College Brings Purebred Hogs to Benton County
Agricultural agents are working to modernize dry land farming by providing free access to prize breeding stock.
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In addition to the registered Duroc-Jersey boar placed with W. A. Kelso, County Agriculturalist Lee M. Lampson has succeeded in getting the state college to send a registered Tamworth boar and sow for use in Benton County. These two hogs will be placed with Peter Timm and as in case of the Duroc-Jersey, will be for the free use of the dry land farmers. Mr. Lampson realizes that there are great possibilities for hog raising in the hill country and is working on the theory that if the farmers can be induced to stock their farms with good animals it will only be a few years until many thousands of dollars will be coming in through the hog channel. He has found it uphill work to talk the farmers into purchasing thoroughbred stock and has solicited the aid of the college in getting things started.
“Mr. Lampson realizes that there are great possibilities for hog raising in the hill country and is working on the theory that if the farmers can be induced to stock their farms with good animals it will only be a few years until many thousands of dollars will be coming in through the hog channel.”
County agricultural agents once functioned as the primary bridge between land-grant university research and rural economic survival. Their efforts to introduce 'thoroughbred' livestock illustrate the push for scientific management of the land that defined the early settlement period.
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