11 B66 WEIGHING
Vol 3.
THE DAILY BULLETIN
College Station, Texas, Thursday, January 15, 1920.
| Number 90
THREE POUNDS
LAID ON FARM
3 High Cost of Breakfast Eggs Solved
is one and
wide, two and one
hen or in an incubator.
~ hatching process.
at Last—College Experiments
Prove a Success
Professor T. J. Conway has in his
- possession an egg which he offers
to give any family which will prom-
ise to eat its total bulk at one sit-
¢ ting, allowing them the privilege of
choosing the form which they will
have it cooked and served.
It was laid by one of the birds at
the Poultry Farm and he claims it
is the only one of its kind ever pro-
duced at A. and M. or in this part of
the State even. It weighs exactly
forty eight ounces the
weight of two dozen hen eggs, meas-
equivalent
ures fifteen and a quarter inches
shortest circumference, seventeen
inches longest eircumference, six in-
ches in length and four and one-
eighth inches in width. This size
will be made comprehensible by bear-
ing in mind that the average hen egg
three-quarters inches
quarter inches
long, and weighs two ounces.
It was found Monday morning in
the ostrich pen and from the way
the ostriches fought to retain pos-
session of it eredit has been generally
accorded them for this prize, at the
expense of the records of the ‘“‘bid-
dies” who until this time have been
credited with all such products.
The egg is perfectly shaped bear-
ing out the form of a hen egg. It is
ivory white, smooth and slick. From
the size one would be prone to think
that very few would be laid by an
ostrich in a season, but the records
examined on this point show that a
good one will often lay in a year
one hundred eggs, which is approxi-
mately twenty four hundred hen
eggs. Otherwise one good ostrich
hen will lay as many equal sized
eggs as twelve good hens, taking a
whole year as an average. In ad-
dition an ostrich will live thirty or
forty years. They do not breed un-
til about the fourth year. The birds
here are now eight years of age.
Now that the breeding season has
begun the bird is expected to lay 2--
tinuously for quite a while. When fif-
teen or twenty have been laid they
will be set either under the ostrich
The hen is
able to cover that number of eggs in
a nest made usually in soft sand. The
female sits on them during the day
and the male assumes her position
at night, thus outdoing chanticleer
by claiming half-interest in the
It takes from
forty-two to fifty days for the eggs
to hatch, and they incubate at a tem-
1 perature of 98 to 100 degrees Faren-
~ heit, which is from three to five de-
grees lower than the
temperature
required to hatch hen eggs.
~The little chicks may be reared
THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY CLUB TO
AlD SURVEYORS
Ten Members of the Club Want to
Meet All College Officials In-
tending to Go There
The Rio Grande Valley Club held
a meeting Monday night with H. M.
Eliot Chief of the Division of Farm
and Ranch Economics of the Experi-
ment Station to consult with him con-
cerning the work that he is to do in
the Valley in the next few months.
Ten members, all of whom reside
in or near the principal towns of the
1 Valley were present and demonstrat-
ed a most laudable spirit of progres-
siveness and co-operation in the
plans that they suggested for making
A. and M. better known to the pros-
pective students and farmers In
need of expert information and in-
struction in that region.
B. Youngblood, Director of the
Experiment Station has arranged
with B. E. Sheppard of Donna, Tex-
as, to call a meeting of the farmers
of the Rio Grande Valley, Monday,
January 19, in the school house
there, and they will formulate plans
for conducting a survey to deter-
mine the most profitable type of
farming for that section of the state,
in co-operation with the Texas Ex-
periment Station and the two
bureaus of Farm Economics and
Markets of the U.'S. Dept. of Agr in his present capacity, but he retain-
The fact that Mr. Eliot is to leave ‘ed the nominal directorship of the
this week for the Valley to make pre- |
culture.
liminary arrangements for the sur-
vey was announced a few days ago.
These enterprising young men hav-
ing the interest of their people and
their country in mind as well as in
heart requested this meeting with
Mr. Eliot. They talked freely with
him about existing conditions in the
Valley, explaining every peculiarity
known to them and their ideas of
plans they wanted followed by of-
ficials who went there from this Col-
lege. It was an ideally beneficent
attitude on their part, showing that
they were prompted by two things,
pride in their College and pride in
their homes.
No preparation had been made
previous to the meeting and hence
no definite plans were outlined, but
the boys let it be known plainly that
they were ready with their own help
and of their people and friends at
home to aid in any enterprise bene-
ficial to their section of the State.
They ask the privilege of meeting
with any College official who con-
templates making a visit there, and
assure him a warm welcome on ar-
rival if they are permitted to do so.
either by hand or allowed to run with
the parent birds.
The male bird is very savage now
and Professor Conway advises any-
one who goes there to use caution in
approaching the pen, as he is capable
to inflict a dangerous wound.
CLARENCE OUSLEY
WILL ARRIVE IN
TEXAS THIS WEEK
Will Aid in the Campaign to Place
the 1920 Farm Program in Hands
of the Farmers.
Clarence Ousley, Assistant Secre-
tary Agriculture of the United States
will arrive in Texas this week to make
a number of speeches in- different
parts of the State on the 1920 Farm
Program adopted at the Waco meet-
ing of the State Council of Agricul-
ture on December 2.
In doing this Mr. Ousley is show-
ing deference to the expressed wish
of Director T. O. Walton last winter
that he should come to Texas and
help to promote the adoption of this
program by explaining and encour-
aging the use of it to the farmer's
organizations of this country.
He will arrive in Houston Sunday,
and on Monday will go to El Campo
where he will deliver his first address
on that day. He will be in Marlin
on the 20th. After that date he will
be in Texarkana, Marshal, Palestine,
Paris and probably other points but
his original speaking dates made for
these places have been changed, and
it is uncertain just when he will be
at each place, this to be decided when
he arrives.
After the declaration of war in
1917, Mr. Ousley went to Washington
Extension Service here until last
spring when present Director T. O.
Walton was elected.
Mr. Ousley has expressed his de-
sire to spend one day at the College
during his visit to Texas and will ac-
cording to the opinion of his friends
here indubitably do so, but the exact
date like the others is indefinite.
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A. AND M. STUDENTS ENDORSE
A. MATHER HILBURN
“Hilburn is excellent. He keeps
your interest from the beginning to
the end of his program. While you
are busy laughing, the character be-
fore you changes.” G. W. Smith.
“I have known Hilburn for the
past fifteen years and have witnessed
several of his performances, every
succeeding program being better
than the former one. I was in Am-
MUCH INTEREST
MANIFESTED IN
VOTING TUESDAY
Than One Thousand Votes
Polled Out of Possible
Two Thousand
More
One thousand and six votes were
cast in the Peace Treaty referendum
Tuesday, all but 107 of this number
being cast by students.
Roughly estimated, there were
about 2,000 people connected in var-
ious ways with the College who were
eligible to vote. The number polled
is considered remarkable, and we’l
above the percentage recorded by
other schools from which reports
have been received.
Proposition 1, which provides for
the ratification of the peace treaty
and League of Nations without res-
ervations, was the most popular,
drawing 68 votes from the faculty
and 478 from the students, a total
of 546.
Proposition two, which voiced op-
position to ratification of the League
of Nations in any form, found only
four supporters among the faculty
members and 36 among the students.
Proposition three, favoring ratifi-
cation with the Lodge reservations
also found four supporters in the
faculty, and 65 in the student body.
The fourth proposition, which ad-
vocated a compromise between the
Lodge and Democratic reservations
in order to facilitate ratification of
the treaty, was favored by 31 fac-
ulty members and 320 students, a
total of 351.
arillo when he gave an entertain-
ment which was the best of its kind.
There was not a person who unfa-
vorably criticised his performances.
I believe that every student who
sees and hears Hilburn will not re-
gret the price of admission. In my
estimation, he is a wonder.”—Geo.
D. Holt.
In a recent letter from M. C. Tur-
ner of Dallas, is the following about
Me. Hilburn: “You can guarantee
Mr. Hilburn to please everybody. He
is a mighty good man. .
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LOST—Bunch of about 6 keys,
with a key to my room M.77-101001
G. H. Finder please return to Mil-
ner 77. 90
Proposition 1
Proposition 2
Proposition 3
Proposition 4
Total
Grand Total ...
Total Registration
VOTE ON PEACE TREATY.
CIRCE ST TE TRE EE JC SE
CR EE TE I I I
CII I UR SC JRC RT RT TE ICT I)
Faculty Students
68 478
4 36
4 65
31 320
107 899
RR Si SEY awe 006
Ee TI ESI Re RIAN 1,613
oy SPREE Cre eee 400
Faculty and Employes .
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