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Show Adult Farming Classes to Be Held at PGHS At a recent meeting of the Advisory Ad-visory Council of the P.G.H.S. Agricultural Ag-ricultural Department, a decision was reached to provide class instruction in-struction for the adult farming population of Alpine District. The classes will be taught by specialists special-ists in the varoius related fields, according to Willis M. Banks local agriculture instructor. In order to comply with the adult education regulation, specific classes will be given in which 10 or more students register and remain re-main in regular attendance, Mr. Banks explained. The subject matter mat-ter will be determined by the needs of the farm folks of the local area. Classes have been suggested in the following fields: 1 Feeding of dairy cattle, beef cattle or swine in the new day agriculture ag-riculture methods. 2 Kee-ping accurate farm records re-cords and accounts. 3 Farm construction with block and masonry materials. 4 Farm business management. 5 Farm and home beautifica-tion. beautifica-tion. 6 Farm motors, tractors and their operation and maintenance. 7 Farm machinery construction and repairs. 8 Farm welding. If ten or more local residents are interested in farm welding, a class will begin Wednesday, Nbiv-ember Nbiv-ember 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the P. G. H. S. Agriculture Shop building. This class will include instruction In Fundamental of Electric Welding, Weld-ing, Oxy-Acetylene Cutting and Welding, Brazing and Hardsurfac- ing. Those interested in the above class may contact Advisory Council Coun-cil members Paul Christofferson, Paul Blackhurst, Floyd Bezzant, John Y. Swenson, Merrill N. War-nick War-nick or call the High Schcol before the November 20 class opening date. Local farm residents may express ex-press their interest in other of the suggested classes by contacting contact-ing any of the above named Advisory Advis-ory Council members. |