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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1920)
Sunday, April 18, 1920. THE DAILY BULLETIN ” published each morning, except Monday, by the Publicicy Department of the Agri- euitural and Mechanical College of Texas Uficial Publication of the College. Dis- tributed free to all students, instructors and Campus resiaents. Advertising rates fur- » shed on application. Office Room 113, first floor Academic Building WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL President of the College FRANK C. MARTIN Secretary of Publicity fever tick, will deliver one of his high- ly characteristic and interesting lec- tures on the “Eradication of the Tex- as Fever Tick.” Demonstrations and lectures have also been arranged for the Agronomy Experiment Station by expert plant breeders, agronomists, entomologists, etc., and at the Feed- ing and Breeding Station by swine husbandmen, dairy specialists, poul- try specialists, etc. An interesting feature of the enter- tainment will be a moving picture showing the actual work and results accomplished by the boys pig club work in Williamson county. This pic- ture has been shown in a number of places and has been pronounced a de- cided success. No doubt the $1,500 rooster, at the College poultry plant, as well as the Buffalo, Brahma cattle, bear, deer, etc., at the station will prove quite an interesting attraction, while the Grand Review by the cadet corps in celebration of San Jacinto Day and in honor of the to every patriotic Texas citizen. Music by the College band, student stunts and other forms of entertain- ment have been arranged for evening hours, so that there should not be a dull moment during the con- ference. In fact, every practical ar- rangement has been completed for the entertainment of the Banker mer Conference, and the indications are that it will be an event long to be remembered by farmers of this state, as well as the students and residents of the College | campus. rl te A CAFE OPERATOR NAMED U. S. VICE CONSUL IN TURKEY Wichita Falls, Texas, April 16.— James Keely, who has recently been | engaged in operating a cafe at Wag- | ‘goner City, will leave shortly for Con- | stantinople to serve the United States as vice consul. just come. County last year after his discharge from the aviation service and became | part owner of the oil town efting | house after working as a barber, car- | penter and shoe repairer fields. the cafe one is a Yale graduate and the other is the owner of uished service medal. — PENNANTS dl * ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. + go COLLEGE UP TO NOON A + x YESTERDAY ; PE 1soa |] THE POULTRY FARM OF THE COLLEGE (Continued from Page 1) pigeons are all of the racing type, are well trained and of the kind uszd as message carriers during the wav. Yearly all these birds have fine rec- ords for long distance flights in rec- ord time. One of these, a cock bird, registered No. OK 2658, has record races of 200 to 500 miles as a young bird yearling, and as an old bird, an- other cock bird, Registered No. LLB3859, has a very brilliant pedigree tracing back to some of the first flyers of Belgium. All the homers have years of fine breeding, and fly- ing in their pedigree. There are about hundred birds on the farm belonging to the College and about one hundred and seven elk, | also | visitors | should prove a valuable drawing card | the | Far- the bankers and | His appointment has | Keeley came to Wichita | Of the other two owners of | | other | a disting- | cockerels ilar to these mentioned. | The Third Texas National Egg | Laying Contest is conducted on the | grounds eighty in the Egg Laying Contest. | All the S. C. White Leghorns of which there are about 400, are trap- | nested every day in the year and {the records thus made are used in the breeding work the years ing. The College | fine hens and cockerels that | ing | this year. Hens numbers 7, 20, 21, 24, 36 and 48 and others of breedings are birds with | 200 eggs and better in and are now in their laying year and still doing fine. number 48 is remarkable | that she is one of the first hens the College ever owned and is now in | ner sixth laying: year. These land others of similiarly good bree.l- ing are being mated this year to very owns some very are be- records of their pullet | year Hen in the fact birds | finely | developing flocks of high production. | Among the male birds used in the | breeding work, cockerel No. 3519-S is yory fine. His dam is G-781 who 28 eggs her first year and 168 eggs in her second. His sire and his both have for a dam, hen No. a very famous individual, one of the really few 1000 egg hens in the world. This A-27, during the | eighth year of her life laid as fol- lows: 240 eggs, 222, 202 155, 168 139 [61 and 1 or 1187 eggs in seven years and 1188 in eight years. His great grand-dam on his dam’s side is Hen No. E-248 with a record of 302 eggs in her pullet year. Two hundred egg 'blood enters his pedigree every gen- eration for over five generations. A Barred Plymouth Rock is another fine individual with a 200 egg record laid 2 dam | a | A-2T7, in the oi [breeding in every generation for over five generations. The College owns Single Comb White Leghorn and S. C. Rhode Island Red cockerels of high breeding sim- of this department. In We have a good supply of College | this contest breeders of the country pennants and comic pictures which we are selling at before-the-war | prices. These were bought before the war by a former A. and M. stu- dent. They are of the good old quality and are low priced. ALSMEYER BROS, 167 10 Ross. | send a pen of their best pullets which | are carefully trapnested and record- ed for twelve full months at the end of which time they are returned to the owners with their certified rec- ords and are then used as the basis for breeding stock by them. Re- ports are published monthly of the like | stock buildings . bred cockerels in the hope of | Y our Spring Suit is waiting for you among a great collection of up-to-the-minute styles in young men’s clothes, at | A. M. Waldrop & Co. production of every bird and sent to about 3000 breeders in the State, a number of periodicals, journals MONDAY | E E | and newspapers in this and other | \Y N NG states. This year twenty-two pens | of birds are entered by breeders in | E. O. Siecke, State Forester Will Read different parts of Texas and two a Paper on “Some Aspects of pens by breeders outside the state, | Texas Forestry Problem.” one in Maryland and one in Louis- iana. Each month the breeders are | sent certified reports of the per- formance of their birds and the win- ners are given awards of merit which are certificate prizes stating the win- nings made by the party for the | The regular meeting of the Science | Seminar will be held in the Physics | Lecture Room of the Civil Engineer- | ing Pins on Monday, April 19, at | 8:00 p. At this meeting Professor | E. O. Steakic. State Forester, will give | month. Much interest is manifest- | «SQ As f th ed by breeders all over the state and | PaPer on ome Sbects of the [the South in this contest. It has| Texas Forestry Problem.” All per- | done much to stimulate good interest follow- | used in the breeding experiments | | sons interested in the subject are in- in better bred poultry. | vited to be present. Sr —— The farm is fenced with good sub- ) " ; i | : ; : . 5 : FOR SALE — One pair of white | stantial fencing with steel posts| : ra EE win shoes, size 7-C. 47 Milner. | throughout. All the buildings are ty well built, of good appearance and] = hn . PI LOST — Folding purse contain- 3 “which has been developed from the fourth | The total value of the and equipment is $18,000.00, a f well painted. : : SI ling a small amount of silver on the | Campus. Return to Fiscal Office. tl _—t CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK over great deal of profit of the farm. The farm is used primarily for : . 3 Sunday, April 18. student instruction and demonstra- ot oo “is ; : : Bible School, 9:15, Guion Hall. tion. Some time is devoted to ex- . ee: . SE ; .| Morning Services, 10:50, Guion | periment work and at the precent Hall ‘ : : . Hall. time experiments dealing with the 2 -ir . a . Y. M. C. A. Chapel Service 6:30 inheritance of egg production, the : : : ; : 4 Y. M. C. ‘A. Chapel. | effect of date of hatching on win- Baptist Services, Guion Hall, 2:30. 2:30 ter and first year roduction and Sear e | Methodist Services, Y Chapel, some work with feeding are being Presbyterian Services, E. E. Bldg. {eohducted, A record of the feed 2.30 consumption of all the breeds and PERE : y a p Christian Services, Airdome, 2:30. varieties are kept neatly and the | Episcopal Services, Room 10, C. E. Bldg., 9 o’clock. Mass for Campus Catholics, Room | trapnest production of about Cid | birds is kept daily. The trap nest-| ing work is very valuable but re- . ; a x 19, 'C. E. Bldg.. 9:30. quires constant and regular atten- : : Monday, April 19. tion and requires a large amount of : . ial edi {Look t Ti Science Seminar, Physics Lecture recording and book registering ne | Ap . g g g- Room, C. E. Building, 8 o’clock. chicks from the best pens are care- | 5 2 vs. Aggies fully pedigreed at hatching time | Kyle Field, 4:15. that an exact record of its breeding | Tuesday, April 20. and parentage is known. Birds thus | Baseball game, 8. M. U pedigreed are very valuable and | Kyle Field eT Hu open the way for obtaining informa- f aT tion as to the inheritance of desir-| Sedsdesdesdoedscdscfordododeidocdorforiocfocioriocfociosiecdociortods able characteristics. When in Bryan EAT | Baseball game, S. M. U. SO vs. Aggies (Editor's Note—This is the fourth of a | series of articles to appear within the next | few days introducing various Departments | | about which the hundreds of farmers and | bankers coming to College next week will | > want At the New York Restaurant Boyden for Men Wiichert for Women Not only the best for the price, but the best shoes at any price. to know much). oe . Shirts, Hosiery, Underwear, Etc. Same superior grade and quality. GIBBS & HARE KS a a
