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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1920)
Rg —— a_i THE DALY BULLETIN Yol 3. INSPECT R. 0.7. C. The Annual Inspection of R. O. T. C. Units of A. and M. College Com- | | | pleted Yesterday. [this College considering the amount | of Directors in 1912. College Station, Texas, Thursday, April 15, 1920. Number 168 RY HUSBANDRY DEPARTMENT ONE OF LARGEST OF THIS COLLEGE In Five Years This Department Headed by J. W. Ridgway Has Grown From Almost Nothing Into a Highly Developed, Richly Equipped Going Concern. One of the largest departments of | was established by act of the Board Prior to that land value of property owned and |time, the dairy work had been of- The annual inspection of the R. O.| operated and the extent of business |fered by what was then known as the TT. C. units of this completed institution was done is the Dairy Husbandry De- | Agricultural Department, yesterday afternoon and | partment which has been built up by |the present departments of Agron- including the cadet corps feels much relieved |the hard work and genius of J. W.|omy, Dairy Husbandry, Agricultural from their strenuous exercises of yes- | Ridgway, Head of the Department |Engineering and Farm Management. terday and the day before when they | were put through all physical and | military drills in rigorous fashion for | the examination by the board of offi- | cers from the War Department to de- | termine the standing of this College among the military schools of the | country. The inspection board consisting of Colonel William T. Merry, Infantry; Major Emery T. Smith, Feld Artil- lery; and Capt. T. H. Bull, Cavalry, all from the War Department, Wash- ington, D. C., and accompained hy Colonel Leon B. Kromer of the South- ern Department, Fort Sam Houston, arrived here early Tuesday morning from Fort Sam Houston having gone there direct from Washington, D. C. They reported to Colonel C. H. Muller on their arrival here and later conferred with President Bizzell re- garding the policies of the R. O. T. C. units. President Bizzell was very much pleased with the keen interest that the members of the Board mani- fested toward the R. O. T. C. organ- ization. The remainder of the morning and afternoon Tuesday was taken up by a formal review of the cadet corps on the drill ground. The corps were in- spected in full equipment, close or- der, bayonet, physical and extended order drill. The cavalry troop was inspected in close order drill only. This ended at 4 o’clock and the Board on invitation of President Biz- zell attended the ball game at Kyle Field. Yesterday was devoted to an in- spection of field maneuvers. Field problems, Signal Corps work, firing on the range, gallery range, artillery mounted drill and battery firing, was engaged in. The officers were agreeably sur- prised at the College plant and very much pleased with the general effi- ciency of the military organization. From expressions by the members there is no doubt that the Board is well pleased with the cordial co-op- eration existing between the College officials and the commissioned offi- cers stationed here. They left yesterday afternoon and go direct to Mississippi A. and M. College where they will conduct their second inspection of military insti- tutions of the Southern Department. This manner of inspecting military institutions by a board of officers in- stead of by a single officer is a new plan by the War Department that is being tried out this year. In past (Continued on Page 4) Ready to begin—One hour and thirty minutes will be required by the four to milk seventy-five cows. men behind will operate the mechanical will follow and finish the work by hand. since its establishment. Mr. way has given unsparingly his time and effort in working for the de- velopment of his department and justly enjoys the credit that is his for the wonderful growth of the de- partment through the intrumental- ity of his personal service and man- agement. Dairy Husbandry Department The Dairy Husbandry Department Note the clealiness of the barn, Ridg- | cows and milkers. The two machines and the two in front milking It was not until 1914, however, that the dairy herd and dairy farm were placed under supervision of the | Dairy Department. The dairy farm | comprises approximately seven hun- dred acres, of which 150 acres are in cultivation, the remainder being un- developed pasture. The farm activ- ities of the department are devoted | exclusively to the production of hay, | silage and forage crops. Left to right—‘Moonlight,’ Holstein cows owned by the Dairy Dept. and on yearly test and every one of them has ‘Posch,’ milked better than eight gallons of milk daily. ‘Queen’ and ‘Sunlight. All four of these The cow in front is referred to in the accompanying article as having milked 97.3 pounds (or about 12 gallons) inone day. The Dairy Husbandry Department in connection with the instructional work of about three hundred and fifty students in the production and manufacture of dairy products, op- erates a model dairy farm and creamery. The dairy farm represents the production end and the cream- ery represents the manufacturing end of the Department. The Department furnishes all milk used by the Mess Hall which through this school year has amounted to ap- proximately one hundred and twenty-five gallons per day. The butter is sold locally—in College Station and in Bryan. 2 The Dairy Herd The dairy herd, according to the 1919 inventory, consisted of thirty pure bred Holsteins, twenty-seven grade Holsteins, sixty-eight pure bred Jerseys, twenty-two grade Jer- seys, and twelve pure bred Ayr- shires, with an inventory valuation of $25,625.00. This represents an increase of over sixty percent on the value of the herd during the past five years. This increase is due mostly to improved types and a large increase in the number of pure bred animals. The Department began Registry of Merit testing in 1916. Since that time a number of Jersey cows have qualified to enter the Registry of Merit. A few records are as follows: College 269, 11590.2 pounds of milk and 556.4 pounds butter fat. College 226, 10829.3' pounds of milk and 489.6 pounds butter fat. Nobleman’s Lillis, 8,770.9 pounds of milk and 524 pounds butter fat, (former state champion, 2 year old). In addition to the above yearly records, the College has made several creditable seven-day records on Hol- stein cows, and lately has placed four Holstein cows on yearly test that give promise of making excel- lent records. One of the cows, Sun- light Colantha Pietertje has made, since the beginning of her test, Oc- tober 1, and including her March record, 13,865 pounds of milk and 520 pounds butter. She will finish her year’s record, if nothing unfore- seen happens, with close to 25,000 pounds of milk and approximately 1,000 pounds of butter. This will give her state and southwestern Championship, Holstein Division, and should crowd very closely the present state Champion Jersey cow in butter production. She milked as high as 97 pounds daily and is won- derfully persistent in production. As the Department practically had no funds for the improvement of the herd, but few females could be pur- chased. It was, therefore, necessary to secure the very best bulls as herd sires. The present Jersey senior herd sire is Gamboge’s Raleigh. He is by Gamboge’s Knight, a bull with forty-eight Registry of Merit daugh- ters, and noted throughout the coun- try as a sire of both type and pro- duction. Among his daughters is one National Dairy Show Grand Champion and a number that have produced better than 600 pounds of butter fat in a year. Gamboge’s Raleigh’s dam is a 600 pound daughter of Raleigh’s Fairy Boy. Raleigh’s Fairy Boy is noted as a >
