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THE DALY BULLETIN
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INSPECT R. 0.7. C.
The Annual Inspection of R. O. T. C.
Units of A. and M. College Com-
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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
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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
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