THE Dairy BULLETIN
 Nomber 85
fm LUMBER
“FORESTS WILL
BE EXHAUSTED
3 4 Not enough Pine Timber Left Stand-
b. est News issued monthly under
ing to Build Required Oil Der-
ricks in Texas
The latest issue of the Texas For-
the
auspices of the State Department of
PF Forestry and Texas Forestry Asso-
P ciation at College Station space
given to the news that:
S
“Recent reliable data from the
North Texas oil fields indicates that
bl i here are one million acres of proven
¢ § land and that one million derricks
‘will eventually be built to develop
‘these fields. At a conservative esti-
fF mate 28,000 feet of lumber will be
b less than 10,000 feet per acre.
required for each derrick, or a to-
1 tal of 2,800,00 feet. The remaining
virgin pine timber in Texas is less
4 than 2,500,000 acres and it will yield
% | other words Texas does not have suf-
4 "will probably want to keep right on |
ficient pine timber left to supply the
! North Texas oil fields with lumber
! let alone the rest of its citizens who
1 PF building houses, barns, stores, ete.
~ “Mr. George M. Cornwall, Editor
fof ‘The Timberman’, Portland, Ore-
§ gon, recently spent two days with
the Secretary at College Station. Mr.
ornwall is making an investigation
regard to the remaining supplies
Jof pine: timber in Texas and the
‘Bother southern states so he can in-
Piorm the Pacific Coast lumbermen
low soon the southern lumber will
cease to compete with them in the
Hg ‘north central portion of the United
es
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States and how rapidly the market
for Pacific Coast lumber will develop
‘in Texas and adjacent states. Even
| though people from a long way off
‘can see that Texas will in a few
| vears be compelled to import thous-
|} ands of car loads of lumber from
§ Washington and Oregon, and
shoulder a huge freight bill, many
of our Texas citizens still think we
have endless forest resources and
that there is no need to put the non-
agricultural cut-over lands of Tex-
a to work growing another crop of
‘lumber trees.’
. “Mr. J. S. Holmes, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, Secretary of the
| Southern Forestry Congress has re-
quested the State Forester to urge
a full attendance at the second an-
~ tual meeting of the Congress which
Will be held in New Orleans Janu-
ary 28, 29 and 30, 1920. It is plan-
! ted to devote the first day of this
| Meeting to a discussion of the needs
4 of the
South for forestry, with
| Special reference to the timberland
ge | licy for privately owned lands now
? being proposed by the Federal gov-
emment. The United States Forest-
er, Colonel Henry S. Graves, will be
Present to give the views of the For-
| &t Service on this important ques-
tion, while leading men in other lines
Vill be asked to present the subject
from the points of view of the state,
In |
SPECIALIST IN
SWINE BREEDING
A. L. Ward Becomes Swine Special-
ist With Extension Service in
Place of Edwin Houston
A. L. Ward has arrived to fill the
position of Swine Specialist of the
Extension Service vacated by Edwin
Houston,
Mr.
breeder,
resigned.
graduating from A. and M.
in 1910, and is also seeretary-treas-
of the
' Association. Speaking of his visit
to Bell county, Mr. Ward said:
“I had heard so much about the in-
terest in hogs in Bell county that
when I accepted the position at A.
and M. I asked if I might not begin
work there with those people—com-
ing that way to look over the situa-
| tion and see what they really had.
I must confess that I am agreeably
surprised. They have and I am sure
other counties have the right sort of
pure blood stuff and lots of it, and
just to keep on going to it is all that
is necessary to make this section the
hog center of the south in a few
more years.”
urer Texas Swine Breeders
| In company with Demonstration
| Agent Mervin, Mr. Ward visited the
(leaders of every pig club in the
county except the one at Rogers,
and that club would have been vis-
ited if the roads had been passable.
Further discussing the hog in-
dustry, Mr. Ward recalled that there
is no reason why the south should
not lead the north in hog raising,
since there are many natural ad-
vantages in this section not enjoyed
in the north, and he further stressed
the probability of the heavy demand
for meat for the next several years—
due to the shortage brought on by
the war. He observed, however, that
there is always a ready market (with
high prices) for purebred stock, re-
gardless of whether it is hogs, cat-
tle, sheep or anything else.
ee
One half of all rubber imported
to this country goes into automobile
tires.
the lumberman and the local lani-
owner. On the second day a more
general program will be carried out,
consisting of discussions upon such
subjects as the acquisition by the
Federal Government of forest lands
for the production of timber, as well
as for the protection of streams;
state forestry organizations and pol-
icies; forest fire prevention; the re-
lation of grazing to timber produc-
tion on non-agricultural lands; the
future of the naval stores industry,
ete. The program for the third day
has not yet been outlined, but it will
nrobably be given over to sectional
meetings, or to field excursions, or
both.”
ATEN CHANGES
ARRIVES HERE
| College Station.
. \
Ward is a Lamar county hog |
IN THE BASKET-
BALL SCHEDULE
Athletic Office Announces Unavoid- |
able Changes and Gives Points |
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on Games
Below is a copy of the revised
basketball schedule for the season:
9-10—Baylor
|
Jan. University at |
Jan. 17—Simmons College at Col-
lege Station.
27-28—S.M.U.
Jan. at
Station.
College
Jan. 30-31—Rice Institute at
Houston, Texas. |
Feb. 6-T—Texas * University at
Austin, Texas. |
Feb. 9-10—S.M.U. at Dallas,
Texas.
Feb. 11-12—Baylor at Waco, Tex- |
as.
Feb. 20-21—
lege Station.
Feb. 27-28—Texas University at
College Station.
Louisiana will not play at A. and
M. this season. A. and M. and Louis-
iana were very anxious to arrange at
least one and probably two games
but Rice was unable to play Louis- |
iana on the dates that Stroud want- |
ed to bring his team from across |
the river, and because they could not
make arrangements for other games
the A. and M. games were cancelled.
All the games except the Simmons
College game are Conference games
and count in the standing for Con-
ference honors.
For the mid-week dates the time
of the games will be 7:30 p. m., so
that the cadets can get back to the
dormitories by 9 o’clock. For most
of the Saturday dates a double-
header will be arranged if possible,
the A. and M. Scrub team playing
in the curtain raiser. The big game
on Saturday nights will be called at
8 o’clock and the curtain raiser at 7.
Season reserve seats are now being
sold and are going fast. By getting
a season reserved ticket one is pro-
tected for all the games and is in-
sured of a seat, no matter how large
the crowd may be.
Baylor University is coming strong |
with five of their last year’s players
on the team and one of their 1917
team.
Rice Institute at Col- |
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FEDERAL STUDENTS TO
ORGANIZE IN BRYAN
There will be a meeting Saturday
night at 7:30 of the Federal Stu-
dents in the Carnegie Library at
Bryan for the purpose of becoming |
better acquainted not only among |
themselves but with the people of
Bryan. Married students are re-
quested to bring their wives, and
single ones their lady friends.
This will be a business meeting.
All Federal students whether resid-
ing in town or on the Campus are
States,
NATION'S CHIEF
ONCE COACH OF
WESLEYAN TEAM
Helped Football I Eleven Figure Suec-
cessful System of Attack
in 1889.
Few people can picture Woodrow
Wilson, the President of the United
as a football coach, or as a
college professor leaving his classes
to act as a cheer leader for the stu-
dents.
But there are some Weslyan men
of the late 80s and early ’90s who will
probably always vividly remember
him in this capacity.
As professor at Wesleyan from
1888 to 1890 he made his mark in
| Wesleyan football and with the aid
| of Seward V. Coffin, ’89, and Frank
| D. Beattys, '85, a New York publisher,
| worked out a new system of offensive
| tactice which placed Wesleyan on the
| football map. Football tactics un-
derwent a great change about that
time and these three men mapped out
a scheme whereby the rush line was
constructed so that the men stood
side by side, about as today, while
the backs were brought nearer to the
rush line.
The quick line plunge and the
double and criscross passes, were also
worked out. Football, of course, was
in its infancy in those days, and while
these plays seem old now, they were
considered innovations at that time.
So well did Prof. Wilson and his
assistants succeed in their work that
Wesleyan walloped the University of
Pennsylvania, while William Henry
Hail of South Willington, later a
State Senator, brought further re-
nown to Wesleyan by sending a drop
kick over the Yale goal posts, thus
making five points for Wesleyan, a
field goal counting five points in
those days. Amhurst was trimmed
by the 1889 team, 39 to 0, while
Trinity was taken into camp, 6 to 0.
John W. Edgerton, now secretary of
the faculty at the Yale Law School,
was a member of the Trinity eleven.
On October 30, 1889 the Wesley-
an team won a notable victory over
Williams. Hampden Park in Spring-
field was dedicated on that day and
these two teams were selected to
play the opening contest. Irving
Garfield, son of President Garfield,
was in the Williams line-up, but the
Purple went down to defeat, 20 ta
17.
The good news was telegraphed
back to Middletown and when the
[team arrived late that night the
whole college as well as many of the
| townspeople, were at the railroad
station to meet the boys. Governor
Coffin at that time a State Senator,
whose son had been assisting Prof.
Wilson with the coaching, bought
fireworks for the “crowd, and’
there are some oldtimers in the city
who remember the celebration that
invited.
night, even to the present day.