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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1940)
C hem aw a A m e ric a n A Publication D evoted to the Progress o f Indian Education VOLUM E X X X X I CH EM AW A, OREGON NOVEM BER 29, 1 9 4 0 Chem aw a’s N e w A g ric u ltu ra l P rogram N o w U n d e rw a y Agricultural 4-H Club work is definitely on the forward march on a longtime program which has been outlined by department heads, under the supervision of Mr. Wallace Totten, During the past four years, this work has been carried on as an active farming activity in which a total of 52 boys actually carried on all of the operations necessary in farming; which included acreage measurements, plowing, discing, harrow ing, planting, sowing, cultivating, floating, weeding, hoeing, fertilizing, disease and pest con trol, harvesting, sorting, grading, storing, and marketing of crops. Out of the returns from their crops, these boys financed all of their operations and received, as their own, the net profits. During the past four years they farmed from twelve to twenty acres each year,the crops they produced were: wheat, barley, corn, onions, onion seed, beets, carrots, beans, tomatoes, cabbage, and lettuce. The new course, now under operation on a long time program, briefly, is as follows: poultry UNDER RAYMOND DUTOlT Boys interested in poultry will build and equip a farm flock poultry house such as is used in Western Oregon, and make drawings and work models of one such as should be built in their home community. They will also build poultry fences, grow green pasture crops, brood, raise, feed and have all care of a flock of not more than fifty hens during the first year, a n d gather, grade and market the eggs produced. VEGETABLE GARDENING UNDER MISS EUCIA PAGE This department will be limited to children of the lower grades, who are interested in gardening. They will prepare, plant, care for, harvest and market the vegetables they grow. They will also care for a few chickens and hutches of rabbits. SW INE UNDER DIRECTION OF FRED RATZBURG Interested boys in this project will equip and maintain a hog house.Care for, feed, and manage their herd, grow hog pasture and feed crops. (They now have a fine herd of nineteen pigs). This herd N U M B E R TH REE is the surplus of what they have produced during the last three years. The boys will sell their pork on the nearby market at Salem. The school herd sire, which is an outstanding animal, will be available to the boys. 4—H CLUB WORK UNDER DIRECTION OF A .I. O’REIEEY. Plans have been completed with Waynd D. Harding of the Oregon State College Extension Service for carrying on this work extensively. The 4-H Pig Club enrollment has been com pleted and the boys are now very busy with their pigs, plans, reports, and records. Projects in other activities are being completed. All 4-H Club boys will have exhibits of their best at the State Fair in Salem. Older boys who wish to continue commercial crop activities will be permitted to carry them on a scale such as each boy who enrolls can handle. All instructors and leaders who lead these ac tivities will work under the direct supervision of Mr. Wallace Totten. FARM SHOP UNDER DIRECTION OF W. E- AEEEN Boys interested will repair farm machinery, make equipment, including clevises, clevis, hay hooks,door hooks, single and double trees, even- CContinued on page 7? -------- ▼--------- Miss Edna Groves C alled In this issue, we wish to extend our deepest sympathies to the members of the family and many friends of Miss Edna Groves, former work er in the Indian Service, who passed away at her home in Corvallis on November 28. During her many loyal years of service to the Indian Service, Miss Groves held many positions splendidly. She was once the Supervisor of Home Economics, for the entire Indian Service, and Di rector of Education for Territory East of the Mis sissippi. After coming to the Northwest a year ago, Miss Groves was Director of Indian Educa tion for Oregon, Idaho, Utah and part of Nevada. Miss Groves, during her years in the service, was a ceaseless worker, and greatly improved the stand- and of living in our Indian Schools. Miss Groves recently retired from the service to her home in Corvallis, due to illness. She was a member of a pioneer family at Corvallis.
