

Nolan Applegate come* 18 miles to Casey 



principally to study vocational agriculture. 



He Is shown with seed he Is studying. He 



and his father have a Guernsey herd. 



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had not been applied." 



No book farmer is Walter Newlin. 

 Soon after his arrival in Casey, he 

 bought a sub-marginal farm and showed 

 his neighbors how it could be made to 

 pay by modern soil building practices. 



Surprising Thing Happened 

 The Casey Rotary club together with 

 the farmers sponsored the opening of 

 a limestone quarry in 1927 near Casey. 

 The attitude of the Rotary club in this 

 case can be largely explained by the 

 fact that the vocational agriculture in- 

 structor has been a regular member 

 of the Rotary club for the last 21 years. 



A new quarry near Casey was opened 

 in 1938, but both quarries have difficul- 

 ty supplying the present demand. How- 

 ever, it has been necessary to apply 

 potash, and phosphorus and other chem- 

 icals to the soil to supplement the 

 limestone. 



A number of fields around Casey 

 had excellent growths of red clover. 

 "This land would have been raising 

 only tickle grass and dog hair," said 

 Newlin when questioned as to what 

 might have been expected of such land 

 before the soil fertility program. 



The vocational agriculture depart- 

 ment also had a hand in pasture im- 

 provement. It sponsored evening 

 schools for farmers. Staff members 

 of the College of Agriculture led the 

 conferences. In the seven meetings 

 during the early winter of 1935, farm- 

 ers showed much interest. The aver- 

 age attendance per session was 140 

 farmers. Also, the vocational agricul- 

 ture department assisted farmers with 

 the inoculation of legumes, a practice 

 new to many farmers at that time. 



Livestock Projects . 



In the animal husbandry class the 

 boys learn to care for and feed hogs, 

 calves, and sheep. They learn to show 

 them in the various livestock shows, 

 knowing that in the show ring the calf 

 or pig will reflect the persistent care 

 he has had. They know that there is 

 a practical reason why their animal 

 wins or loses and that to duplicate or 

 improve their record next time they 

 will have to produce the goods. 



The value of such a program to the 

 pupils themselves is amply revealed in 

 the interest that the agriculture pupils 

 show in their work, together with the 



This building houses the vocational agriculture 

 department at Casey high school. With the twin 

 main building, the grounds are attractively land- 

 scaped. 



iver emphasizing the drawbaclcs of soil 

 deficiencies. Instructor Newlin shows stu- 

 dents Lee Cutright (left) and Dean Shute 

 with a soil test. 



impressive number of former students 

 who are now successful farmers, or 

 are serving as farm advisers and in 

 other responsible positions of farm 

 leadership. 



Students Clean Seed 



Another service very popular with 

 farmers was performed in a building 

 on the school grounds. There the vo- 

 cational agriculture boys would clean 

 seed free of charge to the fathers of 

 the boys taking agriculture. A slight 

 charge would be made to other farm- 

 ers. But at the time this seed cleaning 

 was started, that service, according to 

 Newlin, could not be obtained else- 

 where. 



Eugene Schiver, one of the high 

 school vocational agriculture students, 

 had seven acres of Lincoln b^ans that 

 made 26 bushels to the acre last year. 

 He plans to sell them at $3 per bushel 

 for seed. These beans plus some hogs 

 on the farm at home constitute Eugene's 

 vocational agriculture projects required 

 under the Smith-Hughes program. He 

 said, "I like vocational agriculture best," 

 when asked which high school subject 

 he preferred, and added, "I intend to 



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In school farm repair shop og students loam techniques whkh will In school seed house students clean Eugone Schlver's beans which 

 Hiom time and money in later years. he plans to sell for $3 a bushel. 



MAY. 1946 



