New Mexico extension news, Volume 19, Number 9

              ijfew Mexico Extension News
    g&BlffSHED   BY  THE  EXTENSION  SERVICE, NEW MEXICO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
STATE COLLEGE, NEW MEXICO, SEPTEMBER, 1939
4-H State Camp
Most Successful
Assemblies,    Group    Discussions,
Talks  and  Recreation  Fill
Each  Day's Program
After four days crammed with
purposeful activity, the 239 club
members, local leaders, and agents
who made up the guest list at the
20th Annual Encampment ©ii-Njew
Mexico 4-H Clubs were officially
dismissed by Assistant Director
Ia.StrHUdweJ_i.-in El Paso, Texas,
,u: Boon on September i:. Final
encampment activities were concluded on feat day with an inspection trip to Fort Bliss, home
of Uncle Sam's First Cavalry
Division, where the club visitors;
Were shown how the army's men
and horses are cared for and
how horse and motorized cavalry
aria field artiUefy function in the
field.
The camp was opened at State
College on Monday, August 28,
with registration, carried on from
4:00 to 7:00 p. m. At an evening
assembly on that same day, delegates were greeted by President
Hugh 'J&-. Milton of New Mexico
State CoUege, and were welcomed
by Club Specialist G. R. Hatch.
The response for club members
was given by John Berry, Colfax
County. In a speech entitled
"Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in 4-H Club Work," AssisW
Director Hildwein urged the assembled delegates to strive for
yet higher attainments.
For the next three days, delegates' mornings were occupied
with assembly programs, conferences, and demonstrations; their
afternoons were taken up with
more assemblies, tours, and recreational activities; their evenings were devoted to games, a
chuck wagon supper and musical
program, and a final evening assembly.
Speakers heard at assembly
programs included Frank E.
Wimberly, State Supervisor of
Vocational Agriculture, who
spoke on "Choosing a Vocation";
DjeArrnan !HarrWn PhyUis Marshall? Mancel, Mortenson, and
Vivian Hadley, Club delegates to
the National 4-H Club Encampment in Washington, D. C, in
Jpne, who described the trip and
encampment; County Agent
Leader A., B. Fite, who, on different occasions, spoke on "The
Value of a National Camp," "New
Mexico State, College Campus",
and "Coriipletions"; Sociology
Professor Siguard Johansen, New
Mexico State CoUege, who spoke
on "Problems, of Rural Youth";
and, at the final session Ralph
Charles, Bureau of Agricultural
EconomicsAgent, who told of 4-H
Club work in Otero .Cowntyiiin
1944,, and Lynn Cobble, who explained fee work irt. E ddy Coun ty
STATE 4-H CLUB CAMP
Club members, Leaders and Agents make the four H's
berry Field at State College.
in  1939.
At the Wednesday afternoon
business meeting, a completion
goal of 81.4 per cent for all farm,
ranch, and home projects for
1939 was set. The goal was determined upon only after the delegates had thoroughly discussed
all factors which influence both
high and low completion percent-
ages.
During the last assembly, held
Thursday evening in Hadley Hall,
announcements.yyere made of the
v^jnfjea^'-Q the State Dress Revue
anel'dar^-'" defrionstration contest.
Laurene Nelson, of RosweU,
Chaves County, won the dress
championship with her wool suit
and was awarded a trip to the
National 4-H Club Congress, to
be held in Chicago in December.
Cttherjwinners were Helen Johnson, Eddy County, first in the
wool dress class; Katherine Foster, Luna County; first in the
afternoon dress class; and Naola
Burkhalter, Torrance County,
first in the cotton dress class.
Since competition was so close
between Laurene Nelson, finally
adjudged winner of the contest,
and Helen Johnson, Miss John-
SC^ri, tos presented with a handsome luggage set donated by fee
J. C. Penney Company.
.■^Rte'^YBining team in fee dairy
demonstration contest was that of
Torrance,,County,-composed of
Lee Snowden and L. D. George,
both of Moriarty. James Gilstrop
of Springer and Jack Connelley
of Raton were members of the
ColfaXiCounty team which won
second place. Third place was
won by the team, from Curry
County, consisting of Donald Miller and Preston Martin, both of
Texico. AU three teams were
awarded'-medals for their plac-
ings. The Winning Torrance
County team will represent New
Mexico 4-H Clubs in" fee National
Dairy Show to be held -In :San
Francisco the last week in October. They will be accompanied
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WINNING   DAIRY   TEAM
."^"e."fields covered in 4-H club
work are varied. One of the
objectives is to stimulate the
members to acquire information, skill and understanding in
their particular projects and to
dfenonstrate what,; -fhey have
learned-'TO- otngrs. A good exam-"
pie of this was the recent dairy
demonstration contest in which 32
boys in eight counties competed
for the privilege of representing
fegr_^unty at a state contest.
It is needless to say that fee
conrpeiaffon was keen since fee
winning state team will receive a
free trip to the National Dairy
Show' to be held in connection
with the World's Fair in San
Fr_ncfeTco'ih Ofctober. The donor
of this prize is' the Kraft-Phenix
Cheese Corporation. -r '
In the state contest which was
held at the recent State Encampment, the coveted trip was won
by L. D. George and Lee Snowden from Torrance County. They
demonstrated the "Importance of
the Trench SUo and Methods of
Construction and Filling." i
AU of fee teams in -fee state
contest put on very creditable
demdBStrations. So keen was the
competition that only a few points
separated Colfax County from fee
top team, and Curry County from
second place.
The Torrance County Team put
on a very interesting as well as
instructive demonstration. They
showed every step in filling a
silo from hauling the feed
from fee field to the stiage cutter to transporting the finished
prtSfluct to the feed lot.
Wher
this
takes
^its
demonstration to'Treasure Island
ing^«ri/0k-fee winners from fee
ofeeST'-western-Btates. The prize
they will be working for this time
is a $250 college scholarship for
each member of the winning team
.  (Continued ori Page Four)
Conference Tour
Includes New Mex.
Officials  of  State  Agencies  and
Department of Agriculture
Discuss Land Use.
The traveling LamMIse tjjpn-
ference-Tour of the ; NtJrfeern
and Southern 'Great' .Plains went
through New MCJHcb-'during fee
six days: from August :2ft thru
September 3,„ These tayelmg
conferences Wer^JfopprispIr^ hy
Under Secretary JYj...j_.ivytisftn ffff
the purpose of affording an op1-
portfuntty to ffepartmerrTof Agriculture and Lamr~Grant College
people to discuss the. principles
and problems of agricultural' land-
use planning in fee United States.
Instead of having the Department
and State people from a large
group of. States meet for a two
or three day conference in some
city, the Administrative heads of
several of tiiea Department "Bureaus joined State and. college
representatives for traveling conferences of approximately a week
each, during which- the party
travelled by automobile ( over
some of -the more important ■probi-
~lemrareas' in a large number of
States, and saw in the field some
of: fee'work which is being done
by fee Extension Service, Experiment. .Station, Forest Service,
Farm. 'Security Administration,
Soil Conservation Service, Rural
Electrification Administration,
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and other agencies, to
meet these problems.
The first of these conferences
was held in New York and fee
New England States during the
first eight days in July. The
second was on fee Pacific Coast
during fee latter part of July, and
the third and fourth for the
Great Plains States, beginning in
the: Northern Great Plains at
Malta, Montana, Jn August 2a
The Southern Plains trip started
at Fort Collins Colorado, and
proceeded thru eastern Colorado,
southeastern Kansas, the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle, into
northern New Mexico, then thru
the State to Flagstaff, Arizona.
AU persons connected with fee
tour spent the night of August
29 in Clovis, proceeding the following-day thru Curry and Quay
counties, making several stops
enroute. . Several short discussions were made at these stops,
some of which were: Farm Security, Administration land tenure
problems; diversified farming in
eastern New Mexico; soil conservation practices, such as leaving
of;, wheat stubble, strip cropping,
contour': farming, terracing, re-
vegetation,: and water spreading
demonstrations.! Leaving Quay
County, .the tour proceeded by
way of S.anta Rosa, and Dilia,
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