Cal State Polytechnic College - El Rodeo Yearbook (San Luis Obispo, CA)

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Production Crops Club We never will forget that assembly which the ‘croppers’ put on for the student body and which featured the Barnsmell boys vs. Pansvpickers in re- gard to table manners. The assembly was a practical illustration of a talk on Emily Post at a preceding meeting. Three parties were held at Advisor Dougherty's house. Mr. Doughertys daughter plays the piano . . . the guests play poker . .. and sometimes sing. The Pre Poly Royal dance was under the auspices of the ‘croppers who wove crepe paper into a false ceiling which draped from a suspended center piece. At the Royal itself, they sponsored the sack sewing contest as well as the agro nomv exhibit and contest. (Agronomy is the naming of plants, weeds, grasses, etc. exclusive of shrubs, trees, etc.). No rubber for a trip this year. ELWOOD RANDOLPH Crops Clul Proxy OFFICERS President ......Elwood Randolph Vice President .... David Risling Secretary ......... Dwight Wait t reasurer ..... Richard Romans Reporter ....... Maurice Dubost Pirst row (left to right): Barnes, Barger, Carlev, Crane. Day, Downing, Dubost, Fisher, Flamson, Garbani. Second row: Gilstrap, 1 lelfend, I loff, Lady, Matsoniato, McClymonds, McCorkle, Newman, Newton, Ott. Mr. Dougherty. Third row- Randolph. Risling. Romans, Schwab, Seaton, Shaw. Smith. Underwood, Wait, Warden, Wilson.

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I I I I PAUL DOUGHERTY talks rapidly . . . all his lectures are extempor- aneous . . . only instructor in department . . . tells jokes often, some go over . . . owns own ranch . . . he dishes out mimeographed assign- ments frequently .... compliments students when he receives letters from Ag. colleges stating that Polvites have exhausted Ag bulletin supply. i The crop men are always planting experimental range plots with seed im- ported from all parts of the U. S. and from foreign countries. One of the big- gest tasks is planting cover crops lor the school’s orchards. They also plant a truck garden and watch the crops grow. All terracing, checking, and irrigation is done by students. I he school rents from the Union Oil Co. territory near the air port and projects arc subleased to the students. Then the fellows rent equipment from the department, they hire their own labor, and sell their product . . . usually hay. The meat animals department usually buys crops grown ... the growers pocket the profit. Only one project has been undertaken this year, and by three department ma- jors . . . they pocketed a pocketful. In the Spring, when crops head out. employed majors run the harvesters all dav and chug all night until the job is through. They work hard, get scratchy arms and backs which ache twice as much, and yet obtain that satisfaction of living with the rain, the wind, the sun, the waving fields of grain, and, in the end. are the only guys who are really “down to earth.” Toy: crops student gets experience pruning a deciduous tree in the San Luis orchard. Fruit production is one of the fortes of San Dimas, hut every crops man gets a sample of this work at San Luis. Below: making hay while the sun shines brought financial re- turns to these fellows who rented land, school equipment, raised, and harvested the crop as a project.

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Ornamental WILBUR B. HOWES not yet a member of the bicycle brigade . . . but his auto tires are on the ’ verge . . . he can do anything in half the time . . . fiend lor candy which he buys in half dozen bars at a time and stores them in room nine . . . scares the freshmen still, but they catch on . . . he never drinks water. The horticulturists, of which only eleven ended the Spring quarter, help make the campus more beautiful. They grow all annuals and shrubs that sur- round the buildings and tackled the job of ’’planting' the new building. Degree students take first two years at San Dimas and if they are fortunate thev finish work at the San Luis cam- pus during the Iollowing two years . . . Positions are assured as teachers, nursery- men, and landscapers for civic institu- tions and residences. Although no advertising is done, the visitors who inspect the green house and “petunia” beds buy a good jxjrcent- age of the cuttings and potted plants. T he horts get 60 percent of profits . . . the state 40 percent . . . soil and water and hoes arc furnished by the depart- ment. Besides their regular studies students have charge of and lab work, horticulture beautifying the campus—a job which they have ac complished exceedingly well and with little thanks. They have put in and take care of 13V6 acres of lawn, put in all shrubbery on the grounds, and arc now help- ing to landscape the areas around the new dorms and new administration build- ing.