The Naily Bulletin
Vol. VII
1924, . No. 128
College Station, Texas, Thursday, March 6,
EGG LAYING CONTEST RAINBOW BAND IN
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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.
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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
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| 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
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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.
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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,