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The Agricultural Department of the George Washington Carver Regional High School sponsored Hhe Fourth Annual Banquet of the adult farmers •class of Madison County on Friday night, March 20, at die Municipal Building in Madison. The banquet 'was attended by over 200 persons, which'proves to have been by far the most successful banquet ttutt we have Bad.
Mr. C. B. Jeter, Area Supervisor «of Vocational Agriculture in Virginia, was guest speaker.’He spoke on the topic, “T^ie Need And Importance of Adult Farmer Classes.” He stressed the importance of farmers working -cooperatively in order to keep pace with the modem merchandized systems of farming.
In all of the areas of instruction of this class, emphasis has been strongly placed on farming in a progresive way. Out of this the class has adopted the name of the Progresive Farmers Club. To follow through with the adopted name, a new attraction was added tothe banquet this year. An application was drawn up covering the vocational, social, civic, recreational, and religious activities of the entire family. This application was based strictly on the progress that the family had made in the past year. The seventeen (17) areas constituted 1,150 points. These applications were filled out on the entire family basis and judged by Messrs. C. L. Conyers, Vocational Agricultural Instructor in Louisa; Lester Stevens, Assistant Agriculture Instructor in Warrenton; and A. C. Washington, Assistant Agriculture Instructor at Carver. The Judges decisions were as
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