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Craier Ag. Dept. Winds Up Courses In Farm Shop Central Point-Fifty-two stu dents in Agriculture I of the Crater High school vocational agriculture department have completed a six week course in farm shop skills, according to Ed Griggs, instructor. Skills include practice in elec tric welding, brazing, acety lene cutting, tap and die work, gorging,' tool sharpen ing, rope work and carpentry. Skill projects constructed by the boys i n c 1 u d e d bolts threaded and made from round steel rod, hay hooks, and rope calf - halters. Each boy sharpened two twist drills and was required to drill a hole in a piece of steel with one of the drills, Griggs said. The Agriculture I students are starting a course in be ginning livestock, diseases. A skill chart will be posted to credit each member as he be comes Capable of performing various terinary skills. The chart will include 22 skills including drenching aiimals, giving Aibcutaneous,:. intra muscular, intraperitoneal and intravenous shots with a veterinary syringe. The morning Agriculture II class has returned to its daily two-hour periods of shop. The afternoon Agriculture II class wilD enter the shop after a course in land-jadging. The Ag. II boys have spent' the last six weeks in the class room studying poultry,' soils, farm electricity, agriculture mathematics and; livestock feeding.- The Ag. Ill boys - are en gaged in a study of advanced crop production. The Ag.-IV boys are constructing projects in the shop. 0 Crater Future Farmers of America President, John Cas ter, is preparing an instruc tion course in. beginning swine production which will be presented to , the Ag. I class in two weeks. Each year a senior boy is offered the opportunity to teach a two weeks unit of study to be ginning agriculture students. The senior selected to teach j is generally a boy witn a potential interest in educa tion or technical agriculture as a career. Last year, Allen Barnes, chapter president, presented a study in agricul tu mathematics. Prelimi nary plans are being made for the Crater FFA parent and son banquet which will be held in the Crater High school gymnasium April 28. Committee chairmen select- MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. I U C Thursday, March 3 1 , 1960 This Week's Homes of Distinction eel by-John Caster, president are: Don Denning, decora tions; Don Ryan, invitations; Pete Melsted, food; and John Caster, program. Four currently enrolled Crater chapter members now hold the State Farmer degree. John Caster, i and Don Ryan received the degree last year. This year, two juniors, David Foote and Jim Frank, were elevated to the State Farmer degree. Winter adult courses in crops and soils science and farm electricity were com pleted this week. Readers are urged to investigate the pos sibility of attending one 'of the two adult courses which will be offered next fall. Ac tual selection of courses will be made by the school admin-' istration and advisory council this summer. , Recent visitors at the Cra ter FFA chapter include Doris Owens, last year's chapter sweetheart, Allen Barnes, past chapter president; Bob Eldon, past chapter president; and Mike Redmond, last year's chapter treasurer. Miss Ow ens, Eldon and Redmond, are attending Oregon State college. Barnes is a student at Southern Oregon college. Fir Seedlings Now Available The state department of forestry has received a new supply of excellent 2-0 Doug las fir as of March 24, accord ing to Charles R. Ross, farm forestry specialist at Oregon State college. It now has on hand 300,000 Douglas fir seedlings. "It is urgent these seed lings be put in the ground within the next two or three weeks," Ross said. "Time is of the essence." Orders for more than 15. 000 trees will be accepted, Ross said. It has been a rule that orders larger than 15, 000 Douglas fir would not be accepted, but because of the time element, this restriction has been lifted, Ross added. The forestry department al so has about 20,000 Scotch pine and an ample supply of 2-0 ponderosa pine. "Some favor spring plant ing because the trees are ex posed to less damage from animals and severe weather," the . forestry specialist point ed out. "If the ground contin ues to have a good supply of moisture through April, sur vival may be; as good as would be the case in other seasons.". '.' ' ; ' V LIVING OOM t & V , 18,13 . JL Jl f oLE f t ' y " 0 o . f . w-te-zr krrrr ' ' . u . tr- -: j r-e iff. - 1. I ' "- O f 1 l...v.--.'lH.fa .....I SEDBOOM - XB - r ' BEDROOM - - . iJYi W ' 'Z 'Z ' 0 II 13 MEEZEWAV &i&&SSrU 7) r , , . U- lUl-.oq "SPORT ,n3-tH N0- 3741 !.'-(C j. Aa 20" , l989 SQUARE FEET i V & - A A . Farm Credit Agency Sa i d D ra g g i n g Fee t In Time of Need In addition to having plenty of room for the family to stretch out in, this new home is refreshingly elegant-a style leader for years to come. A low pitch, rock covered gable roof compliments the imaginative and strikingly simple exterior design. A dec orative concrete block screen wall adds interest to the front but may be eliminated if de sired. On the, bedroom wing, colored plastic .panels are at tached to the vertical wood members which extend from the gable roof, past the alu minum windows and to the ground. An oversized-carport with storage closets is covered with a flat roof to give design con trast. In colder climates, this roof could be changed to a gable while a wall and garage door could. be placed at the front of the carport. A cov ered breezeway connects the carport to the service. A half-, bath off the service is conve nient to the outside of . the house and kitchen.. The oven, pantry, broom and water heat er closets are all on the same kitchen wall. The kitchen 'is open to the fa.nily room as there is a partial wall at the rear of the built-in range top. Large sliding glass doors in both the living and family rooms open onto the roofed patio. With the new types of glass available, these large glass areas can now be en joyed in the colder climates as well as in the warmer sec tions of the country. The covered porch opens to the center-hall entry which leads to all parts' of the home and hall space has been kept to a minimum. The living room is separated, -from the dining-ell by a long planter -with storage below. A wall could be located between these two rooms if more pri vacy is preferred. ;' All three bedrooms are ex ceptionally large and offer an unusual amount of wardrobe space. The dressing room, off the master bedroom, has wardrobes on all walls except where a dressing table has been located. A. feature of the master bath is .twin pullman lavatories. . Complete working- drawings of the above plan can be purchased at a cost of $7.50 for the first set and S5 for each additional set, when ordered at the same time. multi uses for WL1 bark a Multl-Bork is fir bark shredded and screened to proper size for a soil conditioner and mulch. Multi-Bark Soil Conditioner Multi-Bark increases water absorption and aeration. ,;- Multi-Bark improves heavy clay soils, giving a desirable crumbly structure, making it easy to spade, allowing water to enter much more rapidly, making it more favorable for seed germination and plant, growth. Multi-Bark provides organic matter for plants and micro organisms which inhabit the soil. " ,. Multi-Bark is high in cellulose and lignin which transform . into humus. Multi-Bark is beneficial for light sandy soil & granite soil. 8 Improves its ability to hold water. See KOGAP'S Multi-Bark . 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(Average Pickup $2.00 - Phone SP 3-6601 - Ext. 46 Our Goal Is Full Utilization of Timber Crop Washington - (UPD - A key House ., Democrat has charged the Farmers Home adminis tration with "dragging its feet" at a time when, hard pressed farmers have the greatest need for low-cost fed eral credit. Rep. Jamie L. Whitten (D Miss.), chairman of a House agriculture appro priations subcommittee, said 'It looks to me -like somebody is try ing to dry up" the farm credit agency. Whitten's remarks were made public in a transcript of closed - door hearings by his subcommittee into the budget needs of various agriculture department agencies. The Farmers Home adminis tration helps farmers finance homes, farm land purchases and farm operations. Its overall loan program budget for next fiscal year, starting July 1, calls for $203, 349.000, compared with a cur rent estimated spending level for this year of $251,435,000. Congress gave the agency $279,044,615 last fiscal year. The department's own state ments indicate that farm net income is at. the lowest level in 20 years, Whitten. said, while interest rates" are at about their highest level. Whitten said that this would indicate to him that the emer gency type of farm credit provided by the agency "would probably be looked to more than at any time pre viously." The agency is asking for $25,700,000 for its home loan program as against $42,900, 000 estimated spending this year. . Director Kenneth L. Scott of the Agricultural Credit Services explained the eligi bility requirements, liberal ized in 1958 "as an anti-recession " measure," had been tightened. , Whitten contend ed the program was not in tended "to pump-prime," but This plan will be available at these Drices until July 27. 1960. Please allow two weeks for delivery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your saisfaction. a new home, plan book, HOMES OF DISTINCTION,- may be purchased for SI. 00. Send all orders for either plans or books to: Hiawatha Estes, P.O. Box 404-T, Northridge, California. to provide farmers similar benefits provided by the Fed eral Housing Authority, for city dwellcs. : -v .Testimony showed the agency seeks $20,249,000 next year for farm owner ship loans, against 524,300,000 this year. Applications in this field have been dropping for the last two years, Scott said. The soil and water conser vation loans budget was. set at $3,000,000, compared to J.3, 485,000 this year, and the farm operating loans, largest item in the budget, at $154, 400,000, against $180,800,000 for the current year. Whitten reminded Scott that Congress provided $180, 800,000 last year, plus a $20 million contingency fund, de spite the fact that only $160 million was requested. Racial Origin May Be Told by Type ol Blood Washington - (Science Serv ice) - The blood type of a person living today might give a clue to his racial origin if compared with, blood type f the ancient dead. Paleoser ology has long sought to determine the blood types of ancient dead people in an attempt to establish whether the different . races have predominant blood type traits. Blood stains of mummifsd tissue and bones have been studied to determine blood types of these people who lived in past ages. This blood typing is based on the stan dard test and hag been made possible by the, discovery that the blood-group sbstace is not only in tbg blood but dis tributed throughout the body. To Relate Information Anthropologists trained in these blood typing techniques are now working in two labra tories in fifitn and two i the United States. They hope to relate their information the distribution of blood types in modern peoples. It has been found that type O blood is predominant among the people now living on the American continent, fftis is more generally true in South America. . However, ; the inci dence of type A incwases with the increasg in Igtgude in North Ameriw. The scien tists offer n explanation (ior this.- 0 - O ' The work as reported in the Journal Science- by Dr. Madeleine Smith of British Museum, London. 5 S Nixon One of 10 Best Dressed New York -(UPD- Vice Presi dent Richard ' M. Nixon has been named one of the 10 best dressed men in America by the Custom Tailors Guild of America. ... ' James Scali, chairman of the guild, said Nixon, who is eoolrinrf tint Pnnhliran nresi--T Oviu.iq . - I . dential nomination had come a long way sartorially since he arrived in Washington. "Mr. Nixon, who didn't know how to dress at all when he first arrived in Washing ton, is now a fashion plate," Scali said. The annual list of 10 best dressed men actually included 11 men, with two representing the business world - Earl Cohen, a Los Angeles invest ment 'broker, and Harry E. 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