PAGE 8
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5. 1944
the first three or four days. If al
lowed to nurse for the first two or
three days this should be restricted *
t oabout five minutes every six
hours and the calf not allowed to ,
run with the cow. Many successful
dairymen hand feed the calf from^.
the beginning because they can be
taught to drink from a pail more
easily if never permitted to nurse.
The state of Kansas received its
name from an Indian tribe called
the Kansas—meaning “People of
the South Wind.”
Winter Legumes
Good Fertilizer
Experiments and demonstra
tion have shown that farmers in
the eastern half of Texas can in
crease yields of cotton and other
crops considerably by improving
the fertility of the soil with win
ter legumes. According to E. A.
Miller, agronomist for the A. and
M. College Extension Service,
many of the soils in this area are
deficient in nitrogen, phosphorus,
potash and organic matter. Re
storation of these nutrients is
necessary to obtain the most pro
fitable production.
Reviewing some of the details
of experiments Miller said that at
College Station vetch produced an
average of about five tons of green'
matter an acre for plowing un
der; seven to eight tons at the
Nacogdoches sub-station of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, and six to seven tons at
the Tyler sub-station. This green
materials contained 80 to 125
pounds of nitrogen an acre, which
is aboundant for an average crop
of cotton.
Miller believes that the experi
ments indicated that much smaller
Don’t
Sleep on
Your
Rights
Get the most
you can out of
what you have
to sell
WE MAKE MINOR REPAIRS FREE on instru
ments and slide rules of the Keuffel and Essex Co. make.
We are the only folks who make repairs on these.
WE ARE STILL BUYING
Books — Lamps — Slide Rules — Drawing Sets
and many other items. What do you have to sell?
Loxxpot’s Trading Post
DO YOUR PART * BUY WAR BONDS
growth of leguminous green man
ure is required for satisfactory re
sults is commonly supposed. This
belief is substantiated by the Col
lege Station demonstration where
the five tons of legumes plowed
under supplied much more nitrogen
than the cotton could use. Where
there is a good stand of broad
cast or drilled vetch a growth of
six to 10 inches, or 15 to 20
pounds of green matter on 100
square feet, should supply plenty
of ntrogen, Miller said.
At this stage vetch can be plow
ed under easily with an ordinary
turning plow equipped with a roll
ing coulter and a wire stretched
from the front of the beam to the
coulter. Delay in plowing under
in order to get a rank growth may
result in a reduced yield of the
succeeding crop. It is beter, he
said, to plow under a medium
growth of about four tons of
green material an acre, than wait
ing for a rank growth.
Hairy vetch is adapted to a
large variety of soils, including the
deep sand and sandy loams of
east Texas and the heavier types
embracing the blackland. Austrian
winter peas are adapted to the
better types of loam soil and should
not be planted on light sandy
soils.
DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS
One of nature’s strangest freaks
is the Ice Cave, a rock cavern near
Decorah, Iowa, which reverses the
laws of nature by being warm in
winter and below freezing in spring
and summer.
HELP BRING VICTORY
BUY WAR BONDS
LOUPOT’S
Watch Dog of the
Aggies
DR. N. B. McNUTT
DENTIST
Office in Parker Building
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
Feeding of Dairy
Cattle Explained
The high death rate of infant
calves in Texas diry herds can be
reduced sharply by proper feeding
and care, says O. W. Thompson,
dairy husbandman for the A. and
M. College Extension Service. At
least one fifth of the average dairy
herd must be replaced yearly and
prevention of death among calves
will reduce the otherwise excessive
cost of raising replacements.
For best results safeguarding the
calf’s life should begin before it
arrives. The cow should be isolated
from the herd as freshening time
nears and housed in a clean, dry
place during bad weather. In good
weather she may be placed in a
maternity pasture convenient for
observation because help at calving
sometimes is needed % The new
born calf should be placed in dry,
clean quarters free from flies and
the navel cord clipped with sterile
scissors about two two inches from
the base. Sterilize the wound with
a mixture of equal parts of tinc
ture of iodine and glycerin.
Proper feeding being the next
step, Thompson lays down these
essential rules: The milk fed to
the calf must be kept clean and
always fed at blood temperature.
Feeding should be at regular in
tervals and overfeeding avoided.
Pails used for feeding should be
kept clean and sterile. Changes in
the amout and kind of milk, calf
meal or other feed should be made
gradually. He cautions that feeding
milk too hot or too cold, and
changes in the temperature of the
milk from one feeding to the next
is the most common cause of di
gestive upsets.
Jersey calves should be fed two
pounds of milk threetimes daily
for the first week and three pounds
twice daily for the second week.
If these rules are followed strictly
and the calf kept in clean, comfort
able quarters, Thompson says, a
dairyman can raise healthy, thrifty
calves. If any of them are broken
he is likely to have trouble.
Touching upon other details of
feeding, the specialist says a calf
should receive it’s mother’s milk
WANTED TO BUY
I. E. S. Lamps — Slide Rules
Books — Drawing Sets — T-Squares
Drawing Boards
COLLEGE BOOK STORE
At North Gate
Perry, Maine, is exactly half
way between the North Pole and
the Equator.
Many a man has been deterred *
from crime because he didn’t have
the courage of the judge’s con
victions.
JUNIOR
UNIFORMS
r
Choose your .Junior
uniform now. We have a
complete assortment of
sizes in 100 % wool Elas-
tique Regulation uni
forms.
Uniform, $44.50
Dress Caps
$7.50 to $10
Pink Slacks
$12 to $14.50
All Wool Green Gab.
Shirts, $11.50'
Rayon Green Gab. Shirts
$5 to $7.95
Pool’s Genuine Cramer-
ton Cloth Boot Breeches
$4.95
CDaldro P 6(6
“Two Convenient Stores”
College Station -o- Bryan
r"-
>*
7
V
>
<