached so that the pigs can have room to move about in the sunshine and enjoy , some succulent grass and herbage—is emphasised. One member who wa,s able to purchase a purebred pig (and there are a number of members who have purebred pigs) wrote that his pig was a purebred Berkshire sow of good type and quality, one of a batch selected) for the school club by Mr Shelton. Other members of the same club secured purebred pigs of different breeds, as y it was the intention of the parents to' see that the pig cluo was the medium through which more and better purebred pigs were introduced into the district.