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ulletin Vol. V. College Station, Texas, Thursday, April 13, 1922. No. 157 AGGIE-LONGHORN GAMES THIS WEEK Aggies Should be in Tip-Top Form As Result of Wake-Up After Owl Defeat. With the playing of the games on the local lot with the University Steers this week-end the Aggies will be well off on their conference base- ball race. In spite of or maybe because of the ridiculous beating that the Ag- gies suffered at the hands of the Rice Owls Monday they are in good shape for the games with the Longhorns Friday and Saturday. In going to Houston the Aggies carr.ed with them a dangerous con- fidence in the outcome of the games with the Owls. They carried a con- sciousness of victories over the Oma- ha club, a class A Western league and the Houston Buffs, a class A Texas league team. They had also very perfectly overcome earlier fears of Eddie Dyer by having defeated the Mustangs so gloriously after the Dal- las university club had hammered the famous Dyer for a victory. This feel- ing literally made the Farmers con- temptuous of Owl strength and very naturally tradition held out and they allowed the Owls to administer the medicine of defeat to them. It was a bad dose to swallow but none too bad for the seriousness of their case, and if they are cured of the malady of over confidence only thanks will be forthcoming for the ministrations of the rival Houstonians. The action of the Aggies in the sec- cnd game in hammering the famous Dyer for nine hits and as many runs was very conclusive evidence that they are cured of the vicious laxness which they showed the day before and as a result the coming games with the Steers will no doubt be very signif- icant affairs. The Longhorns come with two de- feats at the hands of the Baylor Bears on their season record sheet and the Aggies meet them with the sting of the Owl defeat as their only confer- ence set back. As Get ~ your “Southern Champions” football book at the News stand. —160 10 CHOOSE NAME FOR GOAT MEAT Dr. Youngblood Thinks Appropriate Name for Meat Would Give It Greater Commercial Value. Dz. B. Youngblood, dizector of the Experiment Station, has accepted the appointment on a committee to de- cide on the most appropriate name to designate the meat of the goat. The Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Asso- ciation of Texas is conducting a .con- test in which a prize of a high class Angora buck is being offered by B. M. Halbert, a prominent Angora breeder of Sonora, Texas, to the per- son suggesting a name for goat meat which will be accepted by the com- mittee as the most appropriae. In commenting on the matter Dr. Youngllood sald: “I think it is very desirable to decide upon an appropri- ate name for the meat of the goat. The meat of the sheep, the pig, and the cow have long had designations which have no doubt assisted in pop- ularizing those meats commercially, as well as served to conveniently des- icnate the meats when writing or speaking of them. I am glad to see the Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Asso- ciation giving immediate attention to an appropriate name for goat meat which has been growing, and will con- tinue to grow, into popular favor as a | wholesome, nutritious table delicacy. There is a popular misconception due to lack of information, that the meat of the goat is not so palatable as other meats. The facts are that this meat, when properly dressed and pre- pared, is not only the equal of other meats, but is considered by many peo- ple who know how to prepare it as superior to mutton or beef. The Spanish-American peoples are espec- ially favorable to goat meat; and hav- ing established partiality for it, fur- nish a brisk demand in those sections of the State where they have settled. “The ranchmen of West Texas have learned the art of properly killing and dressing the goat for table use, and the delicious dishes which they enjoy and in which the meat of the goat figures conspiciously, are well known (Continued on Page 4) (LMATEHERE ~~ ONCE TROPICAL Dr. Ball: Lectures ,to Seminar on Dis- : coveries Made in Fossil Re- mains of County. Fossil fauna and flora discovered in the formations of Brazos County by Dr. O. M. Ball, biologist and Dr. Mark Francis, dean of veterinary medicine of the A. and M. College, establish the fact that the climate of this sec- tion was in ancient times generally tropical. In an illustrated lecture delivered at a recent meeting of the Science Seminar of the College, Dr. Ball pre- sented many interesting facts about the geology of the county as the re- sults of work that he and Dr. Francis have been doing in past years. He described five formations in the county and gave examples of tne fauma and flora found’ in each. Many of the fossil plants, over 1000 speci- mens of which have been taken out by Dr. Ball are now extinct in Amer- ica, they range from palms to th- higher flowering plants. Many o. them have living representatives only lin the tropics, thus establishing the I fact that the climate of the county was once tropical. ! Fossil remains of the many prehis- | toric giants uncovered from the dif- ‘ ferent strata confirm the former prev- alance of a tropical climate in this country. Among the fossils discover- ed and which are being preserved in the College Museum by Dr. Francis are the mammoth, mastodon, qeugle- don (a whale), camel, giant ancestor of the armadillo, rhinocerous, prehis- toric horse, bison and others. Dr. Ball showed that the greater part of Brazos county consists of soils formed ‘in the . period known as : Eocene and these formations were described as they would be seen in passing along the railroad from the north to the south end of the county. The Cook Mountain formation in the northern part of the county, he said was laid down in shallow seas as shown by the fossils it contains. These include sharks teeth of many kinds, conch and oyster shells, corals and a | turrets like shell called Turiletta.
