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The Naily Bulletin Vol. VII 1924, . No. 128 College Station, Texas, Thursday, March 6, EGG LAYING CONTEST RAINBOW BAND IN i | RECORDS ARE BROKEN, CONCERT TONIGHT, Pen of Barred Plymouth Rocks Lay | Ladies’ Musical Organization of Seven 134 Out of Possible 145; One Rock | Members Will Present Varied Lays Every Day; Other Records | Program at 8:00 O’clock A pen of Barred Plymouth Rocks! Seven talented musicians compro- belonging to M. A. Lee of Seadrift, | mise the Ladies’ Rainbow Saxaphone Texas laid down a veritable barrage of | Band and Orchestra which will appear smooth brown eggs in the all Texas |in concert in the Assembly Hall thie fresh egg shoot of the Texas National | evening at 8:00 o‘clock, under the aus- Egg Laying contest being conducted | pices of the Y.M.C.A. The group is LONGHORN SERIES T0 END BASKETBALL First Game Tomorrow and Final Af- fray on Saturday; Aggies Will Be Strongest of the Season The Aggies entered their last bas- ketball practice period yesterday in preparation for the Longhorns who come to the Kyle field gymnasium to- morrow to engage the Farmers in ther last series of games this season. The Farmers will be in their best at the A. & M. College of Texas, win- ning for the month of February with a score of 134 out of a possible 145 eggs, and breaking all records in the seven years that the contest has been in progress. in the pen hit the bull’s eye every day | of the month with one of her soft shelled bombs. that a hen in the contest has made a 100% record. The average daily production of the | pen was 92.4% as compared to the best record of the seven previous con- tests of 82.6%. It was a record smash ng month in the contest all the way through. An- other record was made when 31 of the 40 pens of 5 birds each laid 100 eggs or better. And a fourth reccrd was established when 175 of the 236 hens laid 20 eggs or more in the 29 day period. A White Leghorn pen belonging to L. C. Beall, Jr. of Vashon, Washington was second to Mr. Lee’s Barred Rocks with a record of 126 eggs and an in- dividual of this pen was second to the 100% Lee hen, laying 28 eggs in | the 29 day period. A pen of S. C. White Leghorns own- ed by J. W. Woods of Somerville is still holding the lead for the duration | of the contest with an egg record of | Service has returned from Washing- | iton, D. C., where he spent several | A Barred Plymouth .Rock from the | days attending a conference of the | 378 eggs for the four month period One of the individuals ! This is the first time ! | versatile in the extreme, and will pre- | sent a program of orchestral numbers, band selections, duets, quartets and vocal and whistling solos. The Band is under the personal su- pervision and direction of Mrs. Sue | Ernest Hewling, a Victor Record ar- In ad- dition to being an unusually gifted ar- tist on the saxaphone, trumpet, slide- cornet, and drums, she is a natural organizer and capable director, and one of the outstanding features of the ‘tist and a musician of note. entertainment will be her whistling | solo work. The program is a mixture of good music, featuring classical and popular numbers in ensemble and solo ar- rangements, and aided electrical effects. Tickets for this number of the Ly- ceum course are on sale at the office ' of the Y. M. C. A. T.0.WALTON RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON Pleased that Washington Adopts Farms. of the South in Reporting Extension Work T. O. Walton, director of Extension condition of this season to revenge the distasteful defeats handed them at Austin by the Longhorns earlier in _ the season. This has been amply dem- onstrated in the series of successes that the Aggies have had lately, win- ning fcur straight games on the heme court a little more than a week auo they took the road and defeated Cik- by unusual lahoma Aggies one game out of two and took their one contest with the T. | C. U. Horned Frogs Monday. In the game tomorrow night Bible will prcbably shift Washburn to guard and play Wilcox with Darby at for- ' ward. This is the line that he used against T. C. U. It will also give him some reserve strength with Dealy on | the sideline. In his substitution then he can push Washburn up to forward {and put in Dealy at guard. | The games will start at 7:30 both ' tcmorrow and Saturday. | PRESIDENT TO CARRY HIS | DUDS IN NEW GIFT BAG | President W. B. Bizzell will carry "his “duds” “to Europe in a beautiful | black handbag whoch was donated to him by the Board of Directors on their | recent meeting at the College. | —————— I — MRS. WATKINS WILL BE LEADER PRAYER SERVICE C. 0. Watkins will lead the Mrs. pens of V. J. Boriskie of Bryan is still | Extension Directors and field workers | Campus mid-week prayer service th's maintaining the individual leadership for production with a record of 93 eggs for the fcur months. Reviewing the contest for the month D. F. Irving, associate profes- sor of poultry husbandry said: “This month, the shortest in the year, has to its credit the greatest production a Texas contest has ever known. Nearly all existing records, many of them long standing, were (Continued on Col. 2, page 4) | called for the purpose of revising and | unifying the report forms of extension | workers. | This meeting was called at the re- ; quest of C. B. Smith, chief of Exten- | sion Work, U. S. Department of Ag- | riculture, Washington, D. C., and was | composed of representatives from each state in the Union conducting | extension work. Mr. Walton was the (Continued on pag: :, )xas repre- col. 3) | evening from 7:00 to 8:00 o’clock at the Tabernacle. A cordial invitation is extended to thcse who feel an in- terest in these services. rate Gp ran Earliest reccrds of the observance of Christmas show that some com- munities celebrated the festival on Jan. 1 or 6, others on March 29, the time of the Jewish Passover, and still others on Sept. 29, or Feast of Tab- ernacle,