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Requirements January 1960 until June 1972

1. Explain to your counselor the importance of hog and pork production nationally and in your own state.  Describe the type of hog in greatest demand by the consumer.  Submit a rough sketch showing the principal cuts of pork.

2. Give satisfactory evidence that you have raised or helped raise hogs.  Give four rules for success in hog production based on your own experience.  Outline what you consider general good management in breeding methods and care in ensuring healthy litters, with minimum loss before weaning, including labor-saving methods.

3. Write an essay of at least 200 words on sanitation, food, water, shade, and pasture and explain why grains alone are not an adequate food.  Outline in writing the proper feeding from the breeding period through weaning of a litter of pigs.  Discuss fattening and growth.

4. Describe two breeds of hog with which you are personally familiar.  Name at least two other breeds.  Visit a farm where hog raising is a major project, or visit a packing plant or stockyards; describe your visit.

5. Describe symptoms of two hog diseases and two parasites.  Tell what you should do on discovering these symptoms.  Explain how roundworm infestation can be prevented.

6. Tell how to prepare and show a hog for exhibit in fair or stock show.

This merit badge may be earned as a 4-H'er by completing a club project in that subject or as an FFA member by meeting these requirements through the FFA-supervised farming program.