Couper's footage of Cal Poly in 1932
Item Description
Early footage of livestock and agricultural activities on Cal Poly campus, when it was known as California Polytechnic School, and prior to the school being recognized as having 'collegiate status' by the state.
[00:00:12] "Cal Poly boys look over barrows for project animals"
[00:00:45] "Getting the Future Farmer champion steer ready for the South San Francisco Show"
[00:01:33] "Carloads of Angus and Herefords owned and fed by students"
[00:02:15] "Looking over the best beef project animals"
[00:02:56] "Cal Poly students round up the breeding animals and calves"
[00:03:45] "Mike Stevens ropes a calf"
[00:03:57] "Selecting market hogs"
[00:04:34] "These students decide the corn is ready to cut down"
[00:05:14] "The chopped corn, ready to be blown into the silo"
[00:05:42] "Time to butcher -- Scalding a pig"
[00:05:47] "And off come the bristles"
[00:06:18] "The poultry unit, cared for entirely by students who share in profits"
[00:07:08] "Picking a good bird from a pen of healthy cockerels"
[00:07:34] "Trapnesting -- Each egg is weighed, credited to the proper hen"
[00:07:55] "Candling and grading eggs"
[00:08:18] "Weighing and grading meat birds"
[00:09:01] "The governor opens the South San Francisco Junior Livestock Show"
[00:09:44] "Officials welcome a junior exhibitor from Nevada"
[00:09:58] "Some of the 350 high-quality hogs shown by Future Farmers"
[00:10:15] "Into the ring come the baby beef classes"
[00:11:16] "Crowds watch the judging"
[00:11:26] "Henry W. Vaughn, nationally-known judge, places the animals"
[00:11:50] "Bert Jones, Cal Poly, wins championship with the steer at the far end"
[00:12:04] "An Angus Class"
[00:12:47] "Judging at the Pacific Slope Show in the New Pavilion"
[00:13:11] "The Centerville Future Farmers Band goes over big"