REPORT OF

THIRD ANNUAL MEmING OF

AuBUBN AIABAMA JULY 14-16 1932

The Executive Committee of the Alabama F F A Association met a t Auburn on July 14 at 8 00 P M There was a full attendance of the committee Those present were Bill Mason President Byron Cowart Vice-President Sam Price Jones Secretary Earnest Thornhill Treasurer and W F OWens Reporter

The following items of business were considered and passed upon by the committee

1 Seventeen applicat ions for State Farmer degree were reviewed It was agreed that fourteen of t hese applications be recomnended to the Rouse of Delegates f or acceptance Three were r ejected because t hey did not meet the r equirements of the Oonstitut i on as to crops carried as projects and t he amount deposited in bank or productive~ i nVested

2 It was ~eed to recommend to t he House of Delegates t hat the honorary degree of State Farmer be conferred on the following

A F Barman tate Superintendent of Education p C Bro~ Ass i stant Supervisor of Agricultural Educat ion J C Cannon Assistant Supervisor of Agricultura l Education Earle Thomas Teacher of Vocational Agriculture Isabella J R Formby Teacher of Vocational Agriculture Holt ville J Y McReynolds Teacher ot Vocat ional Agriculture E ergreen

3 It was moved and seconded that tbe Presi dent with the advice of t he State Adviser and the agricu1tura~ supervisory staff appoint t he fol l owshyi ng committees

Nominating Committee Audit i ng Committee Constitution Camm1ttee Annua+ Progr am of Work Commit tee Resolutions Committee Committee to work out suitable name and cover sheet

for n8WS letter (committee to be composed of incomingBecr~ary ampreporter)

4 Tbe Aud1tiIleuro Oommittee was appointed dur1Dg the Executive Committee meeti ng The books of the treasurer were balanced and found to be in good order The Audi tiIlg COnmlittee was composed of Byron Cowart Same Price Jones and W F Owens

5 The President ]3111 Mason and the Treasurer Earnest Thorchill were appointed as a committee to work out a budget for the year 1932-33 This was done and a budget was approved Twent1- f i ve hundred was Bet as the goal for member ship for next year

6 The matter of sendiog two delegates t o the national meeting was discussed It was moved and seconded that r ecommendation be s ubmit ted t o the House of Delegates that the same policy be followed next year as Bas been followed in the past i n selecting delegates to the national meeti ng

The third annual meeting of the Alabama Associ ation of Future Farmers of America was called to order in in LatlgdOll Hall on Fr1~ morning July l5J

at 800 o cloCk The invocation was by Rev ]ruce McGeheeJ Pastor of the Auburn M E Church This was followed by t he Singing of America The song Future Farmers of America was also sUllg Paul Davis of the Cherokee Chapter acted as song leader during the entire meeting

The welcome address was delivered by Dr Bradford KDapp President of t he Alabama Polytechnic Institute A response to t his address was given by W F Owens S~ate Reporter

The seating of the House of Delegat es was t he fir st matter of business to be taken up The f ollowing 69 chapter s wer e Dfficially r epr esented

Abbeville Albertville At hens Blountsville Evergreen Hamilton Jackson Lineville Sylacauga

iloo County High Akron Alexandira Baker Hill Berry lUue Springe Beauregard Camp Hlll Cherokee

J emison Liberty Leroy Lyefflon Magnolia Marbury McXenaie Midl and City Millerville

Wetumpka Bibb County High Chambers Oount y High Cl~ County High

Citronelle Colli nsville Cl117 Danville

Mount Hope New Hope (Madison) New Eope (Randolph) Ramer

Oolbert Oounty High Daviston Rawl s Dale County High Dixons Mills Rober t sdale Elmore County High Dozier Silas Escamhi a County Hi gh Eva Slocomb Hale County High Henry Count y Hi gh Houston Count y High

Excel Fairvi ew Felix

Stralgbn Sul ligent Tanner -Williams

J ackson Oounty High Five Points Urieh Lamar County High Fol81 Vi ncent Lauderdal e Oounty High Lawrence 00 High

Geraldine Glencoe

Wadley Walnut Grove

Lee County High Marion Oounty High

Goodwat er Gordo

Weoguika Wes t Point

Perry Oounty Hi gh Gorgas Whit e Plains Pickens County High Haleyvi l le Fri sco Oity Shelby Oounty High Holtville Sm1th Station St Olair 00 High Isabella

Followi ng the s eating of t he House of Delegates was the annual address of the State Pr esident

Just beformiddote the 1000 o clock recess period t he following committees were appointed

NOminating Committee - Leon Brock Chairman Thomas Raney Edward Menefee

bull E Cannnack

Program of Work Oommittee - Kl ine Weatherford Chairman HBX1Y Aultman Red Childer s P C Brook

Constitution Commi ttee - J ack Cammack Chairman Jack Mourning Hugh Lambert G T Sargent

Resolutions Committee - Edwin Moody Chairman Winston Harper J C Cl ements B ~ Scr1lggs

After a short recess period t he group reassembled to hear an address by Dr A F Harman State Superintendent of Education I n view of the fact t hat Dr Barman had another engagement on Fridq t he honorary degree of State Farmer was conferred upon him immediateq f ollowing his t alk by Byron Gowart Vice-President The entire grotgt with Dr Harman then assembled on the steps of LaJlgdon Hall to have a picture made

The followi ng chapters gave inter estlDg reports of cbapter act ivities and accomplishments during t he past year Weogufka Marbury) Eva Danville Magnolia Ozark and Abbeville

When t he group reassembled after the lunch period the state secretary and s tate reporter gave the f ollowing reports

REPORT OF STATE SECRETARY

Your EXecutive Committee held a meeting on March 17 1932 in Mr Camnack t s room at the Bankhead Rotel in BirmiDgham The purpose of thi s meetiDg was to plan the program f or the annual meetillg which is now being held

At thi s meeting the matter of increasing Oill member ship in the State wa s discussed and a goal of 2rOoo members set

On Thurs~ July 14 y our ExecutiTe Committ ee held a meeting in )r Oammacks room in AubUll1 State Farmer degree applications were passed on it was decided to confer six honorary State Farmer degrees an auditing committee was appointed the treasurers books were audited and founa t be in g ood order and i t was decided to recommend to the Rouse of Delega t es that a commit tee composed of the incoming secretary and reporter be appoi nted as a committee to work out plans for improving the news lett er f or t he coming yea

REPORT OF STE SECElTARY (COl~ D)

Chapter and membership statistics

Number of chapters chart ered 1931-32 - - - 11 Total number Chapters 1931-32 --- 113 Tot a l membership 1931-32 ---2093

Amlual rogram and Accomplisbments for 1931-32

1 To have an active F F A chapter i n every school 1n Alabama offering courses in vocational agri ulture (One hundred per cent of the departments of vocational agriculture in Alabama have acUve chapters)

2 A state convention to be held in Auburn i n J uly 1932 (Meeting held J~ 15 and 16)

3 Each chapter represented at state convention by two official delegates (About 90 per cent of the hapters are represented)

4 Confer the degree of State Farmer 011 at least 40 members (D~gree conferred on 15)

5 Send two officia l delegates to national convention (This was done)

6 At least 10 Alabama Farmers apply for American Farmer degree (Four applied)

7 Continue work toward -establishing permanent F F A camp

8 A thrift program to be promoted in every chapter (Several chapters have organized thrift banks)

9 A f ather-son banquet to e held by each chapter (From 75 to 90 per cent of the chapters held father-son banquets)

10 Each chapter r eporter to report chapter act ivities to local p~er weekly and to send articles to state reporter once a month (About 50 per cent of the chapters have followed this plan)

11 Each ohapter to set up a definl t e written annual program of work oonsisting of (1) agricultural (Z) SOCial-civic and (3) recreational activities (progress has been made along this line)

12 Each chapter to make a written report of aecomplisbments durlng the year to the State Adviser by June 1 1932 (Progres s has been made along this line)

13 Each chapter to coner the degree of Future Farmer as rapidly as Green Hand members are eligible (This has been done)

REPORT OF STATE REPORTER

During the year ~o news letters were i ssued raquoot h were printed by a Montgomery printer They were in the form of a pamphlet

The first one was published i n November It carried the minutes of t he last s tate convent ion re ommendat ions f or tours camps and other social activlties a message f r om the Stat e Reporter and reports f ram the Leighton and Gherokee chapters

fIlle second news letter was issued in March I t carr ied the pictures of Oliver Manning and Lloyd Ezell who were elected to the degree of American Farmer from Alabama at the national convention l ast fall An announcement appeared to the effect that a program would be g iven over the radi o every second Mondq The pictures of Earnest ThorDhill and Bill Mason were also carried i n thi s issue They were your delegates to the national convention An afticle on t he trip to Kansas City by Earnest Thornhill alao a peared in thi s iSSue and the followi ng chapters were represented with news items Eva Ranburne Abbeville Glencoe Slocomb Isabel1~ Danvi le New Hope Cherokee and McKenzie There was also a list of the clwpters in good standing and the delinquent chapters) and t he usual message f rom the State Reporter

I had a hard time trying to get the chapters to report to me However I wish to thank you for your fine cooperation during t he year

At 300 P M there were two baseball games participated in by teams representing districts 1 2 and 3 Districts 1 and 2 pl~ed the first game district 2 winning easily by a score of 9 to 1 District 2 then p~ed dist r ict 3 district 2 again winning by a acore of 3 to 2 This is the seoond consecutive year that district 2 has been successful i n winning from both distriot 1 and district 3 In the seoond game it seemed for a lrbile that that Ci1strict 3 had an exoellent chanoe to win but due to the very excellent team work of di strict 2 the game was finalq won in the seventh inning by a Bcor e of three to two

After the ball games the crowd went to the gymnasium for a swim After s~per they reassembled to hear Earnest Thornhill give a report of his trip to the national convention and then to attend the pioture shOli at ~iger Theater

On Satur~ morning July 16 1932 at 8 00 A MO J t h e meeting was again called to order by the Presidentr followed by the singing of FUture Farmers of America

The Ramer and Evergreen Chapters gave t he following i nteresting reshyports on their annual programs of work

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

6 The matter of sendiog two delegates t o the national meeting was discussed It was moved and seconded that r ecommendation be s ubmit ted t o the House of Delegates that the same policy be followed next year as Bas been followed in the past i n selecting delegates to the national meeti ng

The third annual meeting of the Alabama Associ ation of Future Farmers of America was called to order in in LatlgdOll Hall on Fr1~ morning July l5J

at 800 o cloCk The invocation was by Rev ]ruce McGeheeJ Pastor of the Auburn M E Church This was followed by t he Singing of America The song Future Farmers of America was also sUllg Paul Davis of the Cherokee Chapter acted as song leader during the entire meeting

The welcome address was delivered by Dr Bradford KDapp President of t he Alabama Polytechnic Institute A response to t his address was given by W F Owens S~ate Reporter

The seating of the House of Delegat es was t he fir st matter of business to be taken up The f ollowing 69 chapter s wer e Dfficially r epr esented

Abbeville Albertville At hens Blountsville Evergreen Hamilton Jackson Lineville Sylacauga

iloo County High Akron Alexandira Baker Hill Berry lUue Springe Beauregard Camp Hlll Cherokee

J emison Liberty Leroy Lyefflon Magnolia Marbury McXenaie Midl and City Millerville

Wetumpka Bibb County High Chambers Oount y High Cl~ County High

Citronelle Colli nsville Cl117 Danville

Mount Hope New Hope (Madison) New Eope (Randolph) Ramer

Oolbert Oounty High Daviston Rawl s Dale County High Dixons Mills Rober t sdale Elmore County High Dozier Silas Escamhi a County Hi gh Eva Slocomb Hale County High Henry Count y Hi gh Houston Count y High

Excel Fairvi ew Felix

Stralgbn Sul ligent Tanner -Williams

J ackson Oounty High Five Points Urieh Lamar County High Fol81 Vi ncent Lauderdal e Oounty High Lawrence 00 High

Geraldine Glencoe

Wadley Walnut Grove

Lee County High Marion Oounty High

Goodwat er Gordo

Weoguika Wes t Point

Perry Oounty Hi gh Gorgas Whit e Plains Pickens County High Haleyvi l le Fri sco Oity Shelby Oounty High Holtville Sm1th Station St Olair 00 High Isabella

Followi ng the s eating of t he House of Delegates was the annual address of the State Pr esident

Just beformiddote the 1000 o clock recess period t he following committees were appointed

NOminating Committee - Leon Brock Chairman Thomas Raney Edward Menefee

bull E Cannnack

Program of Work Oommittee - Kl ine Weatherford Chairman HBX1Y Aultman Red Childer s P C Brook

Constitution Commi ttee - J ack Cammack Chairman Jack Mourning Hugh Lambert G T Sargent

Resolutions Committee - Edwin Moody Chairman Winston Harper J C Cl ements B ~ Scr1lggs

After a short recess period t he group reassembled to hear an address by Dr A F Harman State Superintendent of Education I n view of the fact t hat Dr Barman had another engagement on Fridq t he honorary degree of State Farmer was conferred upon him immediateq f ollowing his t alk by Byron Gowart Vice-President The entire grotgt with Dr Harman then assembled on the steps of LaJlgdon Hall to have a picture made

The followi ng chapters gave inter estlDg reports of cbapter act ivities and accomplishments during t he past year Weogufka Marbury) Eva Danville Magnolia Ozark and Abbeville

When t he group reassembled after the lunch period the state secretary and s tate reporter gave the f ollowing reports

REPORT OF STATE SECRETARY

Your EXecutive Committee held a meeting on March 17 1932 in Mr Camnack t s room at the Bankhead Rotel in BirmiDgham The purpose of thi s meetiDg was to plan the program f or the annual meetillg which is now being held

At thi s meeting the matter of increasing Oill member ship in the State wa s discussed and a goal of 2rOoo members set

On Thurs~ July 14 y our ExecutiTe Committ ee held a meeting in )r Oammacks room in AubUll1 State Farmer degree applications were passed on it was decided to confer six honorary State Farmer degrees an auditing committee was appointed the treasurers books were audited and founa t be in g ood order and i t was decided to recommend to the Rouse of Delega t es that a commit tee composed of the incoming secretary and reporter be appoi nted as a committee to work out plans for improving the news lett er f or t he coming yea

REPORT OF STE SECElTARY (COl~ D)

Chapter and membership statistics

Number of chapters chart ered 1931-32 - - - 11 Total number Chapters 1931-32 --- 113 Tot a l membership 1931-32 ---2093

Amlual rogram and Accomplisbments for 1931-32

1 To have an active F F A chapter i n every school 1n Alabama offering courses in vocational agri ulture (One hundred per cent of the departments of vocational agriculture in Alabama have acUve chapters)

2 A state convention to be held in Auburn i n J uly 1932 (Meeting held J~ 15 and 16)

3 Each chapter represented at state convention by two official delegates (About 90 per cent of the hapters are represented)

4 Confer the degree of State Farmer 011 at least 40 members (D~gree conferred on 15)

5 Send two officia l delegates to national convention (This was done)

6 At least 10 Alabama Farmers apply for American Farmer degree (Four applied)

7 Continue work toward -establishing permanent F F A camp

8 A thrift program to be promoted in every chapter (Several chapters have organized thrift banks)

9 A f ather-son banquet to e held by each chapter (From 75 to 90 per cent of the chapters held father-son banquets)

10 Each chapter r eporter to report chapter act ivities to local p~er weekly and to send articles to state reporter once a month (About 50 per cent of the chapters have followed this plan)

11 Each ohapter to set up a definl t e written annual program of work oonsisting of (1) agricultural (Z) SOCial-civic and (3) recreational activities (progress has been made along this line)

12 Each chapter to make a written report of aecomplisbments durlng the year to the State Adviser by June 1 1932 (Progres s has been made along this line)

13 Each chapter to coner the degree of Future Farmer as rapidly as Green Hand members are eligible (This has been done)

REPORT OF STATE REPORTER

During the year ~o news letters were i ssued raquoot h were printed by a Montgomery printer They were in the form of a pamphlet

The first one was published i n November It carried the minutes of t he last s tate convent ion re ommendat ions f or tours camps and other social activlties a message f r om the Stat e Reporter and reports f ram the Leighton and Gherokee chapters

fIlle second news letter was issued in March I t carr ied the pictures of Oliver Manning and Lloyd Ezell who were elected to the degree of American Farmer from Alabama at the national convention l ast fall An announcement appeared to the effect that a program would be g iven over the radi o every second Mondq The pictures of Earnest ThorDhill and Bill Mason were also carried i n thi s issue They were your delegates to the national convention An afticle on t he trip to Kansas City by Earnest Thornhill alao a peared in thi s iSSue and the followi ng chapters were represented with news items Eva Ranburne Abbeville Glencoe Slocomb Isabel1~ Danvi le New Hope Cherokee and McKenzie There was also a list of the clwpters in good standing and the delinquent chapters) and t he usual message f rom the State Reporter

I had a hard time trying to get the chapters to report to me However I wish to thank you for your fine cooperation during t he year

At 300 P M there were two baseball games participated in by teams representing districts 1 2 and 3 Districts 1 and 2 pl~ed the first game district 2 winning easily by a score of 9 to 1 District 2 then p~ed dist r ict 3 district 2 again winning by a acore of 3 to 2 This is the seoond consecutive year that district 2 has been successful i n winning from both distriot 1 and district 3 In the seoond game it seemed for a lrbile that that Ci1strict 3 had an exoellent chanoe to win but due to the very excellent team work of di strict 2 the game was finalq won in the seventh inning by a Bcor e of three to two

After the ball games the crowd went to the gymnasium for a swim After s~per they reassembled to hear Earnest Thornhill give a report of his trip to the national convention and then to attend the pioture shOli at ~iger Theater

On Satur~ morning July 16 1932 at 8 00 A MO J t h e meeting was again called to order by the Presidentr followed by the singing of FUture Farmers of America

The Ramer and Evergreen Chapters gave t he following i nteresting reshyports on their annual programs of work

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

Just beformiddote the 1000 o clock recess period t he following committees were appointed

NOminating Committee - Leon Brock Chairman Thomas Raney Edward Menefee

bull E Cannnack

Program of Work Oommittee - Kl ine Weatherford Chairman HBX1Y Aultman Red Childer s P C Brook

Constitution Commi ttee - J ack Cammack Chairman Jack Mourning Hugh Lambert G T Sargent

Resolutions Committee - Edwin Moody Chairman Winston Harper J C Cl ements B ~ Scr1lggs

After a short recess period t he group reassembled to hear an address by Dr A F Harman State Superintendent of Education I n view of the fact t hat Dr Barman had another engagement on Fridq t he honorary degree of State Farmer was conferred upon him immediateq f ollowing his t alk by Byron Gowart Vice-President The entire grotgt with Dr Harman then assembled on the steps of LaJlgdon Hall to have a picture made

The followi ng chapters gave inter estlDg reports of cbapter act ivities and accomplishments during t he past year Weogufka Marbury) Eva Danville Magnolia Ozark and Abbeville

When t he group reassembled after the lunch period the state secretary and s tate reporter gave the f ollowing reports

REPORT OF STATE SECRETARY

Your EXecutive Committee held a meeting on March 17 1932 in Mr Camnack t s room at the Bankhead Rotel in BirmiDgham The purpose of thi s meetiDg was to plan the program f or the annual meetillg which is now being held

At thi s meeting the matter of increasing Oill member ship in the State wa s discussed and a goal of 2rOoo members set

On Thurs~ July 14 y our ExecutiTe Committ ee held a meeting in )r Oammacks room in AubUll1 State Farmer degree applications were passed on it was decided to confer six honorary State Farmer degrees an auditing committee was appointed the treasurers books were audited and founa t be in g ood order and i t was decided to recommend to the Rouse of Delega t es that a commit tee composed of the incoming secretary and reporter be appoi nted as a committee to work out plans for improving the news lett er f or t he coming yea

REPORT OF STE SECElTARY (COl~ D)

Chapter and membership statistics

Number of chapters chart ered 1931-32 - - - 11 Total number Chapters 1931-32 --- 113 Tot a l membership 1931-32 ---2093

Amlual rogram and Accomplisbments for 1931-32

1 To have an active F F A chapter i n every school 1n Alabama offering courses in vocational agri ulture (One hundred per cent of the departments of vocational agriculture in Alabama have acUve chapters)

2 A state convention to be held in Auburn i n J uly 1932 (Meeting held J~ 15 and 16)

3 Each chapter represented at state convention by two official delegates (About 90 per cent of the hapters are represented)

4 Confer the degree of State Farmer 011 at least 40 members (D~gree conferred on 15)

5 Send two officia l delegates to national convention (This was done)

6 At least 10 Alabama Farmers apply for American Farmer degree (Four applied)

7 Continue work toward -establishing permanent F F A camp

8 A thrift program to be promoted in every chapter (Several chapters have organized thrift banks)

9 A f ather-son banquet to e held by each chapter (From 75 to 90 per cent of the chapters held father-son banquets)

10 Each chapter r eporter to report chapter act ivities to local p~er weekly and to send articles to state reporter once a month (About 50 per cent of the chapters have followed this plan)

11 Each ohapter to set up a definl t e written annual program of work oonsisting of (1) agricultural (Z) SOCial-civic and (3) recreational activities (progress has been made along this line)

12 Each chapter to make a written report of aecomplisbments durlng the year to the State Adviser by June 1 1932 (Progres s has been made along this line)

13 Each chapter to coner the degree of Future Farmer as rapidly as Green Hand members are eligible (This has been done)

REPORT OF STATE REPORTER

During the year ~o news letters were i ssued raquoot h were printed by a Montgomery printer They were in the form of a pamphlet

The first one was published i n November It carried the minutes of t he last s tate convent ion re ommendat ions f or tours camps and other social activlties a message f r om the Stat e Reporter and reports f ram the Leighton and Gherokee chapters

fIlle second news letter was issued in March I t carr ied the pictures of Oliver Manning and Lloyd Ezell who were elected to the degree of American Farmer from Alabama at the national convention l ast fall An announcement appeared to the effect that a program would be g iven over the radi o every second Mondq The pictures of Earnest ThorDhill and Bill Mason were also carried i n thi s issue They were your delegates to the national convention An afticle on t he trip to Kansas City by Earnest Thornhill alao a peared in thi s iSSue and the followi ng chapters were represented with news items Eva Ranburne Abbeville Glencoe Slocomb Isabel1~ Danvi le New Hope Cherokee and McKenzie There was also a list of the clwpters in good standing and the delinquent chapters) and t he usual message f rom the State Reporter

I had a hard time trying to get the chapters to report to me However I wish to thank you for your fine cooperation during t he year

At 300 P M there were two baseball games participated in by teams representing districts 1 2 and 3 Districts 1 and 2 pl~ed the first game district 2 winning easily by a score of 9 to 1 District 2 then p~ed dist r ict 3 district 2 again winning by a acore of 3 to 2 This is the seoond consecutive year that district 2 has been successful i n winning from both distriot 1 and district 3 In the seoond game it seemed for a lrbile that that Ci1strict 3 had an exoellent chanoe to win but due to the very excellent team work of di strict 2 the game was finalq won in the seventh inning by a Bcor e of three to two

After the ball games the crowd went to the gymnasium for a swim After s~per they reassembled to hear Earnest Thornhill give a report of his trip to the national convention and then to attend the pioture shOli at ~iger Theater

On Satur~ morning July 16 1932 at 8 00 A MO J t h e meeting was again called to order by the Presidentr followed by the singing of FUture Farmers of America

The Ramer and Evergreen Chapters gave t he following i nteresting reshyports on their annual programs of work

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

REPORT OF STE SECElTARY (COl~ D)

Chapter and membership statistics

Number of chapters chart ered 1931-32 - - - 11 Total number Chapters 1931-32 --- 113 Tot a l membership 1931-32 ---2093

Amlual rogram and Accomplisbments for 1931-32

1 To have an active F F A chapter i n every school 1n Alabama offering courses in vocational agri ulture (One hundred per cent of the departments of vocational agriculture in Alabama have acUve chapters)

2 A state convention to be held in Auburn i n J uly 1932 (Meeting held J~ 15 and 16)

3 Each chapter represented at state convention by two official delegates (About 90 per cent of the hapters are represented)

4 Confer the degree of State Farmer 011 at least 40 members (D~gree conferred on 15)

5 Send two officia l delegates to national convention (This was done)

6 At least 10 Alabama Farmers apply for American Farmer degree (Four applied)

7 Continue work toward -establishing permanent F F A camp

8 A thrift program to be promoted in every chapter (Several chapters have organized thrift banks)

9 A f ather-son banquet to e held by each chapter (From 75 to 90 per cent of the chapters held father-son banquets)

10 Each chapter r eporter to report chapter act ivities to local p~er weekly and to send articles to state reporter once a month (About 50 per cent of the chapters have followed this plan)

11 Each ohapter to set up a definl t e written annual program of work oonsisting of (1) agricultural (Z) SOCial-civic and (3) recreational activities (progress has been made along this line)

12 Each chapter to make a written report of aecomplisbments durlng the year to the State Adviser by June 1 1932 (Progres s has been made along this line)

13 Each chapter to coner the degree of Future Farmer as rapidly as Green Hand members are eligible (This has been done)

REPORT OF STATE REPORTER

During the year ~o news letters were i ssued raquoot h were printed by a Montgomery printer They were in the form of a pamphlet

The first one was published i n November It carried the minutes of t he last s tate convent ion re ommendat ions f or tours camps and other social activlties a message f r om the Stat e Reporter and reports f ram the Leighton and Gherokee chapters

fIlle second news letter was issued in March I t carr ied the pictures of Oliver Manning and Lloyd Ezell who were elected to the degree of American Farmer from Alabama at the national convention l ast fall An announcement appeared to the effect that a program would be g iven over the radi o every second Mondq The pictures of Earnest ThorDhill and Bill Mason were also carried i n thi s issue They were your delegates to the national convention An afticle on t he trip to Kansas City by Earnest Thornhill alao a peared in thi s iSSue and the followi ng chapters were represented with news items Eva Ranburne Abbeville Glencoe Slocomb Isabel1~ Danvi le New Hope Cherokee and McKenzie There was also a list of the clwpters in good standing and the delinquent chapters) and t he usual message f rom the State Reporter

I had a hard time trying to get the chapters to report to me However I wish to thank you for your fine cooperation during t he year

At 300 P M there were two baseball games participated in by teams representing districts 1 2 and 3 Districts 1 and 2 pl~ed the first game district 2 winning easily by a score of 9 to 1 District 2 then p~ed dist r ict 3 district 2 again winning by a acore of 3 to 2 This is the seoond consecutive year that district 2 has been successful i n winning from both distriot 1 and district 3 In the seoond game it seemed for a lrbile that that Ci1strict 3 had an exoellent chanoe to win but due to the very excellent team work of di strict 2 the game was finalq won in the seventh inning by a Bcor e of three to two

After the ball games the crowd went to the gymnasium for a swim After s~per they reassembled to hear Earnest Thornhill give a report of his trip to the national convention and then to attend the pioture shOli at ~iger Theater

On Satur~ morning July 16 1932 at 8 00 A MO J t h e meeting was again called to order by the Presidentr followed by the singing of FUture Farmers of America

The Ramer and Evergreen Chapters gave t he following i nteresting reshyports on their annual programs of work

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

REPORT OF STATE REPORTER

During the year ~o news letters were i ssued raquoot h were printed by a Montgomery printer They were in the form of a pamphlet

The first one was published i n November It carried the minutes of t he last s tate convent ion re ommendat ions f or tours camps and other social activlties a message f r om the Stat e Reporter and reports f ram the Leighton and Gherokee chapters

fIlle second news letter was issued in March I t carr ied the pictures of Oliver Manning and Lloyd Ezell who were elected to the degree of American Farmer from Alabama at the national convention l ast fall An announcement appeared to the effect that a program would be g iven over the radi o every second Mondq The pictures of Earnest ThorDhill and Bill Mason were also carried i n thi s issue They were your delegates to the national convention An afticle on t he trip to Kansas City by Earnest Thornhill alao a peared in thi s iSSue and the followi ng chapters were represented with news items Eva Ranburne Abbeville Glencoe Slocomb Isabel1~ Danvi le New Hope Cherokee and McKenzie There was also a list of the clwpters in good standing and the delinquent chapters) and t he usual message f rom the State Reporter

I had a hard time trying to get the chapters to report to me However I wish to thank you for your fine cooperation during t he year

At 300 P M there were two baseball games participated in by teams representing districts 1 2 and 3 Districts 1 and 2 pl~ed the first game district 2 winning easily by a score of 9 to 1 District 2 then p~ed dist r ict 3 district 2 again winning by a acore of 3 to 2 This is the seoond consecutive year that district 2 has been successful i n winning from both distriot 1 and district 3 In the seoond game it seemed for a lrbile that that Ci1strict 3 had an exoellent chanoe to win but due to the very excellent team work of di strict 2 the game was finalq won in the seventh inning by a Bcor e of three to two

After the ball games the crowd went to the gymnasium for a swim After s~per they reassembled to hear Earnest Thornhill give a report of his trip to the national convention and then to attend the pioture shOli at ~iger Theater

On Satur~ morning July 16 1932 at 8 00 A MO J t h e meeting was again called to order by the Presidentr followed by the singing of FUture Farmers of America

The Ramer and Evergreen Chapters gave t he following i nteresting reshyports on their annual programs of work

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

BAMER CHAPTER - REPORT ON ANNUAL PROGRAM

Objectives set up f or 1931-32

1 Cont inue to oper ate school lunCh room started last year 2 Cont inue pl~groUlld equipment construction for elementary school 3 Cooperate with town i n sponsoring cle~up ~8 4 Sponsor rat eradication campaign 5 Continue school ground beautificat i on S Sponsor the er ection of two br ick column posts at entrance to campus 7 Hold annual barbecue supper f or parent s and f r iends 8 Present two come~ agricultural plqs a t chapel hour ~ 9 Start t hrift bank for Ramer chapter

10 Const ruct hot beds for purpose of propagating plants and cuttings 11 PUbliSh at least eighteen news articles in da1~ papers 12 Present loving c~ to best all -round voca t i onal agri culture boy 13 Hold a t wo or three ~ SU1lllner camp for F F A boys

During t he past school year our chapter again operated the school lunch r OOlU that was s tarted l ast year Sandwiches potat 9 chips cakes milk ice cream and hot soUfl were so ld during the year Th e t otal pr ofit this year aft er all expenses were deducted amounted to $125 00 Fifty dollars of this money was used by t he chap ter to help pq for the projects of the members The remaining amount went into the school treasurer

Last year our chapter constructed p~ ground equipment f or our elementary school valued at $300 00 Thi s year t he equipment was r eworked and more e uipment planned f or the f uture Our chapter cooperated with the town and oivic Cl~8 in sponsoring town clean-Ul)~ Our activities i ncluded pruning shade trees along the stree t s1 demolishing msightly t own eye-sores r~ng 1Jplusmn) and hauliDg off of trash along the s t reets

Last f all our chapter sponsored a rat eradication campai gn in the community Eight een f arm homes cooperated in this campaign Our boys purchased mixed and delivered the poison and bait gave directions as to how to put out t he poiBo~ and checked 1Jplusmn) on results A check showed t hat about 100 rats were found dead Allowiog p200 for t he cost of one rat a year our campaign was Successful to the ext ent of $200 00 or more

Although we are very proud of our now beautiful school grounds we can al~s find improvement work to be done This year our activi t ies on the grounds included such work as spr~ing pruniDg and fertilizing trees and shrubbery keepi ng grass and underbrush cleared out and keeping alive a movement t o keep paper and trash off t he gro-ands

One of our major objectives for the year was t he construction of two large bri Ck column posts equipped with electr i c l1ghts at the entrance of our school grounds The t otal cost of this project including electric wiri ng was $6500 The posts were presented to the school as a gif t from t he chapter at our annual barbecue supper

It is t he policy of our chapter to hold annually a barbecue supper for our parents and Mends On these occasions the boys wi th the assistance of our adviser and home economics girls prepare and serve t his s1JPper The cost s eldom

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

runs over one doll ar per boy as much of t he product s are donat ed by the boys and those i nterested Thi s year we barbecued 100 broilers along with a small pig With t h i s we served camp stew p otato salad and the other things that go wit h barbecue A check showed that we had more than 175 parents and f riends at our supper t h i s y ear

On two occasions dur i ng the past sChool yea r our chapter presented plays a t the s chool chapel hour These pl~s usual ly cause much interest to be worked up in the s chool OUr chapel programs were voted to be alOOng t he b est f or the year by the school This y ear we pr es ent ed The Trial of the Soi l Robber II and uBeating the Sheri f f t o Farmer Brown

Another venture of t he chapter was that of organlz1Dg anF F A thrift bank We did not expect to per fec t this organizat i on in one year but pillanned t o work 1 t up on a safe and sound poliC1 Due to t h e present lack of cash we have t o date only about $2500 on deposit draw1cg 6 per cent interest We hope t o run this total tip to $300 00 by the end of t his year

A group proj ect of our chapter that no one thought very important when discussed proved to be one of the best that we accomplished Our boYS with t he assistance of our adviser planned last spring the c onst ruction of a small hot bed f or the purpose of produc1ng plants and cuttings for our personal use The results are t hat we now have a 90-foot f lue hot bed and a l2-poundoot electric hot bed t hat yiel ded over 70 000 potato draws 15 000 tomato p l ants and several )undred f lower plants that were used by the boys and the surroundi~ communities Th e p lant s were sold at a very reasonable price and were in great d emend The entir e plant cost $87 00 Our receipts f rom the sale of p lants will just about p~ for the cons truct i on cos t e expect to cont i nue this project again next y ear e

During the year just ended we have bad writt en and published 24 news articles in reference to F F A work

It is t he policy of our chapter to present annually to the bes t allshyround vocational agriculture boy t he Ramer Chapter loving cup which he holds f or a p eriod of one year It then goes back to the chapter to be presented to the new winner Standards have been s et up by which this wi~er is selected ~nese s t andards are based upon scholastic work voca t i onal agri shyculture work c l ub work and the vote of the clJapter This y ear the cup was presented to our chap ter president James Raley

The last obj ec tive we have not yet reached but hope to do so in a few weeks when the entire metiber8h1p of t he chap t er wi ll go on a campi ng t rip for two or three ~s Whil e on this tri p we will set up objectives for next year and make plans f or carrying out the objectives

EVERGREEN CHAPTER - REPom ON ANNUAL PROGBAM

Our Chap ter began the 1931-32 y ear wi t h thir t een chapter member s Our pr es i dent was unable to be with us so we moved the vice-president up and el ec t ed a new Vice-pr esident Our year s program of work was then prepared by a commit tee

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

The first objective was t hat of securing new members To do t his we p larmed a chicken barbecue in September All candidates r membership were invited to be there with a chicken fAile the chickens were barbecmed by members of the chapter~ the other f ellows took a swim e had a grand feed t hat was followed by a program The editor of our town paper was the only outside vis i t or present He was made an honorary member at the end of t he program Nineteen applications were received for membershlp These app l icants wer e i nitiated at the following meeting

We t hen went t o work to arrallge our class r oom as is suggested in the F F A manual Our members at a regular meeting authorized t he secretary and treasurer to order a banner When the banner arr ived the members wished the letterillg IIEIergreen Chapter to be placed on it It was r eturned and we now have it as desired The money spent for this was earned by the group We have the pictures of Washington and Jefferson whi ch were presented by Swift Packing Company A miniature p l ow was presented by t he J ohn Deere Comp~ On one wall we have our flag that measures 39 by 70 inches We have Bur charter f r amed as well as the pictures of t he 1931 F F A convention We do not have the stuffed owl yet but we have the gavel ear of corn and six F F A manuals Our membership is proud of ito class room and we work to keep it in order

We held regular meetings at a period set aside for club work on Tuesciq afternoon The various clubs in the s chool were responsible f or a chapel proshygram onoe a week The F ]1 A held t he lead i n posltion and w e put on t hree programs duri ng the yeax First we tol d the purposes of the F F A second we presented The Trlal of a Soil Robber third a program celebrating George Washingtons aooth anniversary

We had more students euoll i n vocat ional agriculture this y ear than ever before and we are proud to 8~ that one hundred per cent are members of the F F A chapter

The elIapter organized a court for the purpose of punishing criminals among our group The officers were elected after t aki Dg the stump i n their behalf They then went to the court house and visited the clerk judge and attorneys t o learn more of court procedure Some of our laJIs were regardiDg dalnage to laWll sllrubs shop tools fences class room and other school proper ty The court proved a means of impeaching an inefficient r eporter duriog the year The judge passed sentences of l abor and punishment

Our chapter presented liThe Trial of a 5011 Robber to the Yt Union eveniDg school one n1ght We also purchased fruit trees for our home orchards cooperative~ with them

We had a basketball team that was composed of F F A member s who did not go out f or t he r egular t eam On Fri dav a f t ernoons we plqed the non-ag o t eam We have our baseball team but to date we have plared only two i nter-chapter games Our pl~ers are scattered and the grass has bad them on the go since s chool was out

One of our most interesting activi ties was a f ather- mother-son banquet We had been leaving mother out long enough and 1 t was a real p easure to have

both parents pr esent We had about ninety 1eople present including Visitors

from town Most of the food was brought from the h omes of the boys and prepared by the senior home economics girls We made our own ice cr eam and the girls served the banquet In return the chap t er f i nanced a picture show party f or t hese girls

We have the front of ott school grounds landscaped and are now propagating shrubs for the rear g rounds e plan to complete our l aJldshyscapillg this year

Our chapt er entered into the fight for the continuance of voca tional education as provided in the Smith-Hughes Act We sent a telegram f rom the chapter to eaCh senator and representative and had written 131 letters

Each member of the F F A chapter made a survey of the Shop jobs at our homes t hat needed doing and we worked to ge t the j obs done

Our thirty-two members are carrying a total of 86 project s and one of our aims is to finish With at least 90 per cent of them completed

Duri ng the year we have made our chapter one that the members are glad to b e a part of Also it is an or ganization that the younger boys wi sh to belong to We are striving to make our profession one that is honorable and self- supporting

We plan to go t o the f or a f ew d~s f ishiX3g as soon as the crops are laid by

FollowiDg the above r eports of the Ramer and Ever green chapters the Rev Bruce McGehee ~d to t he boys for about twenty minut es

The House of Delegates then voted to confer the State Farmer degree upon the f ollowing four teen applicants They were requested to take their places on the stage for the presentation of the kqs the emblem of this degree

D Keit h Ferr ell Ur iah H1gh chool ames O Snider Robertsdale High School

Claxton Rayen C~ Count y Hi gh School Edwin Moo~ Lawrence County High School Lamar Northington Sulligent High School Clyde DaviS Lamar County HIgh School Norman Crawford Per ry County High School Cl1f~ord M Manning Isabella High School J T Lucy Col11nsvllle High School Perry Cl~J Glencoe High School AVerette Kelley Abbeville State Sec Agrlc School Til lman Spear Ramer High School ~bert Ellison Ramer High School Byron Cowart Evergreen Stat e Sec Agrl c School

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The following reports were r ead by the committee chairmen and approved by the House of Delegates

BEFORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

We t he Committee on Resolut ions i n behalf of t h e Alabama Association of Fature Farmers of Amer ica hereby resolve to ext end thanks t o the following individuals and organizations which have cont ributed greatly to the success of t he t hird annual meeting of the Al abama Associashytion of Future Farmers of America

1 To t he 1931-32 State F F A officers f or their ef forts i n pramotiDg the years work and making adequate provisions for the meeting now in s eBsion

2 To Dr Knapp and his co-workers for the i nvitation t o hold the third aamual meeting at the Al abama Polytechnic I nstitute

3 To Mr R E Cammack and his slJplusmn)ervisors and Mr Chesnutt f or their leader ship and guidance tbroUeuro hout the year

4 To the frat ernities and dormi t or ies for the wonderful hospitalities shown us during the meeting

5 To the athl etic department for t he use of the pool during the hot aft ernoon

6 To the lager Theater for t he consideration in reducing the price of t i CkeDs for the Future Farmer mambers

BECO~1lATIONS OF CO ~TITmION COMMITTEE

1amp Page 5 Section D Article I of the Oonstitution whiCh reads lEarn and deposit in baok or product ively invest at least $200 007

be amended to read Earn and depoeit in bank or productive~ i nvest at leas t $10000 11

2 Recommend that Section A Article 5 No 2 Page 7 wldch reads Each chapter shall be represented by the vocational teacher as a delegate be eliminated from the Constitution in that each chapter will send del agates to th~ State Oonvent ion

3 Page 8 Article 6 State meeting of Future Farmers of Alabama shall be held annually The t ime shall be on Satur~ before the summer school of inetruction Q Recommend t hat this be amended to read The state meet1Ilg of future Farmers of Ameri ca shall be held aJlnually The time shall be on Fri da3 aIlcl Sa turdaybafore the summer school of instruction1i

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The following reports were r ead by the committee chairmen and approved by the House of Delegates

BEFORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE

We t he Committee on Resolut ions i n behalf of t h e Alabama Association of Fature Farmers of Amer ica hereby resolve to ext end thanks t o the following individuals and organizations which have cont ributed greatly to the success of t he t hird annual meeting of the Al abama Associashytion of Future Farmers of America

1 To t he 1931-32 State F F A officers f or their ef forts i n pramotiDg the years work and making adequate provisions for the meeting now in s eBsion

2 To Dr Knapp and his co-workers for the i nvitation t o hold the third aamual meeting at the Al abama Polytechnic I nstitute

3 To Mr R E Cammack and his slJplusmn)ervisors and Mr Chesnutt f or their leader ship and guidance tbroUeuro hout the year

4 To the frat ernities and dormi t or ies for the wonderful hospitalities shown us during the meeting

5 To the athl etic department for t he use of the pool during the hot aft ernoon

6 To the lager Theater for t he consideration in reducing the price of t i CkeDs for the Future Farmer mambers

BECO~1lATIONS OF CO ~TITmION COMMITTEE

1amp Page 5 Section D Article I of the Oonstitution whiCh reads lEarn and deposit in baok or product ively invest at least $200 007

be amended to read Earn and depoeit in bank or productive~ i nvest at leas t $10000 11

2 Recommend that Section A Article 5 No 2 Page 7 wldch reads Each chapter shall be represented by the vocational teacher as a delegate be eliminated from the Constitution in that each chapter will send del agates to th~ State Oonvent ion

3 Page 8 Article 6 State meeting of Future Farmers of Alabama shall be held annually The t ime shall be on Satur~ before the summer school of inetruction Q Recommend t hat this be amended to read The state meet1Ilg of future Farmers of Ameri ca shall be held aJlnually The time shall be on Fri da3 aIlcl Sa turdaybafore the summer school of instruction1i

4 Reoommend that Section A Articl e 7 Page 8 which reads Dues shall be paid into the State Treaslll1 by November 1 II

be amended to read Dues shal l be paid i nto t he State Treasury on November 1 and April 1 of each year

ANNUAL FROG-RAM FOR 1932-33

RECOMMENDED BY PROGRAM OF WORK COMMITTEE

1 Rave an active F F A chapter i n every school i n Alabama offershying courses in vocatioIlal agri culture

2 A state convent ion to be hel d in Auburn in July 1933

3 EaCh chapter r epresented at the state convention by two official delegates

4 Confer the degree of State Fanner on at least 40 memberamp

58 Send two official delegates to national convent i on

6 At least 10 Alabama Farmers app~ f or American Farmer degree

7 Continue work toward establishing permanent F F A camp

8 A thrift progr am to be promoted i n every chapter

9 A father-son banquet to be held by each chapter

10 EaCh chapter reporter to report chapter acti~ties to l ocal paper weekly and to send art i cles t o st a te reporter once a mont h

11 Each chapter to set ~ a definite wr i tten annual program f1f wo~k consisting of (1) agricultural (2) soci al-civic and (3) r ecreational activities

l Zi Each Chapter to make a writt en r eport of accomplisbments during year to the State Adviser by J une 1 1933

13 Each chapter confer the degree of Future Farmer as rapidly as Green Rand members are eligi ble

14 Each chapter to start F F A library

15 Aid t eacher in improviDg the supervised practice pr ogram

l a Live-at-home program to be sp near ed by each chapter

17 Encourage cooperative project s such as

(a) produci ng soy bean seed

(b) produci ng plants for sale

18 Each chapter conduct a project tour

19 Start F F A nursery for beautifyi ng homes of F F A members

20 Rave joint meeting each month with home economics girls

21 Boys to help with evening schools

The following state officers for the year 1932-33 were recommended by the llominating Committee and elected by the Hous e of Delegates

President Earnest ThorDhi ll (Holtville High SChool) RoOte 3 Wetumpka Alabama

Vice-President Keith Ferrell (Uriah High School) Mount Pleasant Alab~

Secretary Clyde Davis (Lamar County Hi gh School) Melbourne Alabama

Tr easurer Elbert El lison (Ramer High School) Grady Alabama

Reporter Perry Cl~ (Glencoe High SChool) RoOte 2 Gadsden Alabama

RECOMMENDATIONS OF STATE ADVISm

L Each member should p~ his local stat e and national dues oOt of money made t hrough receipts from home proj ec~ work State and national dues should be sent in to the state off ice before November 1

2 Program committees for local Chapters shoul d not confine their objectives t o r epair and construction work about the sChool) but in addit ion to these items appearing on the chapter program each cr~pter shoul d foster in a very definite w~ i mpr oved agricult ural pract i ces throughout the community such as bet ter poultry hogs dairy cattle and l i ve stoCk improved Beed a wi der use of winter and summer l egumes and terracing I do not mean to discredi t t he splendid work which has been done by a number of chapt ers i n making imppovements on school grounds doing repai r work about t he school buildi ng etc I think this is fine and should be a part of each chapters program but i n addition to i tems of this charact er ther e should be an increased amount of emphas i s in ever y pr ogram in fosteriog better a griclllture alollg t he lines named a bove

3 Each chapter sho1lld organize Wld carry out a tluift bank duriDg the comillg year I would suggest that while here you talk to the delegates fr~ the Ramer chapter in order that you ~ familiariz e yourselves with the start they have made in a thrift bank movement I f there are other chapters which have started t his movement it would be wel to talk to the delegates from these chapters also

4 It is goiJJg to be necessary t hat people live at home during the corning yezr to the same extent that it has been necessary to do t his during the past two or three years I am ther efore suggestiJlg t hat the Alabama Ass oci ation of Future F~ers of Ameri ca through the Chapters represented here be one of the strong factors in each community in pointing the wq for t he people t o produce as much as practicable of the feed for live stock and food for the family In connection with this thought each member of every chapter throughout t he State of Alabama should be a committee of one to see to it that the attention of every farmer i n the community is called to wqs in which econoIq should be practiced in the l1ve- at-home pr ogram acreage adJustment the feeding and care of live stock and the maintainiDg of soil fer tility

5 At an early date there will be mailed to each chapter i n Alabama a copy of t he Future Farmer Creed These have been furnished through t he National Congress of Future Farmers of AmericaWhen school opens in the fa111 each chapter should have this creed framed and i t should be appropr1ate~ dlspl~ed on the occasion of Chapter meetings

You are t he future leaders i n agriculture as well as in other lines of business in this Stat e I cannot urge tIflon yO1l Wi th too much euqihasis the importanOBof pr~aring yourselves well for this responsibility which wil lnevitab~ fall upon your Shoulders at no great distant date~ You represent an organization that has greater possibil ities for good than ~ organizat ion within the confines of the State of Alabama Mr P C Brook Assistant Supervisor of AgricuJtureJ has been requested to work with the Executive Committee of this organization during the coming year i n settiDg up a sugshygested library for each chapter You will r eceive early next fall some further suggestions along this line If we are to be prepared for the leadership that we must assume noll and in the f uture it is going to require constant study on our part I therefor e urge each of you present at this time to be even more diligent in the f uture in prepari ng yourself middotfor intelligelt l eadersbip than you have been i n the past

The President requested the newly elected offi cers to come up to the front and make a few remarks to the group Each one r equested f ull cooperation f rom all members of the Associ ation and promised to do hi s part to make 1932-33 a successful year in F F A work

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17 Encourage cooperative project s such as

(a) produci ng soy bean seed

(b) produci ng plants for sale

18 Each chapter conduct a project tour

19 Start F F A nursery for beautifyi ng homes of F F A members

20 Rave joint meeting each month with home economics girls

21 Boys to help with evening schools

The following state officers for the year 1932-33 were recommended by the llominating Committee and elected by the Hous e of Delegates

President Earnest ThorDhi ll (Holtville High SChool) RoOte 3 Wetumpka Alabama

Vice-President Keith Ferrell (Uriah High School) Mount Pleasant Alab~

Secretary Clyde Davis (Lamar County Hi gh School) Melbourne Alabama

Tr easurer Elbert El lison (Ramer High School) Grady Alabama

Reporter Perry Cl~ (Glencoe High SChool) RoOte 2 Gadsden Alabama

RECOMMENDATIONS OF STATE ADVISm

L Each member should p~ his local stat e and national dues oOt of money made t hrough receipts from home proj ec~ work State and national dues should be sent in to the state off ice before November 1

2 Program committees for local Chapters shoul d not confine their objectives t o r epair and construction work about the sChool) but in addit ion to these items appearing on the chapter program each cr~pter shoul d foster in a very definite w~ i mpr oved agricult ural pract i ces throughout the community such as bet ter poultry hogs dairy cattle and l i ve stoCk improved Beed a wi der use of winter and summer l egumes and terracing I do not mean to discredi t t he splendid work which has been done by a number of chapt ers i n making imppovements on school grounds doing repai r work about t he school buildi ng etc I think this is fine and should be a part of each chapters program but i n addition to i tems of this charact er ther e should be an increased amount of emphas i s in ever y pr ogram in fosteriog better a griclllture alollg t he lines named a bove

3 Each chapter sho1lld organize Wld carry out a tluift bank duriDg the comillg year I would suggest that while here you talk to the delegates fr~ the Ramer chapter in order that you ~ familiariz e yourselves with the start they have made in a thrift bank movement I f there are other chapters which have started t his movement it would be wel to talk to the delegates from these chapters also

4 It is goiJJg to be necessary t hat people live at home during the corning yezr to the same extent that it has been necessary to do t his during the past two or three years I am ther efore suggestiJlg t hat the Alabama Ass oci ation of Future F~ers of Ameri ca through the Chapters represented here be one of the strong factors in each community in pointing the wq for t he people t o produce as much as practicable of the feed for live stock and food for the family In connection with this thought each member of every chapter throughout t he State of Alabama should be a committee of one to see to it that the attention of every farmer i n the community is called to wqs in which econoIq should be practiced in the l1ve- at-home pr ogram acreage adJustment the feeding and care of live stock and the maintainiDg of soil fer tility

5 At an early date there will be mailed to each chapter i n Alabama a copy of t he Future Farmer Creed These have been furnished through t he National Congress of Future Farmers of AmericaWhen school opens in the fa111 each chapter should have this creed framed and i t should be appropr1ate~ dlspl~ed on the occasion of Chapter meetings

You are t he future leaders i n agriculture as well as in other lines of business in this Stat e I cannot urge tIflon yO1l Wi th too much euqihasis the importanOBof pr~aring yourselves well for this responsibility which wil lnevitab~ fall upon your Shoulders at no great distant date~ You represent an organization that has greater possibil ities for good than ~ organizat ion within the confines of the State of Alabama Mr P C Brook Assistant Supervisor of AgricuJtureJ has been requested to work with the Executive Committee of this organization during the coming year i n settiDg up a sugshygested library for each chapter You will r eceive early next fall some further suggestions along this line If we are to be prepared for the leadership that we must assume noll and in the f uture it is going to require constant study on our part I therefor e urge each of you present at this time to be even more diligent in the f uture in prepari ng yourself middotfor intelligelt l eadersbip than you have been i n the past

The President requested the newly elected offi cers to come up to the front and make a few remarks to the group Each one r equested f ull cooperation f rom all members of the Associ ation and promised to do hi s part to make 1932-33 a successful year in F F A work

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3 Each chapter sho1lld organize Wld carry out a tluift bank duriDg the comillg year I would suggest that while here you talk to the delegates fr~ the Ramer chapter in order that you ~ familiariz e yourselves with the start they have made in a thrift bank movement I f there are other chapters which have started t his movement it would be wel to talk to the delegates from these chapters also

4 It is goiJJg to be necessary t hat people live at home during the corning yezr to the same extent that it has been necessary to do t his during the past two or three years I am ther efore suggestiJlg t hat the Alabama Ass oci ation of Future F~ers of Ameri ca through the Chapters represented here be one of the strong factors in each community in pointing the wq for t he people t o produce as much as practicable of the feed for live stock and food for the family In connection with this thought each member of every chapter throughout t he State of Alabama should be a committee of one to see to it that the attention of every farmer i n the community is called to wqs in which econoIq should be practiced in the l1ve- at-home pr ogram acreage adJustment the feeding and care of live stock and the maintainiDg of soil fer tility

5 At an early date there will be mailed to each chapter i n Alabama a copy of t he Future Farmer Creed These have been furnished through t he National Congress of Future Farmers of AmericaWhen school opens in the fa111 each chapter should have this creed framed and i t should be appropr1ate~ dlspl~ed on the occasion of Chapter meetings

You are t he future leaders i n agriculture as well as in other lines of business in this Stat e I cannot urge tIflon yO1l Wi th too much euqihasis the importanOBof pr~aring yourselves well for this responsibility which wil lnevitab~ fall upon your Shoulders at no great distant date~ You represent an organization that has greater possibil ities for good than ~ organizat ion within the confines of the State of Alabama Mr P C Brook Assistant Supervisor of AgricuJtureJ has been requested to work with the Executive Committee of this organization during the coming year i n settiDg up a sugshygested library for each chapter You will r eceive early next fall some further suggestions along this line If we are to be prepared for the leadership that we must assume noll and in the f uture it is going to require constant study on our part I therefor e urge each of you present at this time to be even more diligent in the f uture in prepari ng yourself middotfor intelligelt l eadersbip than you have been i n the past

The President requested the newly elected offi cers to come up to the front and make a few remarks to the group Each one r equested f ull cooperation f rom all members of the Associ ation and promised to do hi s part to make 1932-33 a successful year in F F A work

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