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Show 1 1 10 Utah BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, A Look Thursday, February 22, 1973 at the PfOgram Box Elder Chapter Notes National FFA Week The Box Elder High school chapter of Future of America is joining others across Utah and the nation in observing National FFA Week, Feb. The local unit is the second largest in Utah with neighboring Bear River Highs chapter holding first place. The stories and photographs on this page, provided by FFA members, are intended to acquaint readers with the program, its activities and achievements by the members. Farmers Two Doys 17-2- 4. In BE Attend LV Two members of Box Elder FFA chapter went to Las Vegas last week to attend the national Soil Chapter convention. The members were Brian Hardy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Hardy of Corinne, and Brent Baugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max " Baugh of Harper. cosoli met They nservationist To become a state farmer takes a lot of work and con- farming and agriculture for three years or more. Some of the qualifications needed to become a state farmer are as follows: you must have three years in agriculture fields, three years of which are vocational agriculture and one year of agriculture mechanics. You must have $500 invested and beefs, from throughout America to in projects that you have worked on and must have records of all projects. You must also have been a chapter farmer for one year. This year at Box Elder we have five members who have qualified for state farmers: Fred Barker, Marlon Bingham, Craig Gardner, Rockie Walker, and Curtis Hatch. Fred Barker is from Willard and has actively been engaged in taking care of fruits, raising BY JAN CHRISTENSEN on Districts Conservation State Farmer: Five Qualify centration r.lcct dairy for his projects. He is president of the I FFA chapter. Craig Gardner has registered holstein cows and bull calves and has been on the judging teams for the chapter. Craig is discuss soil problems of the nation. Last year our chapter won the Gold Emblem award on Building our America Communities. This trip should help our chapter on new Ideas for achieving this goal again. Four Seek SCHOOL GREENHOUSE Kelly Tincher waters plants in the greenhouse at Box Elder High school. The faci- - lity helps in broadening class offerings at the school, ; . Awards , also sentinel for the FFA in chapter and resides Honeyville. Marlon Bingham has worked hard with his sheep and beef projects and has exhibited them at local fairs and judging contest. He is from Honeyville of the FFA and is chapter. Roger Burt ELECTED was elected president the Box Elder Young ers chapter. of Farm- Each year, the FFA gives proficiency awards to members who have excelled in particular fields of agriculture. These awards are given on chapter, state, and national levels. Awards are given in these fields: placement in processing, outdoor recreation, placement A new class that is receiving a lot of interest lately is called in Rockie Walker has milking cows, calves, and beef steers. He has exhibited these animals at county and state fairs and contests and is now serving as reporter for the chapter and reside 'In Honeyville. taught by Mr. Hortin of the agriculture department. Even with all the snow outside you can step into the greenhouse and plants will be growing abundantly. Floriculture crops grown this Curtis Hatch is from Corinne and is treasurer of the chapter. He has exhibited hogs at the county fairs and will have more hogs again for this year. geranimuns, petunias, bedding plants and many other varieties. Students like to get their fingers in the soil to see if they can get a green thumb! year include: mums, poin-settia- sales s, USEFUL IN FFA This is an outside view of the greenhouse at Box Elder High school which has become a useful tool for teaching ornamental horticulture and greenhouse BY KEVIN NEBEKER seniors; This year our chapter held its annual chapter parlimentary procedure contest. There were four teams participating one team representing each grade level. These four teams were the result of many weeks of out-goin- practice among and the competition individual classrooms. On Jan. 24,. the four teams met before the chapter to compete against each other. The judges were: Sam Gordon, Dee Forrest; and Dee Hortin. The results were: first place juniors; second place third place Brent Baugh (chairman) (secretary), Doug Hunsaker, Brian Hardy, and Ronald Hendrickson (members), go to Sky View on March 7 to compete in the area contest. Parlimentary procedure is used in meetings to avoid confusion and enable the participants to get their business taken care of in a speedy and orderly fashion. The members are required to think clearly, think fast, use good English, and use logic in their discussions. or service, in or- soil, water, and air management, fish and wildlife management, and crop production. ' Some members working for these awards are Rockie Walker, dairy; Craig Gardner, dairy; Fred Barker, crops; Kelvin Bodily, ornamental horticulture and Brian Hardy, Winners Named In Public Speaking FFA Program BY BRENT WYATT On In 196S Box Elder High school acquired five acres of land for a exschool educational perimental farm. The farm is located west of the school grounds. It has pasture and evergreen trees and other experimental plants. The farm enables members of the FFA to learn skills such as spraying for insects, pruning and cultivation of plants and trees. It is also the location of our yearly soil judging contest. At the present time the FFA has a sheep project where members who live off the farm can feed and care for a ewe lamb during the year. These members learn to care for the sheep and how to trim and show the sheep at livestock shows throughout the year. Members helping caring for the sheep are Brian Hore, Terry Hansen and Evan Saunders. The farm has a shed for the sheep and a building for storing tools and supplies needed at the farm. The FFA feels fortunate to have such a fine farm near the school. The Box Elder held its annual public Jan.-.2- chapter sophomores, and fourth place freshman. From here the first-plac- e team, consisting of Matt Swan - management. BY KELVIN BODILY Roger Burt of West Corinne was elected to head the Box Elder Young Farmers chapter at the annual meeting held at the Golden Spike cafe. g The president, Ken Harper, conducted the event. Among those in attendance were Debbie Hatch, chapter FFA Sweetheart, and Newell Norman. Following a meal the group was entertained by David Eskelson and Lilly Pace, who sang and played guitars. Door prizes were then passed out, compliments of a local farm donor. and namental horticulture, FFA JEPPESEN production, improvement, placement Farm Aids ParlimenflGry agricultural poultry production, livestock production, dairy production, forest management, home ornamental horticulture and green house management, Juniors Win Young Farmers BY BRAD NORMAN BY KELVIN BODILY Annual Contest To Elcad BY KENT Receives Interest 4, speaking contest. Every boy in the FFA had previously given a speech in his Agriculture class, and the winner competed with the winners from the other classes. The winners from all the classes were: Fred Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Barker, Willard; Terry Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hansen, Brigham City; Frank May, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Franklin May, Honeyville; Danny Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall, Mantua; Jim Webster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Webster, Harper; David Yates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Yates, Harper Ward. The overall purpose of the public speaking is to develop personal leadership, poise, and ability to speak in public. The winner of the contest was David Yates. Judges were Dee Hardy, dairy farmer, Corinne; Lee Charlson, dairy farmer Brigham City; A1 Flemming, English teacher, Box Elder High. Exhibits Show FFA Projects Farm Safety BY KEVIN GERHARDT Stressed In Each year Box Elder FFA chapter prepares exhibits to show at various fairs and livestock shows in Utah. Chapter These exhibits give our members as well as our chapter good recognition, and it demonstrates to people what we BY BRENT WYATT Farm safety is one of the many different things that we do in our chapter. , are accomplishing in the production of crops and livestock. We as members and chapter officers go out to the different The members take exhibits to many fairs and livestock shows, such as the State fair, held during the second week of September, the county fair, held the last of August, the Spanish Fork Livestock show, held in May, and Golden Spike Livestock show in November. farms and look at the surroundings to look for hazards like bad wiring and machinery. When we find them farmer and then we try to help him correct the hazards. we tell the We have slow moving vehicle signs that we sell in our chapter that farmers or other Some of our major exhibitors are Fred Barker, President of our chapter; Marlon Bingham, Craig Gardner, Monte sentinal; Munns, secretary; Ben Ferry and Matt people who have show vehicles can put up to warn the people that you are going slow. In order to earn Emblem award you have to sponsor a farm safety program. the Gold t; WINNING TEAM - Winningfromthe annualBrent FFA parlimentary procedure contest was this left, Baugh, Harper; Brain Hardy, Corinne; Matt junior team comprised of, Swan, Harper; Doug Hunsaker, Honeyville, and Rod Hendrickson, Bear River City. Swan. We are forward to prize winning looking many more exhibits. HAND FOR WINNER David Yates, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Yates, Harper Ward, is congratulated after winning public speaking contest by Terry Hansen who placed second. |