Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-07

With the Imperial county fair
scheduled to open next Saturday,
March 8, the various departments at
Central at least those doing the type
of work from which samples can be
exhibited, are busily preparing dis
plays, which show the details of the
work done in the class rooms.
Probably the largest display will
be that entered by the Future Far
mers from the agricultural classes.
Designed to encourage the use OF
"Calapproved" seed in order to pro-
duce larger and better crops, their
feature exhibit will be centered
around an exhibition telling details
of the work that has been done by
Harland Daley during the past two
years. About two years ago, Daley
secured five pounds of approved
double dwarf milo seed from the
University of California experiment
tai station at Meloland. From that
five pounds of seed he grew an acre
of milo, the seed of which met all
the requirements of the seed COM
mittee of the Imperial Valley Farm
bureau and University of California
at Berkeley.
BY meeting these strict require
ments, Daley was privileged to sell
his seed with the "Calapproved"
seed label attached, sign that the
purity and quality of this seed in
sured its being OF the very best and
assured the buyer that his crop
grown from this seed would be un-
usually large. So successfully has
Daley continued his work and dis
tributed his seed that last year rs
per cent of the "Calapproved" seed
in California was grown with the
use of his seed. This serves as an
excellent example of community
Improvement project of the type
that is being carried out by Future
Farmers in numerous counties in
California and in other states.
The blackboard OF this feature ex-
hibit viii show to what extent Dali
ley's corn exceeded the minimum
requirements of "Calapproved" seed
as established by the state depart
ment of agriculture and the state
university. Edythe Modah and Lu-
cille Nice, two high school students,
are doing the art work required for
the exhibit. Mrs. Thelma T. Ray,
head of the art department, is sup
elvising the work.
Plan Judging Contests
On the floor of the space allotted
for this exhibit will be shown 200
white leghorn chicks, which will be
brooded under an electric brooder
built for the agriculture classes by
the boys in the high school shop.
Besides this exhibition there will
also be livestock and poultry ex-
hibits, for which many of the STU
dents enrolled in the agriculture
classes have for some time been pre-
pairing their livestock and poultry.
During the fair there will be con-
tests for agricultural judging; one
in the judging of dairy cattle; ano-
ther in the judging of livestock,
which will include judging of beef
sheep, horses and hogs, and still
another in the judging of poultry.
In each contest there are two di-
visions, the A and B. The object OF
J the B contest is to enable boys to
have had less training il judging to
compete in their own class. The con-
test is limited to boys who have
completed less than year in ag-
riculture and therefore have only
a superficial training in compari-
son with those who have had two
or three years of such training.
All judging teams in Southern
California are allowed to compete
Advance registrations and reserva-
tions sent to Paul T.. Thornton, ad-
wiser for Central's chapter of the