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

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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

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- , .4...-1.1.4 ti M... ' Above: Laying House and Flock of Leghorn Hens is being cleared, winter grass seeded, and lime and phosphate are being added. All adapted clovers have been seeded. In due time soil and water conservation practices will be insti- tuted. Goodfences have been erected and beef cattle feeding barns built. School owned cattle are kept on this pasture. The school has seeded twenty-five acres of lespedeza on rented meadow land. Broom- sage was disced up and the land properly prepared before the lespedeza was seeded. At the proper time acid phosphate will be added. A flock of 150 Leghorn hens housed in a modern laying house, enclosed in a proper poultry yard, and fed largely from waste, is kept in the school grounds. This flock is cared for by seventh and eighth grade stu- dents. Eggs and culled hens produced by this project find ready takers in the school cafe- teria. A pen of feeder pigs is kept at the school plant to consume waste from the school cafe- teria, canning plant, butcher pen, and locker plant. These pigs wind up in the lunches served in the cafeteria. The school cafeteria serves more than 225 meals per day. These meals are varied, whole- some and appetizing and are served at a cost of 10c per meal. It is possible to serve these meals because of the high-protein foods pro- duced by the school's own projects. During this school year a modern dishwasher and Sterilizer have been installed in the kitchen. Butane gas is used in cooking and heating. During the summer of 1945 four washing machines were purchased by the district and installed in a section of the cannery building. A laundry supervisor is employed by the dis-