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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1919)
VOL. I ollege Station, Texas, Saturday, April 12,1919 No. 132 PETORESTRATION ‘THREE TEAMS 10 COMPLETE SOIL OF TEXASSOUGHT ENTER kl EET SURVEY PLANNED SCHEMES FOR PRODUCING NEW | | | EXPERIMENT STATION WILL CO- GROWTH ON CUT-OVER LANDS OPERATE WITH U. 8S. BUREAU ARE BEING WORKED ouT ALLEN ACADEMY WILL SEND IN, COMPLETING THE BY SIECKE | ATHLETES TO COMPETE WITH ih TASK FRESHMEN AND UPPER- CLASSMEN WORK 1S FUNDAMENTAL pi TWO PLANS CONSIDERED! | A fhree cornered track meet will be One Involves Co-operation of Lum-|staged on Kyle Field this afternoon Knowledge of Nature of Ground Es- ber Concerns and Private Own- | beginning shortly after 3 o'clock when sential to Successful Agricul Jers and Other State and Fed- Allen Academy will send a team to tare, Director Young- : : blood Say eral Ownership | compete in the meet formerly sched- | oon, pays ER | uled for the - Freshmen and ‘upper- | Following the assurance of co-oper- claszmen of the College. The Fresh- | Plans for a complete survey of the ation from Col. Henry. S. Graves, | 220 showed that they had some real | state of Texas, in co-operation with chief of the U. S. Forest Service, and stars among their number last Friday | the U. S. Bureau of Soils, are an- | and Saturday and the other classes nounced by Directon B. Youngblood of J. CG. Peters, chief of State Co-opera- | ; tion of the same service, E. O. Siecke | WH be hard pushed to uphold their) the Experiment Station. Ten years ctate forester, is proceeding to work | H€nity Frazier, Weir, Patterson, | will be required to carry out the work OE | out plans for the re-forestration of ape oh Reynolds, W. L. Smith, Ehlert, | in its entirety, but this will be time | least a good portion of the 8,000,000 | Borisie, Morris and Hoag are among | well spent in that a knowledge of the | those on the Freshman string who | character of the soil is necessary .for acres of cut-over lands in Texas. These / : | are expected to accumulate points for re best results in agriculture, Mr. | lands are poorly fitted for the most | .\ | «mic? J A A 4 | the Fk ish’l iy | ; part for either agriculture or livestock | Youngblood says. [ But the upper-classmen have Jonas, . a Reconnaissance Surveys, which are raising, Mr. Siecke says, and the need Garth, Hugon, McQuillen and a large on) for more timber makes it an economic | number of others to uphold their cause | not so intensive, will be made of ‘the remainder of the western portion of necessity that new crops of timber be | and the youngsters will have to show ! Gil produced upon them. | unusual class to beat them. Just what the stale, while that work in the east- ern portion will be carried on as be- It will ‘take from forty to sixty | Allen Academy will send out is not | etn i 1 years to grow another crop of timber’ known but they will have a good num- Si oh or Hl i LA wil nce a sat IE ; fitable | PCT of athletes on the field and they 7 omg cod tne ta y Winter an to the point where it will be pro ot will be well worth seeing jsunine of each year will be devoted to for marketing, however, and as it may | il Oley / a 2 work in the eastern portion of the ns . ; . | Kyeryone 1s invited to be present. ; : be difficult to interest private capital | state and the summer fo the western in a proposition that will be so long | portion, the latter being too cold for in producing revenue, the suggestion STEPHENVILLE MAN LOOKS | the outdoor existence lived by the soil of the co-operation of the federal and | OVER PLANS FOR HEATING surveyors to be comfortable except state governments in . taking ‘over PLANT | during the summer months. these lands and growing a new crop of | In Western Texas 33 counties have timber on them is receiving favorable Prof. E. A. Funkhouser, instructor | already been surveyed and ten par- consideration at the hands of a good in manual training at John Tarleton | tially so at:a cost of $70,000, while the many people. This represents a pret- Agricultural College, Stephenville, cost of the work in Eastern Texas has ty advanced step, however, and Mr. | was here yesterday going Over the | been $125,000. It is estimated that Siecke believes it will require a great ‘plans of the new steam heating plant | it will require four years time and deal of publicity showing the economic | at John Tarleton with the Architect- | $50,000 to complete the work in West- advantage such a scheme would be to | ural department of the College. The ern Texas and ten years time and the state before the people will sanc- | new plant will provide quarters for | $200,000 to complete the work in the tion legislation to that end. "the instruction in manual training. | eastern portion of the state. When In response to an inquiry from Mr. | Funds for the erection and equipment all the state has been surveyed a com- Peters as to how his department could | of the plant were made ‘available | plete soil bulletin and map of the co-operate in pushing the interests of | through the emergency appropriation | state will be issued. One half or pos-. forestry in Texas Mr. Siecke sug- | bill passed at the recent regular ses- sibly more of the expense will be borne (Continued on Page 4) [sion of the legislature. ; | (Continued on Page 4)
