Nogales International

There is a newspaper, The Globe-News, with a live publisher in Amarillo, Texas. The publisher realized that it was to everyone's interest that the farms of the surrounding country be operated on the most profitable basis. Many of the farms had little or no livestock, and grew too much grain. Better care of livestock was also needed on many farms. The paper conducted a pork production contest with the idea that the results would be a great eye opener. And they sure were.

Imagine the surprise of the community when it was found that a 4-H boy had made the best record in the contest. He was 16-year old J. T. McDaniel, and he had won in competition with a lot of men who had raised hogs a good many years. The boy gives credit to County Agent C. B. Martin, who as his county club leader helped him to apply some of the most approved ideas for raising healthy and profitable pigs.

One thing outstanding in the boy's record was that there had been no hogs kept on the farm, so there were no facilities for them. The boy had to provide them, and in doing so he was very thrifty. Most of the things he needed to raise pigs he made with his own hands from plans the county agent supplied from bulletins and books. The boy made two self feeders, he constructed a self waterer from an old barrel and some cement, built a cement bath for the pigs, and a shade out of poles and bundles of grain of little value. He also made three individual hog houses which he moves to fresh ground as needed. He also laid out three pastures. These aids and a balanced ration did the trick.