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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1919)
LARGER AID 0 tl | the ranches will still carry a normal "will give special study to the prob- ' with a view to aiding the ,goat and P i FARMER PLANNED (Continued From Page 1) amount of cattle and thus avoid the disaster that overtook many stockmen during the past three years. Nor will the goat and sheep men of the state be overlooked. It is prob: able the special session of the legis- lature will authorize the establishment of a wool scouring plant at the station here and in that connection Mr. Eliot lem of marketing wool and mohair sheep raisers of West Texas in get- ting a fair price for“their products. Mr. Eliot will go to Washington EXPERIENCED ENGINEER AD- DED TO C. E. DEPART- MENT 2 ) Byron Bird, graduate of Iowa State College and post graduate of the Uni- versity of Illinois, as well as a young | man of several years practical experi- ence as an engineer, has been added to the Civil Engineering faculty and has arrived to take up his work here, Dean J. C. Nagle announced yesterday. Mr. Bird graduated from Fort Dodge, Iowa, High School in 1907, took his B. S. degree in civil engineering at Towa State College in 1912, and fol- lowing a year of post graduate work in the University of Wisconsin took his civil engineering degrel i in 1915. He taught school for a year in the rural schools” of Iowa, spent two years as draftsman and assistant engineer with a large firm of consulting engineers in Chicago, gave half of his time for next week in response to an invita- | a year to studies and half to his work tion from Colonel Ousley, assistant as research assistant in hydraulic en- secretary of agriculture, to assist in’ gineering in the University of Wis- outlining the projects to be undertaken consin, was for two years assistant | by the new Bureau of Farm Economics | engineer in the preparation of designs, . riculture. rural economics, Mr. Youngblood says, "and he believes of the U. S. Department of Ag-| | The work of the sta-| tion here will be affiliated with that of the new bureau. The ~ Texas station will be the first in the country to launch out into the field of it will: ‘result in so rounding out the work of the station as to enable it to serve practically every need of the farmer and ranch- | man. “The appointment of Mr. Eliot rep- pesents the first step in a large pro- | gram of studies in the problem of | rural econontics in Texas which will | | be made by the College and its sev- | eral departments”, President Bizzell declared in making the announcement. | Mr. Eliot will assume his new duties | May 1. For the past several months £ he has been doing special educational work in farm management with the | convalescent soldiers at Camp Travis. BTS 5 \ BAYLOR PLANS CAMPUS BEAUT- IFUL George Kessler of Kansas City, well | ‘known landscape expert, recently vis- | ited Baylor University at the instance | of Business Manager E. W. Provence. A full map of the grounds was turned over to him to enable him to work-out © a permanent plan for future improve- ment and construction. © A number of new buildings are in prospect for Bay- lor and the grounds and campus in general are expected to take on new beauty under Mr. Kessler’s guidance. plans, specifications and estimates for a $25,000,000 flood protection project |: S in the Miami river valley in Ohio, and [3] | from June 1917 to June 1918, was with % | the construction division of the Sig- ‘nal Corps as assistant superintendent | . . . ~on construction of aviation camps and then accepted a commission in the air | service and was placed in command of | the air service squadron at Van Couver ‘Barrack s, Washigton. He comes to College highly recommended by the . Wisconsin authorities. TE GOOD SEASON AND LARGE WHEAT CROPS PREVAIL IN WEST TEXAS Abundant rains have fallen over | West Texas and the largest wheat acreage that has ever been known in ' that section is very promising, reports A. B. Conner, vice-director of the Ex- periment Station, who has just: re- | turned from a ten-days trip to the sub- I stations at Lubbock, Spur and Chil- licothe. He found that 50,000 acres of | wheat are in prime condition in the immediate vicinity of Chillicothe with {a prospect at present of a yield of twenty bushels per acre. HE TIT pe N. gT H BENNIE GARRITY IS IN COBLENZ Bennie Garrity, president of the | Freshman class in the fall of 1917, is a member of a U. S. Signal Corps unit in Coblenz, Germany, according to a letter from him to Thomas F. 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