Plainview Rover High School - Panther Yearbook (Plainview, AR)

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I Above: School Tractor-Now Available to Farmers Interested in the Improve- ment of Pasture and Meadow Lands wood, and the Plainview-Rover Community School Program was definitely launched. This conference was followed by a promise of a Grant-in-aid from the General Education Board. The beginning of the extra-curricular ac- tivities of the school was the community can- ning kitchen. This unit was built in cooper- ation with the OSYA. This modern 30x60 Cannery was built in 1945. It has two lines of tables, a steam boiler and modern cooking and canning equipment. One of the purposes of a community school is to improve actual living standards through teaching and services. The canning plant offered both but did not fully meet the needs of the District in the field of food conservation. Cured meats were still butcher- ed in the fall after uneconomical feeding of a number of animals sufficient for the year's meat supply. These animals were fed up in a relatively short time at an ever increas- ing expense. The school administration and community leaders helped solve this problem by constructing a 100 box frozen food locker plant, complete with a slaughtering pen and butchering house. The locker is furnished with a power meat saw, knife, and grinder. Lard is rendered in steam jacketed kettles in the cannery. During the summer of 1946 corn meal became unobtainable. The school met this situation by providing a modern set of mill- stones with power. From home grown corn, meal became available to this and adjoining communities. High prices of farm feeds and the scar- city of such led the school management to the conclusion that the school should lead the way in the production of feeds. Therefore the school installed a high capacity feed mill with cutting knives and hammer and powered by a new 39 H.P. engine. g The thinking of the best informed men is that rural arears in this section of Arkansas

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should devote much more effort to pasture building and to good legume hay production. This is essential to increased and improxul livestock and dairy production. But there is one obstacle to progressive action . . . fo The job in this area is sodding grass plow'- ing out tmdergrowth and uprooting broom- sage. A school owned community used farm tractor witl1 plows and disc seemed the we- hirle to progress along this line. Such equip- ment is now owned by the school and is available to farmers in the district on a rental basis. A tractor powered terracing plow is also available for soil and water conservation on the farms. As a community service to encourage the production of a better grade of livestock in the district the school has provided the fol- lowing breeding males: purebred OIC boars Ei: Hereford and Angus bulls and a four star ersey bull. Along with other activities thc school has begun farm projects to serve as teaching aids demonstrations in production and profit to the school. The school owns six highly bred Hereford heifers four ol them with calf by side at this timt. Thesc calves will be offered to patrons of the district as breeding animals. These heifers were purchased at the State Hereford Show and were classed among the top ten ani- mals shown that year. In order to demonstrate to the commun- ity that the school believes in its own teach- ings regarding better pastures and improved hays, the school purchased a forty-four acre pasture. The pasture is on land typical of this are and is being improved by a long range pasture improvement project. Underbrush M1 1 4. i I , I . HN . . . , H ' ' power equipment with which to do the Job! , , , . ' 1 7 , , , Below: T XVI om rite and Bill Bob Hlhitten, Below: ford , School's Prize Hereford Bull, Student Trainers, with Calves from School's Leads Plainview-Rover's Section of Parade Registered Hereford Herd. at County Fair. r