The Chemawa American, December 20, 1940, Page 3, Image 3

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A g ric u ltu ra l C lub
The members of this club have been
working with horses for a month. Their
reports, which they file in the Main Office
each week, show that they have had prac­
tice experience in the proper methods of
cleaning and otherwise, caring for the
sanitary conditions of the horse and dairy
barn. Among these experiences, as they
report them, were bedding stalls, feeding
calves, repairing and oiling harness, pro­
per hanging of harness, trimming horses Boys digging post holes while laying out fence line for 4-H poultry
hoofs and shoeing horses; they have also pasture lots.
treated seed grain, driven the harrow, greased
4-H PIG CLUB
and oiled plows, and driven horses.
The 4-H Club boys are now fattening twelve
poultry
head of their pigs for market. They are feeding
The 4-H Poultry boys are progressing rapidly. them ground barley, carrots, cooked cull potatoes,
Their 4-H Enrollment has been completed and and kitchen slop. As soon as these pigs are mar­
their first reports have been sent to the Oregon keted, their flock will be reduced to two brood
State College. They have the posts for their poul­ sows and one litter. The picture insert indicates
try pasture lots nearly all set and have begun the that the boys and pigs are on very friendly terms.
construction of their poultry house. Other boys It shows the pigs eating grain out of the boys
have made applications to be admitted to this very hands. The two small buildings in the background
active group. In addition to carrying on feeding are colony houses. They are built on sleds and
experiments with two pens of hens, they have will be moved about in their hog pastures during
taken over the entire care and management of summer. These houses were built in the carpen­
twelve pens in the laying house. As soon as they ter shop by boys. The members of this club have
have their poultry house built, they will transfer made their third report to the Oregon State Col­
their work to their own building and grounds, lege.
FARM SHOP
where they will have a flock of fifty hens. These
This is a very busy place. The boys reports show
boys, who are under the leadership of Raymond
Dutoit, while receiving practical instruction in that they have had practice in iron handling, heat­
poultry work, are daily applying in practice what ing, bending, pounding, tempering and squar­
they learn during the instructional periods. One ing. They have made clevises, clevis pins, bolts,
of the hens has become so tame that she perches chisels, and iron punches. Sharpening and the
on the boys arms and talks to them. The conver­ proper handling of tools and assisting in the build­
sations must be pleasant, for both boys and hen ing of the club poultry house-is also a part of the
training experiences they are receiving.
seem very happy.
DAIRY CLUB
For the present, the work of these boys
is confined to the farm dairy herd. They
receive instruction and training in dairy­
ing and dairy practices. Among the ex­
periences that the boys contain are: hand
and machine milking, dehorning, disease
treatment, care and handling of milk and
milking equipment. They have the plans
for their dairy barn completed, and con­
struction will begin at once. As soon as
their barn is completed they will transfer
their activities to their own barn. They
will have complete care and management
of their own cows.
Club pigs eating grain out of 4-H boys hands.
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