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Vo-Ag Accomplishments

At Carver High School

The. annual Vo-Ag report of Carver Regional High School reveals that the boys enrolled have made exemplary gains in their project work for the school year 1949-50. The boys completed 68 enterprises and 54 improvement projects and supplementary farm jobs.

The enterprises consisted of fat pigs, brood sows, gilts, dairy calves, dairy cows, beef heifers, baby beeves, feeder steers, laying hens, pullets, baby chicks, gardens, corn, oats, orchard, wheat, and forestry. Brood sows lead all other enterprises in amount of income earned.

Rasley Gibbs produced the largest fat pig in the class which weighed 855 pounds. Albania Hayden’s sow farrowed and raised 12 pigs. The three highest corn yields per acre were made by Harold Arrington, 74 bushels; Linwood Carpenter, 73 bushels; and Daniel' Minor, 72 bushels. The average corn yield per acre for the boys was 61 bushels. William Grigsby, Treasure Arrington and Roscoe Ford received the largest net in-* comes, $316.00, $269.00, and $261.00 vespectively. Leroy Dade and William Phillips produced the largest vealers, 262 pounds and 250 pounds respectively.

A total of $5268.43 net profit was earned by the boys and money actually received from enterprises amounted to $2160.48. -

• A CapeHu Choir

At Carver High School

The Agricultural Department of Carver Regional High School it presenting the A Capella Choir of •■Virginia State*-College in- eoneart at the high school auditorium on Sunday atternoon, March 18, at 8:00 p.m.

The Virginia State College A Capella Choir was organized in 1933 by the late J. Harold Montague. It is presently conducted by Robert A. Henry. Composed of sixty voices which are carefully! selected and -skillfully trained in four-part singing, the A Capella Choir is a strong cultural force in t the college as well as an instrumentality for the spreading of goodwill throughout the commu. :' nity and State. Called frequently* to appear on programs for both’ races throughout the State, the choir carries the influence of the r * colljege to communities fa$r re* moved from its doors.

The repertoire of the A Capella Choir is Varied and appealing. Traditional and arranged spirituals of tbe American Negro a**

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