Marion progress., 1948-12-16

All Boys Achievement
There are 13 All clubs in Nc
DowelL county and the total enroll
ment for the boys for 1948 was 300.
Most of these boys carried and COM
pleted an outstanding All club
project. Many of them carried two
or more projects with good results.
Thirty eight of these boys carried
one acre of hybrid corn for their
project and set new record for the
production of corn. These 38 bows
produced a total of 3,6O4.53 bushels
of corn, this is an average of 95
bushels per acre. The Marion Rotary
club generously donated the seed
corn for these projects, and awarded
cash prizes to the three boys making
the highest yields On Friday night,
December 10, 1948, the Rotary club
gave Arnold Baker $25.00 for
making the highest yield in the
county; Lynn Christy 7 e V e d
$1,000 for making the second high
est yield, and Robert Brinkley re-
ceived $1,000 for making the third
highest yield.
Thirty three All club boys took
purezred dairy calf for their pro-
ject and completed records on the
same. These calf club boys made
considerable progress during the
year and put into practice good feed
ing, breeding and management. All
Of these boys showed their calves
at the second annual Junior Dairy
Calf show which was held in Marion
the 25th day of September. Nine
of these boys received blue ribbons;
IA received red ribbons and 10 re-
ceived white ribbons. The civic clubs
of Marion and the Marion Merchants
association sponsored this show and
gave $500 for each blue ribbon,
$500 for each red ribbon and $1.00
for each white ribbon. Harold Nc
Culloch received the honor and ad-
dition $500 for displaying the best.
showmanship in the show. Bobby
Eplee received second place in show
manship and a cash prize of $500,
Bill Finley received the honor and
cash prize for $500 for having the
best fitted calf in the show. Douglas
Foxx received second place in best
fitted calf and a cash prize of $500.
Then all of the Calf club boys took
their heifer calves to Asheville and
entered their calves into the West
ern North Carolina Junior Dairy
Calf show. These boys received two
blue ribbons, eight red ribbons and
two white ribbons in the Asheville
show and their total cash prizes
amounted to $108.0O.
A new All club Pig Chain was
started in the Dysartsville All club
n November. Eight boys received
ourebred Poland China gifts and one
BOY received purebred Poland
China male pig. S Sears, Roebuck
is sponsoring this pig chain.
Other All club boys completed
projects in gardening, fore try,
poultry, home Identification, and
the like.
1948 was quite an eventful year,
- - ho q
better one.
All Girls Achievement
Forty-eight girls completed cam
ming projects;
Eighty-two girls completed food
preparation projects;
Seventy-nine girls completed
clothing projects;
Fifteen girls completed room i'm
provement projects.
This makes a total of 224 projects
by the All girls.
They canned / ,687 quarts of fruits
and vegetables. Girls made 81 ar
ticles for their rooms, besides re-
and painting. They made
1919 garments and made over SO
garments.
Three thousand eight hundred
meals were planned and 7,945 pre-
pared.
Betty Conley, who won the $25
bond for most outstanding work
was in the North Cove All club for
AZ years. During that time she
was a county winner eight times,
winning three dress contest pins,
one food preparation contest, one
county team dairy foods demonstra-
ton and one county individual
dairy foods demonstration. She also
won in one Better Methods Electric
contest, and one frozen foods con-
test.
Betty is now a freshman at Wom-
ans college in Greensboro.
Marilyn Brinkley, also from the
North Cove All club has been the
girl in the canning
contest. She has canned during the
,,,s+ x,oor I O9O nuarts of frl1its and