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THE BATTALION
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8,657 Acres on Campus, Adjacent Area
Most of A&M’s Campus
Unknown to Students
By H. L. CARTER
Freshmen arriving at A&M may
not realize the vastness of the col
lege campus, as there are 8,657
acres in the campus and adjacent
agricultural areas.
Of the total acreage, 4,392 acres
are on the west side of the campus
across the railroad tracks. The
rest is the 3,192-acre college plan
tation, 10 miles southwest of Col
lege Station in the Brazos River
bottomland.
The upland near the campus is
assigned to. various agricultural
departments, which includes the
only School of Veterinary Medi
cine in Texas.
Animal Husbandry
The Department of Animal Hus-
iandry has 1,200 acres which is
divided among the swine, sheep,
beef cattle and horse centers. Ap
proximately 300 pure bred cattle,
1,000 hogs, 250 sheep and 50
horses help carry out the depart
ment’s main purpose of teaching
and research.
Hereford, Angus and Brahma
cattle; Rambouillet, Southdown,
Hampshire -and Suffolk sheep;
Berkshire, Duroc, Hampshire,
Chester White and Poland China
hogs are some of the 'different
breeds of livestock found at the
centers.
Joining the swine center is the
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North Gate
154-acre poultry farm. The latest
equipment and techniques in poul
try industry are used here.
There are about 15,000 laying
hens and 800 turkeys on the farm.
Every year 75,000 to 100,000
chicks are hatched for replace
ments and broilers.
Horticulture
Directly north of the poultry
farm is the Department of Horti
culture’s testing plots. Pecan,
fig, peach, plum and pear trees,
along with vegetables, cover most
of the 105 acres. Horticulture
students receive experience in
grafting, pruning, disease control
and producing. ' .
Dairy Farm
The dairy farm is located about
two miles west of the campus.
With approximately 400 cows, the
farm furnishes testing and re
search for the students.
Milk, ice cream and many other
dairy products for the mess halls
and Memorial Student Center are
produced by the A&M Creamery
from milk received from the dairy
farm.
The milking process can be ob
served daily at 3 p.m. through a
large window at the modern milk
parlor.
Easterwood Field
Easterwood Field, two miles
southwest on FM 60, is the largest
college-owned airport in the na
tion. The airport is used for pas
senger service and flight training
for ROTC seniors.
An atomic Nuclear Science Cen
ter is now being constructed near
the airport.
Range and Forestry
Joining the airport is 1130 acres
assigned to the Department of
Range and Forestry and 176 acres
for the Military Reservation.
The Department of Military Sci
ence and Tactics trains junior and
SCONA Group
Goes to Mexico
Five A&M SCONA delegates
will leave College Station for
Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, to
raise funds for the sixth annual
Student Conference on National
Affairs.
The Aggies going to Monterrey
are Tod Reid, chairman of SCONA
VI; Dan Deupree, vice chairman;
THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu
dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non
profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op
erated by students as a community newspaper and is under
Ihe supervision of the director of Student Publications at
Texas A&M College.
senior advanced Army ROTC ca
dets on the military reservation.
School of Veterinary Medicine
The School of Veterinary Medi
cine is the only one in Texas and
is one of the top veterinary medi
cine schools in the nation.
Admission is obtained only after
completion of the program in pre-
veterinary medicine and selection
is based on a quota which will be
admitted for the session under con
sideration.
Entomology
Near the School of Veterinary
Medicine is the Entomology Re
search Laboratory. The Depart
ment of Entomology is in contin
ual research on the biological de
velopment, habits and control of
insect pests attacking farm crops
and livestock.
College Plantation
The college plantation’s 3,192
acres are located about eight miles
from the campus in the fertile
Brazos River bottomland. The
farm begins on the south side of
the road immediately to the west
of the bridge and south of FM 60.
There are 26 tractors, 3 bulldozers
and a number of trucks and other
farm equipment used on the farm.
The farm’s primary purpose is
to assist with research work car
ried on by the college.
The Departments of Agricul
tural Engineering, Agronomy,
Animal Husbandry, Range and
Forestry, Entomology and Plant
Pathology use the farm for direct
application, testing and research
on farm machinery, insecticides
and crops.
Many crops are grown on the
farm, the primary crops being cot
ton, corn and maize. Other crops
grown are seasme, oats, alfalfa,
castor beans, sunflowers, vetch
and grain sorghums.
The plantation headquarters is
two miles southeast of the river
bridge.
Several roads lead across the
plantation. Visitors are welcome
to tour the farm to see the various
crops grown and the modern
farming method and machinery
used.
Publications
Include ‘Bait’,
Four Magazines
An important part of the col
lege at A&M is the information
and entertainment provided by the
six publications of the Depart
ment of Student Publications.
Included in the list of publica
tions are The Battalion, the col
lege newspaper serving both the
campus and the city of College
Station; the A&M Review, a mag
azine for students in the School
of Arts and Sciences; the Engi
neer, a magazine for students in
the School of Engineering; the
Agriculturist, a magazine for stu
dents in the School of Agriculture;
the Southwestern Veterinarian, a
journal for students in the School
of Veterinary Medicine and pro
fessional veterinarians; and The
Aggieland, the yearbook.
Bill Hicklin, senior journalism
major from Corpus Christi, will
edit the 1960-61 Battalion. The
Battalion' is published four times
a week during the fall and spring
semesters. The staff is made up
of students and membership on
the staff is open to all interested
students. Freshmen are especially
urged to become a member of the
staff during their freshman year.
Jim Gibson, senior journalism
major from San Antonio, is editor
of the quarterly A&M Review.
All students from the School of
Arts and Sciences are invited to
submit articles for publication.
Editing the monthly Engineer
this fall will be Paul York, senior
electrical engineering major from
Marshall. The Engineer contains
technical writings written by stu
dents.
Walter Willms, senior agricul
ture major from Columbus, will
edit the quarterly Agriculturist.
Students write the articles for
this publication.
The Southwestern Veterinarian
is published quarterly and con
tains technical articles dealing
with the problems, involved in vet
erinary medicine. Joseph Smith,
senior veterinary medicine major
from Justin, will be editor this
year.
Richard McGaughy, senior land
scape architecture major from
Houston, is editor of The Aggie
land, the college’s yearbook.
L. A. Duewall is director of the
Department of Student Publica
tions.
The offices of all the publica
tions are located in the basement
of the YMCA. Any interested stu
dents are invited to come by these
offices and apply for staff mem
bership.
Ags in Service
Army Reserve 1st Lt. James N.
Bower, ’57, a former co-editor of
The Battalion, has completed two
weeks on annual active duty train
ing at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Lt. Bower is assigned as supply
officer of Company A in the 307th
Infantry in White Plains, N. Y.
★ ★ ★
Army 2nd Lt. Stanley J. Wil
liams, ’59, has completed the sev
en-week Ranger course at The
Infantry School at Ft, Benning,
Ga.
John McMullen, co-chairman;
Clyde Whitwell, conference man
ager; and Charles Moore, member
of the finance committee.
While in Monterrey, the Aggies
will call on American and Mexican
businessmen in the area to get
support for SCONA VI and pre
sent each of last year’s members
with brochures of last year’s con
ference.
One of the former Mexican dele
gates to SCONA will deliver a
speech to the Monterrey Rotary
Club in behalf of the A&M dele
gates. The speech will explain the
purpose of SCONA and how it
benefits American and Mexican
students and improves relations
between the two countries.
Also, during the five-day visit,
the Aggies will meet former dele
gates to SCONA from the Uni
versity of Nuevo Leon and Mon :
terrey Institute of Technology.
The money donated by the spon
sors in Mqnterrey will be used to
pay travel expenses for SCONA
VI delegates from various Mex
ican universities.
Sam W. Clark, ’ll, independent
consulting engineer in Monterrey,
will help the Aggies make con
tacts while in Monterrey and help
arrange the trip to Mexico.
The SCONA conference will be
held on the campus in the MSC in
December. During the four-day
conference, student from colleges
and universities all over the United
States, Canada and Mexico will
hear speeches by leaders in the
various phaSes of national and in
ternational relations.
Money for the SCONA confer
ences is raised entirely through
the students’ efforts. Funds and
support come from business firms,
foundations and individuals
throughout Texas and Mexico.
Dining Halls
On Campus
World’s Largest
The two college dining halls are
the largest combined eating places
on any campus in the world.
Sbisa Hall was built in 1912 and
can feed 4,000 people at one time.
Both Corps and Civilian students
eat here. It is also the headquar
ters of the A&M food staff.
Duncan Hall was built in 1939
and will feed 3,000 people at one
time. It feeds only Corps students.
It takes about 200 full-time em
ployes and about 200 student wait
ers to prepare and serve the meals.
Even with this cost of labor food
and equipment it is the cheapest
cost for board of any college in the
U. S. today.
It only costs a student $1.50 per
day for three meals, which is paid
at registration time for each se
mester. This money buys the food,
pays the labor, and covers depre
ciation for the dining halls.
The dining halls are self sup
porting. The money paid by each
student is all it receives. There is
no state or federal aid given to
them. The dining halls buy all
their food from government-in
spected companies.
Preparation for breakfast and
lunch begins at 5:30 a.m. each day.
On an average each student re
ceives two eggs or more for break
fast and an average of three-
fourths' of a pound of meat per
day. This is why the food manager
spends 45 percent of the money, for
food on meat only. This may vary,
but no one leaves hungry.
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Examining
James H. Marsh III, who teaches structures
courses in the Division of Architecture and
is a researcher in the Architectural Re
search Division of the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station, demonstrates how the
Invention
steel reinforcing rods are arched to the de
sired shape with the use of steel cables in
the second stage of construction of his new
process.
ARCHITECTURE
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Further enclosing cap be done as
necessary and desired.
The process has four major ad
vantages :
1. The concrete is applied with
out the necessity for conventional
construction forms which results
in substantial savings in materials
Space Lecture
Set Tonight
At 8 in MSC
“The Support of Man in Space
Flight,” will be the subject of a
lecture tonight by a Boeing Air
plane Co. scientist.
The speaker is Dr. Samuel P.
Johnson, formerly a faculty mem
ber of the Department of Plant
Physiology and now with the
Space Medicine Section, Aero-
Space Division of the Boeing firm
at Seattle, Wash.
His talk will be at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Assemb
ly Room.
The lecture will be of special
interest to members of Sigma Xi,
the sponsoring organization, and
to faculty members and graduate
students, according to Joe Sorrels,
professor in the Department of
Civil Engineering and a Sigma Xi
member.
He said the public is invited to
hear Samuels.
The scientist left A&M in 1959
to join the Boeing Company. At
present, he is senior plant. phys
iologist in the space medicine sec
tion.
Johnson attended the Univer
sity of California before receiving
his B.S. degree in 1950 at East
Texas State College. He joined
the faculty of the Department of
Plant Physiology in 1953, where
he received his M.S. and doctorate
degrees in 1954.
He is a member of the Botanical
Society of America, the American
Society for Horticultural Science,
the Agronomy Society, the Amer
ican Society of Plant Physiologists
and Sigma Xi.
and labor and hence, cost.
2. The speed with which this
shell can be formed, for exceeds
the time necessary for. conven
tional systems of construction.
3. The major portion of all work
is performed on the ground sur
face, including the placing of elec
trical conduits and wiring togeth
er of steel and mesh. This pro
vides for a considerably safer op
eration and allows top efficiency
of workers.
4. The architectural shapes and
forms which can be developed
with this system are numerous and
varied.
In development of the process
Marsh has had encouragement and
assistance from personnel of
A&M and partial sponsorship from
the Texas Bureau for Lathing and
Plastering, Inc.
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