Dr. Mark Francis,
Campus.
THE TEXAS AGGIE
Published Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOLUME II.
BRYAN, TEXAS, AN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 15, 1922
NUMBER 7
AGGIE LIVESTOCK JUDGING
TEAM LEAVES FOR CHICAGO
AND KANSAS CITY CONTESTS
Ane *o
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a
Most Extensive Training Trip Ever Attempted by a Te:
Will be Made by Coach Stangel and His Men.. C
For Winning Are Very Good. -
The team of six men who will rep-
resent Texas A. and M. College in the
livestock judging contests at the
American Royal and International
livestock shows, left College on No-
vember 15th for a training tour of
several days. The team is in charge
of Prof. W. L. Stangel, animal hus-
bandry graduate with the Class of
1915, a member of the International
team of 1914 and coach of the team
of 1919 that won the International
honors for A. and M. College that
year.
Those who made the team are: B.
F. Brown, Rockwall; J. A. Gorman,
Beaumont; N. W. Jones, Windthorst;
G. A. Lindsey, Bartlett; R. M. Mil-
hollin, Lipan; and G. F. Schmidt,
Kingsbury. Five of these men will
constitute the team that enters the
contests at Kansas City and Chicago.
The sixth man will be the alternate.
The five who will constitute the team
will not be selected until the morning
of the contest, and as all past grades
are to be discarded and only the rec-
ord made on the road will count in
the final decision of Coach Stangel
any one of the six will have an op-
portunity to make the team,
Much interest is benig manifested
in the contest this year as the Texas
team will have to win only one more
contest for the large bronze bull tro-
phy that is given by the Saddle and
Sirloin Club of America, to become
the permanent property of the Col-
lege. The rule is that an institution
‘has to win the trophy three times
for it to become permanent property.
Texas A. and M. College teams have
. won the trophy twice in the last six |
contests, having won in 1913 and
1919. The fact that Purdue won last
year, which made it the second time
that institution has had the bronze
bull, makes this year’s contest all the
more interesting. If either of these
teams win this year the trophy will
become the permanent property of
the winner and all the teams com-
peting next year will start again on
an equal footing.
Extensive Trip Planned.
Coach Stangel has planned one of
the most extensive training tours
this year that has ever been attempt-
ed by a Texas team. Leavnig on the
15th of November, they will be on the
road continuously until the day of
the International Contest, December
2nd. The first stop will be made at
the Percheron farm of Wm. F. Char-
bonneau, at Fort Worth. From Fort
Worth they will make a direct run
to Kansas City where they will ar-
rive November 17th and will compete
in the collegiate livestock judging
contest ‘of the American Royal Live-
stock Show the following day.
The team will stay at Kansas City
for five or six days, visiting the many
livestock farms in that vicinity.
Among those they expect to visit are
Longview Farm, Lee’s Summit, Mo.,
where they will judge Duroc-Jersey
hogs and L. H. Glover's farm at
Grandview, Mo., for Poland-China
hogs. They will also visit the farms
of Fred C. Merry and Frank C. Mec-
Dermand, to judge Shorthorn cattle
and Wallace Good farm for Hereford
cattle. Leaving Kansas City Novem-
ber 24th, Coach Stangel will take his
team to Ames, Ia., for a two day
workout on the herds of the Iowa
State College. On the 27th they will
go to Ankney, Ia., where they will
judge some of the best Belgian horses
in the United States on the farm of
Mr. Chas. Irvine. The Texas teams
have always made it a practice to
visit Mr. Irvine and at no point on the
route north do they receive so cordial
a welcome as that on Mr. Irvine's
farm.
Will Meet Old Team Member.
From Ames, Ia. to Madison, Wis-
consin, will be the next jump. On the
27th and 28th the Texans will work on
the livestock of the University
of Wisconsin, and on th 29th
they will go to Waukesha, Wiis.,
where -they wil judge Short
horns on the farm of Frank G. Hard-
ing, secretary of the American Short-
horn Breeders’ Association and one of
the largest importers and breeders of
Shorthorns in America. This will
probably be the most profitable work-
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: Team
A. & M. WILL HAVE
ENTRIES IN INTER-
NATIONAL SHOW
String of Eight Steers Will be Shown
At the American Royal and In-
ternational Exposition.
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The A. and M. College of Texas
will exhibit eight head of steers at
the American Royal Livestock show
at Kansas City November 18 to 25
and at the International Exposition
and Livestock Show at Chicago, De-
cember 2 to 9. The exhibit will consist
of four of the Angus breed, one pure-
bred Hereford, one grade Hereford,
one crossbred Angus-Hereford and
one crossbred Hereford-Shorthorn. G.
S. Templeton, head of the Depart-
ment of Animal Husbandry will di-
rect the showing of the animals at
both Kansas City and Chicago.
For many years the College has
been showing steers from the herd
used for classwork in the shows in
Texas but this is the first time that
exhibition has been attempted on any
large scale in the national shows. En-
couragement to enter the larger
shows has been largely gathered by
Professor Templeton from the suc-
cess obtained by the single entry of
a Hereford steer at the International
| Exposition at Chicago two years ago.
The animal was the first prize calf
over all breeds, grades and cross-
breds in the College and Experiment
Station division of the international
show and in the open class was only
defeated by the reserve grand cham-
pion of the entire show.
A full brother to this animal,
Prince Perfecto 17th, is among the
string that will be shown this year.
All of the animals being taken to
Kansas City and Chicago have been
bred, fed and prepared by the Col-
lege with a single exception, and that
is a senior yearling Angus steer
which was bred by Sam H. Hill &
Son of San Angelo and added to the
College herd as a calf. Last year he
was exhibited at four shows, Dallas,
Waco, Houston and Fort Worth and
was the champion of his breed. He
was not exhibited at Dallas this fall.
Professor Templeton expects to
continue showing at the national
shows in after years. A number of
very fine breeding animals have been
added to the beef herds in the past
few months increasing the herd to
such size that he will be able to pre-
pare an exhibit which will be a cred-
it to the beef cattle industry of the
state.
DALLAS BANKER TO
HAVE MODEL FARM
Visits College for Inspection and
Wants A. and M. Graduate to
Manage Enterprise.
Messrs. Royal A. Ferris and Ben
Cabel of Dallas stopped at the A. and
M. College last week as they were
on their way to the Gulf Coast for
a duck hunt, to confer with Dean E.
J. Kyle of the School of Agriculture
and inspect the Animal Husbandry,
Dairy Husbandry and Poultry de-
partments and equipment and study
the methods of management in these
departments.
Mr. Ferris acquainted Dean Kyle
of his plans for developing a practi-
cal livestock farm on a tract of 500
acres of black land situated about
two miles from Waxahachie. He stat-
ed that he intends to cooperate very
closely with the A. and M. College
in the enterprise, his plan being to
make his project a model which woul
be an example to the farmers in that
section of what can be accomplished
with livestock in the black land belt.
He asked Dean Kyle to recommend a
graduate to take over the responsi-
bility of developing his plans.
'|ELMER CURTIS Arnon,
Killed in Aeroplane Accident,
March Field, February 19, 1919.
FARRIS SHELTON ANDERSON,
Killed in action, Attigny, France,
October 13, 1918. .
WALTER GUSTAVOS BEVILL,
Died of Pneumonia, Camp Pike Base
Hospital, March 31, 1918.
WILLIAM FOWLER BOURLAND,
Killed in action, Bois de Nanc
France, October 9, 1918. Fe
THOMAS REED BRAILSFORD,
Killed in action, Belleau Wood,
June 1918. ad
VORIES P. BROWN, JR.
Killed in action, St. Michiel, Se
tember 14, 1918.
RICHARD PLATT BULL, JR.
Died of Influenza, October 17, 1918.
JOSEPH DANIEL CARTER, ,
Killed near Verdun, March 21, 191
ROMEO WALLIS COX,
Killed in action, St. Mihiel, Se;
tember 12, 1918. j
SAMUEL REID CRAIG,
Killed in action, St. Mihiel, Se:
tember 14, 1918.
NORMAN G. CROCKER,
Drowned when Tuscania was sunk,
February 5, 1918.
EDWARD BISHOP CROOK, 7
Died of Influenza, Camp Merritt
October 8, 1918.
MANSON FRANKLIN CURTIS,
Died of wounds recieved in Azgons
ne, October 23, 1918. a RE
JESSE L. EASTERWOO n
Killed in aeroplane cosdent, 18
Zone, May 19, 1919. or
JAMES G. ELLIS, JR.
Killed in action, Second battle of
the Marne, July 3, 1918. R..
JAMES ROLAND FINLATER,
Died of Influenza, in England, Oc-
tober 26, 1918.
BENJAMIN H. GARDNER, JR.
Killed at second battle of the
Marne, July 18, 1918.
ERIC ALBERT GOLDBECK,
Killed at Chateau Thierry, June 7,
1918.
EDWIN MOBLEY GORMAN,
Killed “at second battle
Marne, July 21, 1918.
CYRUS EARLE GRAHAM,
Killed in aeroplane accident, France
November 9, 1918.
JAMES FRANCIS GREER,
Killed in aeroplane accident, France
October 21, 1918.
GEORGE LITTLE HARRISON,
Mortally wounded at Marvillais,
Alsace, July 12, 1918.
CHARLES HAUSSER,
Killed in action, Cantigny, France,
May 28, 1918.
HAMLET PARK JONES,
Killed in Action, St. Mihiel,
tember 12, 1918.
WALTER SHERMAN KEELING,
Killed in aeroplane accident, F%.
Sep-
a
\LEST WE FORGET
LUKE WITT LOFTUS,
Mortally wounded at Nogales, Ari-
zona, August 27, 1918.
GRAHAM DANIEL LUHN,
Killed in action, Etienne, France,
10ctober 8, 1918.
WILLFORD McFADDEN,
Went out with aeroplane patrol
Worth, September 10, 1918.
over German lines, October 7, 1918,
and never returned.
JOHN CLYDE Mc¢KIMMEY,
Killed in action, St. Etienne, Octo-
ber 9, 1918.
(JOHN LAMAR MATTHEWS,
Killed at Essequenoy, Oise, France,
October 16, 1918.
|HADYN POTTER MAYERS,
Killed in action, July 31, 1918.
JOHN HARWELL MOORE,
Killed in action near Soissons,
July 18, 1918.
- |JOHN BOLANZ MURPHY,
Killed in action, Missy-aux-Bois,
. [July 20, 1918.
~ |ROBERT WALKER NOLTE,
Killed in Battle of Blane Mont, Oc-
; tober 9, 1918.
|HERBERT N. PETERS,
Killed in action, St. Mihiel, Sept-
[tember 26, 1918.
|HARRY LAMAR PEYTON,
Killed in aeroplane accident, Kelly
Field, March 28, 1918.
 |wENDELL FRANCIS PRIME,
Killed in action Sassey on the Mu-
- |ese, November 6, 1918.
FERDINAND REGENBRECHT,
Mortally wounded, St. Mihiel, Sep-
|tember 19, 1918.
EDMUND LARETZ RIESNER,
Killed in action, Belleau Wood,
June 14, 1918.
|CHARLES EDWARD RUST,
Mortally wounded in aeroplane
fight over the lines, October 10, 1918.
FRANK WILLIAM SLATON,
Killed in action between Chateau
Thierry and Soissons, July 20, 1918.
CHARLES LEROY TEAGUE,
Killed in action, St. Etienne, Octo-
ber 8, 1918.
WILLIAM GEORGE THOMAS,
of the! Killed in aeroplane accident, Nancy,
France, January 7, 1919.
JOHN PERCY THOMPSON,
Killed at Chateau Thierry, June 3,
1918.
GEORGE FRANCIS WELLAGE,
Killed in action, St. Mihiel Sep-
tember 12, 1918.
CONEY UNCAS WOODMAN,
‘Died of Pneumonia, March Field,
Cal., December 5, 1918.
RICHARD P. WOOLLEY,
Died of Influenza, Nice, France,
January 16, 1919.
BENJAMIN FISKE WRIGHT,
Killed in action, Champagne Front,
October 8, 1918.
HORACE CONRAD YATES,
Died of Influenza, Camp Travis,
October 18, 1918.
The cadet corps, military instruc-
ors, and war experienced officials,
utilizing the systematic organization
and military equipment of the Col-
lege produced a commemoration ser-
vice in recognition of Armistice Day
in the College auditorium Saturday
morning which was most fitting with
the remarks of Col Ike Ashburn,
commandant, in the course of the ser-
vice that “Texas A. and M. had the
largest participation in the
forces of democracy during the world
war of any other of the larger edu-
United
armed
cational institutions in the
States.”
A total of 2300 former studentse of
the institution or 49 per cent of the
former student body, served in the
army and navy during the war,” he
said, “which does not include the hun-
dreds who served in the architectural
and engineering industries which con-
tributed so much in the winning of the
war.”
Col. Ashburn, who served with the
90th division from the beginning of
its training in Texas to the end of
its drive in the St. Mihiel sector that
turned the tide of war, by recount-
ing in touching words the progress of
the war as he saw it from that lead-
ing combatant division, effected a sac-
red tribute of silent attention from
the audience.
Thomas F. Mayo, librarian, who
gave up his resident study at Oxford
COLLEGE FITTINGLY HONORS
HEROES WHO DIED IN FRANCE
to aid the British in the war then re-
called the ideals which actuated the
men who fought with the allies and
reminded those present of their pres-
ent obligations to perpetuate these
ideals. “They fought for our desire
of individuality in government and
society,” he said. “By their accom-
plishment we are permitted to live
with the ideal that we may have gov-
ernment without surrendering our
rights to individual development. It
is now our obligation to learn to
think socially, be tolerant of others,
and see the other man’s point of view,
justify the ideal for which our heroes
fought and prove that it is more
worthy than the German ideal of in-
dividual suppression for efficiency,
which was destroyed.”
As the congregation stood at atten-
tion, Cadet Col. John C. Mayfield read
the names of the 51 sons of A. and M.
who paid the supreme sacrifice.
In the reverent spell of silence that
followed the last name, a battery of
cannon just outside the hall began
firing the salute of 21 guns, and the
echo returning from the last honorary
blast mingled with the sound of taps
blown by a bugler in front of the hall,
so intense was the feeling produced
by these dying sounds following the
memories which had been previously
aroused by the words of the speakers,
|that hardly a one in the audience was
able to suppress an expression of
sympathy in tears.
COLLEGE SECURES STRONG
MAN IN PROF. GEO. GROUT
TO HEAD D. H. DEPARTMEN1
Received Training in Best Dairy Schools of North and Has Had
Broad Experience in Commercial Breeding
and Dairying.
BRAZOS A. & I.
CLUB ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
Comprehensive Plans for the New
Year are Being Worked Out for
Club by New Board.
The Brazos County A. and M.
Club held its first meeting since the
summer vacation on Monday night,
November 6, and new officers were
elected and plans discussed for the
new year. The meeting was held in
the form of a banquet at Sbisa Hall
and was well attended by both Bryan
and Campus A. and M. men. The
meeting was presided over by the
old president, W. L. Stangel.
H. H. Williamson ’11, state agent,
Extension Service of the College was
elected president, S. C. Evans, 21,
Boys’ Club Agent, Extension Service,
1st vice-president, Dr. B. U. Sims,
Bryan, 2nd vice-president, F. E.
Lichte ’06, Textile Department, 3rd
vice-president and D. E. Baker ’18,
Drawing Department, secretary-
treasurer. The three additional mem-
bers of the board of directors elected
were C. E. Friley ’20, Registrar; J.
Webb Howell ’94, Bryan and B. D.
Marburger 05, Professor of Railway
Engineering.
Plans were discussed for entertain-
ing the large representation of far-
mers who are coming to A. and M.
College on a tour of inspection un-
der the auspices of the numerous A.
and M. Clubs over the state. These
will be shown every courtesy possi-
ble by the local club.
It was decided to change the time
of meeting from the first Monday
night of each month to a noon lun-
cheon on the Tuesday after the first
Monday of each month. At least three
meetings during the year will be held
on Tuesday nights and the ladies
will be invited to attend. The first of
these meetings will be held shortly
after Thanksgiving.
DR. FRANCIS
TALKS ABOUT
RARE FOSSILS
Uses Specimens From the Veterinary
Department Museum to Illus-
trate Lecture.
Before the Science Seminar, a
monthly meeting of the scientist of
the College for the discussion of sci-
entific subjects, this month Dr. Mark
Francis delivered a very interesting
lecture on ‘““Mastodons and Mam-
moths” in which he traced the his-
tory of the elephant family from its
point of origin in northern Africa
and its subsequent migration to the
different parts of the world and par-
ticularly this continent which led
him up to the most interesting part of
his lecture.
Dr. Francis told of several remains
which he had found. His account of
the difficulties encountered in exca-
vating for the fossils, removing them
and transporting them safely to the
College was interesting. Many of the
best specimens ever discovered, he
said, have been destroyed through the
carelessness of the discovers in re-
moving them. In this connection he
made an appeal for more interest ani
help in preserving the best of these
specimens in a museum here at the
College, saying that many of the best
discoveries in this section of the coun-
try are taken away to museums in
New York and other large eastern
cities. He exhibited a number of fos-
sils, however, to show that A. ani
M. now has the nucleus of a most val-
uable collection, pointing out several
fossils which if mounted would sur-
pass in value any similar ones in the
possession of the greatest museums
in the world.
George P. Grout, successful univ-
ersity and commercial dairyman in
the Great Lakes dairying district of
the United States has been employed
to head the Dairy Husbandry De-
partment of the A. and M. College
of Texas.
He is now engaged in disposing of
his personal property which cannot
be well managed from a distance as
Texas is from his home state of Min-
nesota and will come to Texas with-
in a reasonable length of time to take
up his work with the College, ac-
cording to E. J. Kyle, Dean of the
School of Agriculture.
In securing Mr. Grout, Dean Kyle
feels that he has accomplished one of
his best ideals for the Schoolof Ag-
riculture. The wide technical train-
ing of the man represented in the
bachelor and master degrees which
he holds, his ability to properly pre-
sent all matters relative to techni-
que with forceful effect as evidenec-
ed by his success as instructor and
professor in the dairy departments of
the largest northern agricultural col-
commercial breeder and dairyman
and his strong personal presence dem-
onstrated by the many executive po-
sitions which he has held in the lar-
gest livestock associations of the
north, lead Dean Kyle to believe that
he will expand the dairy department
of this College to a rank befitting a
state with the greatest potential pos-
sibilities in the dairy industry of any
other state in the union.
At present Mr. Grout is part owner
and manager of the Jean Du Luta
Farms, situated near Duluth, Minne-
sota. In his eleven years as manager
of these farms Mr. Grout has devel-
oped some of the finest cattle in the
world. His management has to its
credit fourteen of the fifteen world’s
champion production records of the
Red Polled breed. His Gurnseys have
made two world’s records. His Hol-
steins and Jerseys have been constant
winners at county fairs, state fairs
and national shows throughout the
United States and Canada.
Mr. Grout was born and reared on
a grain farm and his early realization
that such a single cropping system
could not continue forever directcd
him to dairy husbandry. He finished
the course of the school of agricul-
ture, the University of Minnesota,
serving as an instructor in dairying
during his studentship. After a short
period spent in traveling for a dairy
manufacturing company he entered
the North Dakota Agricultural Col-
lege as a student and instructor,
graduating with the degree of B. S. in
agriculture in 1908. After gradua-
tion he was appointed assistant in
dairying in the University of Minne-
sota and givin the privilege of doing
graduate work. He received his mas-
ter’s degree from the University in
1909. He was made assistant profes-
sor of dairy husbandry in the Univ-
ersity and placed in direct charge of
the college herd where he remained
until he joined the Duluth farms.
At present Mr. Grout is president
of four dairy associations and direc-
tor in three others. He is also an edi-
tor and writer.
— JR
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TIMMONS-BOULDEN WEDDING
SOLEMNIZED AT AMARILLO
Miss Lona May Timmons and Cecil
F. Boulden of this city were united in
mariage Saturday evening, Nov. 4, at
7:00 o'clock, by Dr. H. W. Virgin in
his study at the First Baptist Church.
The couple were accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Ted George.
Mrs. Boulden, who is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Timmons of
1610 Monroe street and who having
grown to young womanhood in Ama-
rillo, has made for herself a host of
friends, was attractively gowned in a
dress of navy blue silk crepe. Mr.
Boulden, who has resided in Amarillo
for several years, graduated at the
Texas A. and M. College in 1920,
where he specialized in civil engineer-
ing, and now holds a position with the
Randell Construction Company here.
The couple, following the ceremony,
went immediately to their new home
at 1008 Harrison Street, where they
will be at home to their friends.
leges, his successful experience as a