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Friday, April 17, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 5 l L AIDS gpf: or] Enters il on w f ^SF OOIX1 the rest ed the ic ■ B _ sr ■ r rKi l<‘rr i Secret g- to bring the soil been thepassrobm/’ said Dr. logical t h of the Agronomy nisra. IV administtnore visual aids, we use of it,ie student a more in- known, es introductory soils Since V d. and Chi: Dr. Foth’s classes reserve, advantage of per- talk. Ma ooms and laborator- sian gov. Experiment Station i live in th 'h is being remodel- | vague, sp(- The Ei;v meet in Goodwin | stood pat, are and in Francis if they v atory work, i should ag-S are not ecjuipped which for ojection hence it has like Gerr.fficult to carry on meat. Is program at all. 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Sneed sale noun ted 0,1 plywood ]jj]j [,. used fm^^^stri^on l„ cue com ’or several laboratory aro Jerry i mann I) v fundamentals in the Youngblood 0 s ^ u< l ent will go into _,er prepared, sai<l Di'. Is lectures include i'e- ,,s and other lengthy riend naW ei: t pertains to Texas illy is a SiHGot found in the text, an "A" ine'W-to give a student a Lucki£S bH''te set of notes, Dr. ted a lecture outline [oehle purchased by the stu- isco State Co!'. Alpha Zeta Initiation, Election Set Monday COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB—Members of A&M’s 4-H Collegiate Club are (first row, left to right) Norman Parish, Steve Lilly, Ben Cook, Chancellor of the System Gibb Gil christ, Miss Mildred (Harris, Ralph Westphal, Bill Ballard. Second row includes Page Morgan, Henry Power, Ed Henson, Richard Tachibana, James Renick, Bob Sheppard, Don Dierschke, Frank Pagel, Ed Hill, Sam Johnson, R. S. Higgins. 4-H Club Boasts Largest Rural Youth Organization By ED STERN JR. Battalion News Staff |ins much of tho ma- not included in the it would take a great , to copy. •.Iso space for the stu- v'. additional notes. I want to teach In- 'Soils as a practical /licable to student . J*Foth paid. Did you know the national 4-H club is the largest rural youth or ganization in the world with over 117,000 members in Texas alone? Although 4-H clubs are designed primarily for boys and girls of grammar and high school age, there is a collegiate 4-H club here on the campus. Normally, club members carry on some type of demonstration, or project, but since this is impracti cal with members of the collegiate club, their primary purpose is to keep up contacts with district and county agents. They also are in terested in encouraging prospec tive college students to come to A&M and study agriculture. The club, organized in 1948, has as some of its activities assisting in the annual 4-H club round-up held each summer here on the cam pus and assisting in conducting agricultural tours. Members also designed the official 4-H club jack et. Gilchrist, Honorary Member On March 7 of this year, several members of the club took part in a program over WRAP - TV, Ft. Worth, in which Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist was made an honorary member of the Texas 4-H club. Members also took part in a 15 minute broadcast over WTAW in which the work of the collegiate club was explained. Chancellor Gilchrist is also a member of the collegiate club—the only student organization he belongs to. Three of the club’s members were selected for the International Farm Youth Exchange. IF YE sends outstanding 4-H club mem bers to foreign countries where they live and work with local peo ple. Stale Sponsors IF YE aker, is now attending John Tarle- ton Agricultural College. The 4-H club is sponsored by the Agricultural Extension Serv ice, of which G. G. Gibson is di rector. State 4-H club leaders for boys are Floyd Lynch and A. H. Karcher. Leaders for girls are Misses Erma Wines and Mildred Harris. Thirty-nine new members will be initiated at 7:15 p.m. Monday into the Texas Alpha Zeta Chapter of Alpha Zeta, national agricul ture honor society, in the MSC As sembly Room. Following the initiation, new officers will be elected. Refresh ments will be served after the election, said Gene Steed, chan cellor of the local chapter. The initiates, all juniors and sen iors, were selected on the basis of grades, activities, leadership and character. To be considered for membership an agriculture student must have a grade point ratio of 2.0 and his extracurricular activi ties. A&M has had the honor frater nity since April, 1951. The only other chapter in Texas is at Tex as Technological College at Lub bock. The local chapter has forty ac tive members. Present officers are Steed, chancellor; Bobby Rags dale, censor; Richard Miller, treas urer; Charlie Sloan, secretary; and Bill Huffman, historian. Faculty sponsors of the organ ization are R. C. Potts of the ag ronomy department; R. E. Leigh ton, professor of dairy husbandry; and A. C. Magee of the agricul tural administration department. Graduate students to be initiated are Frank S. Wise, Leo Merrill (MS), Paul T. Koshi, W. D. Fish er, E. C. Bashaw, and Cleveland J. Gerard. Gerard is working on his ’ Ph.D. Undergraduate students to be in itiated are Norwin E. Linnartz, William S. Thornton, Samuel R. Johnson Jr., Harry V. Steel, Loren Crockett, Edmund R. Pharis, Ed win M. Hinson, Raymond L. Ken ny, Oliver C. Jarvis, William E. Wright, J. W. Tackett, James G. Schneider, A. H. Ringhoffer, Wil liam W. Holtzapple, Charley J. Kammerdiener, Floyd R. Gladden. Michael R. Siliman, Robert S. Berger, Harvey Dunnenberg, Jer ome L. Ledwig, T. G. Darling, Mel ton G. Holubec, William C. An drews, James W. Burns, Roy F. Sullivan, Leonard W. Stasney, Fred H. Mitchell, Roy D. Hickman, Herbert Brewer, James P. Mock- ford, James L. Blaine, Norbert K. Ohlendorf, and Edsel A. Renden. Department Sets Student Research By WILLIAM S. THORNTON Battalion News Staff Undergraduate research is little known in most colleges, but a dual experiment is coming to a close in the animal husbandry department. Kream, Kow Klub Sets Annual Feed The IFYE is sponsored by the USDA in connection with the state agriculture department working through the Agricultural Exten sion Service. The trip is payed for by businessmen and civic or ganizations form the 4-H club member’s home county. The IFYE is a two-way propo sition. That is, for every Ameri can there is some foreign student who comes to the United States. Steve Lilly, animal husbandry major from Nacogdoches went to Turkey and Ed Hill, agricultural education major from Garland, went to Greece. Bill Whitaker, animal husbandry major f r o m Carthage went to England. Whit- Landers, New President This year’s officers are Steve Lilly, president; Ralph Westphal, vice-president; Jakie Landers, sec retary; Bill Ballard, treasurer; and Ed Stern, reporter. . Next year’s officers will be Ja kie Landers, president; Bill Bal lard, vice-president; Ed Stern, sec retary; Don Dierschke, treasurer; and R. S. Higgins, reporter. The club’s faculty sponsor is Ben Cook, assistant dean of ag riculture. Cook is a former 4-H club member and county agent. Various social activities are held throughout the year. The annual spring pai’ty was held last week. The Kream and Kow Klub has scheduled its annual spring bar becue for April 25, said Jerry Mosley, club member. The exact time has not been set, but it will be after the Spring Dairy Show, that aftenioon and before the Cattleman’s Ball that night, he said. As in the past, the dairy de partment will furnish the meat, he added. The club voted to bar becue the meat themselves this year. Joe A. Hudson Jr. will be in charge of all arrangements. A practical course m undergrad uate research is little tested, but such a course is currently being offered in the school of agricul ture. This course is Animal Husband ry 445. Any undergraduate ag student may receive from 1 to 4 credit hours depending upon his particular research problem. A student’s grade is determined solely by his interest and the con stituents of his thesis. This course stresses the practic ability of animal industry while showing research methods and their results. Weight-Age Correlation The animal experiment is being conducted to find a possible con nection between the initial weight and age of feedlot bulls and their average daily gain. This is only one phase of a group of experiments being run on the same bulls by graduate and AH 445 students. Though the feeding period is finished, the data has not been fully analyzed and there fore no definite conclusions have been obtained. Feeding was done at the barns across the railroad tracks on the Caldwell highway under the su pervision of Dr. H. O. Kunkel of the Animal Husbandry Depart ment. It was begun in November, 1952, and continued for 144 days. The sample consisted of nine Hereford and 13 Angus bulls, ranging in age from eight to 16 months at the beginning of the ex periment. Dwarfs Used Most of the bulls were loaned to the college by Mrs. Louis Ebel- inger, Jess B. Alford, The Cap- rock Angus Farms, and Tommie M. Potts. The balance, including four dwarfs, came from the col lege herds. The bulls were fed a mixture ox ground hay, silage, corn, oats, cot tonseed meal, bone meal, and sail twice daily and allowed to eat as much as they would clean up in about an hour. After each feeding, the barn was cleaned and washed down with a hose. The bulls were weighed every twenty-eight days. Care had to be taken not to weigh when they had “fill”—that is, just after they (See RESEARCH, Page 6) Dairy Article Shows Dairymen Elected To Aggie DH Club Milk Not Expensive Food By EDDIE THOMPSON Battalion News Staff The Battalion Farm and Ranch News rage Pro hlem Mas So lu tion Evert goode lion News Staff uteri forage problem solution. ••sg^mley is a new disease Sjiln-iety developed pri- •'F'..*7rr l winter forage crop, i produce good grain e top growth is not ured by late winter , College Station. Its outstanding performance was due partly to its disease resistance and partly to its ability to recover from the ef fects of frost injury. ty of bailey was de- South Texas growing but it is being grown in the central part of There it is giving re- jr to those of our pies- winter forage pro- highest average grain 3-year nursery test of varieties of barley at Heaviest Forage Yielder Goliad produced 1,461 pounds of air dry forage per acre near Col lege Station during the winter of 1949-50. This can be compared to 645 pounds produced by Texan barley, 1,352 pounds by Fultex oats, 1,153 pounds by Mustang oats and 1,197 pounds by Seabreeze wheat. Goliad has been developed from a cross between Juliaca and Peat- land made by E. S. McFadden in 1938. It has a taller and stronger straw than the common varieties of barley grown in Texas. It has an erect, spring-type growth habit, and when planted early in the fall, makes more fall and early-winter growth than any of the winter-type varieties. Goliad had demonstrated its ability to “come back” and make new growth after hard freezes killed the top growth back to the ground and proved fatal to more tender varieties. One hundred and eighty-one acres of registered Goliad barley are being grown in Texas to pro duce certified seed. The “Certified Seed Growers” are S. E. Crews Jr., of Karnes City; Elmer Jacob of Goliad; Max Ohlendorf of Lockhart; Richards Farms of Lockhart; William Weide of Edna; Eugene Wranitzky of Kyle; and Chester Young of Lock hart. Harry Peterson of Austin and John Richards of Harlingen, were elected honorary members of the Kream and Kow Klub, April 7. Peterson was chosen for his work in dairy production. He is owner and operator of the Hill- crest Farm in Austin. Richards, president of the Dairy Products Institute of Texas, was elected because of his position in the dairy manufacturing field and his operation of the Hygeia Milk Products Co., Hralingen. Richards and Peterson were chosen by popular vote of the club. Because milk prices have ad vanced several cents a quart in the past few years, many people are beginning to get the idea that milk is an expensive food. Before a person draws such a conclusion, he should first ex amine a few facts. An article in a recent dairy magazine states that when child ren .consume dairy products in recommended amounts, sufficient calcium and riboflavin are furnish ed to meet the recommended daily dietary requirements for these nutrients as set up by the National Research Council. Research Grants Given to Ag Station Two reseai’ch grants, totaling $1,300 for use in studies of cotton insects and weed control, have been received by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, said Dr. R. D. The article further says that one-half of the protein and vita min A and one-fourth of the thi amine that are required are also furnished by the milk. It points out that the nutritive essentials for the development and maintenance of strong teeth are found in milk. an important soui'ce of vitamin A and B complex. It is a basic fact that milk pro tein is a complete animal protein of the highest qualities, and that today it is probably the most ec onomical source of complete pro tein. The following gives the cost of one pound of protein furnished in each of the following foods: Sirloin steak at $1 a pound; protein cost, $6.39; Index, 100. Large Eggs at 75 cents a doz en; protein cost $4.39; Index, 69. Fluid Milk at 25 cents a quart; protein cost, $3.26’; index, 51; Cheddar Cheese at 60 cents a pound; protein cost, $2.40; index 38. Because the composition of milk is eighty-seven per cent water and only thirteen per cent dry weight, some people have the idea milk is expensive because of the large volume of water it contains. hos heard SB S5S STUDENTS PH the Real Thing . . . talian. Spaghetti md Meat Balls UION-WIDE: urvey based OBEYED EVERY SUNDAY FROM II A.M. 0 leading colit? Try a Bi steaming Platter Today ! : Luckies than i gin. No. 1 reas: also shows LtP ;ers in these coi : ir principal bn Triangle Drive-Inn jARSTTBS Brahman Fastest Lewis, director. The American Cyanimid Com pany, insecticide department, through Dr. F. R. Barron Jr., sen ior entomologist, has renewed its grant-in-aid of $1,000 in support of experimental work with formula tions containing Thiophos Parathi- on and related compounds for con trol of cotton insects. The USDA reports calcium is the nutrient most lacking in the American diet and milk is the soui'ce of seventy-six percent of the calcium in these diets. Calcihm Cheap Growing US Breed “The Brahman is the fastest growing breed of cattle in the United States today,” said Harry Gayden, secretary of the American Brahman Breeders Association. Gayden made this statement re cently to the Saddle and Sirloin Club. He explained how after a relatively slow start in 1926 the Brahman breed has steaily grown until it is the third largest breed now in the country. J. D. Hudgins, largest Brahman breeder in the country, made a talk and showed films of operations on his ranch after being introduced by Gayden. Hudgins explained how the Brah man breed was able to thrive in hot temperature where other cat tle could not and why they were becoming so popular here in the south. New methods of branding, de horning, loading and shipping were explained in the film taken on the J. D. Hudgins j-ancii. This work will be conducted by the department of entomology. Acting through L. G. Smith of the Julius Hyman & Co. division, the Shell Chemical Corp. has re newed a grant of $300 for research on control of weeds and soil-borne diseases of plants. Other figures bring out the fact that even at the retail price of twenty-five cents, a gram of cal cium a day obtained from whole milk costs only twenty-two cents. These figures also point out that the increased use of milk and milk products in 1948, as compared to 1942, was responsible for an eigh teen percent increase in riboflav in intake. It is believed that riboflavin is the vitamin most lacking in Amer ican diets, and milk is known to be By comparison, sixty-two per cent of beef steak is water and eggs ai'e seventy-five per cent water. It has been shown through re cent surveys that milk is a low cost food delivered to consumers at prices that have gone up con siderably less then the average food cost. New government price index figures, based on pre-war aver ages, show milk is forty-one points below the average increase in the cost of the family market basket. After considering the facts that have been presented, it should be a reasonable conclusion that milk is not an expensive food item. It furnishes many of the food nutrients which are required in the daily diet, and at a price cheaper than the majority of oth er foods. As compared with other foods, milk prices have gone up very little. J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildrool Oeam-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test LEGAL HOLIDAY Tuesday, April 21, 1953 being - a Legal Holiday, in observance of San Jacinto Day, the undersigned will observe that date as a Legal HolidTay and not be open for business. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK BRYAN BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’N. "USTEN, BIR0-B2AIN, don’t get soar, but I cooed never love you,” said Sheedy’s little chickadee. “Your hair’s strictly for the birds! Better remember the tree cardinal rules for social success so you won’t be an also-wren. 1. Hop to a toiler goods counter. 2. Peck up a bottle or tube of "Wildroot Cream-Oil, America’s Favorite Hair Tonic. Contains Lanolin. Non-alcholic. Grooms the hair. Relieves dryness. Removes goose, ugly dandruff. Helps you pass the Finger-Nail Test. 3. Use it daily and peeple will love you.” Paul got Wildroot Cream-Oil for himself and a diamond wing for his tweetie- pie. Better buy a bottle or tube today. Or ask for it at your barber’s. If you don’t you’re cookoo ! fA/? of 131 So. Harris Hill Rd., Williamsville, N. Y. "Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. modus rut Nan |»| •luivis myness ■wovts ■ »>oa oiKcuuiL^-- liMOYIS \'i il 11 p 1 K If i ■ I ■ I