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been thepassrobm/’ said Dr.
logical t h of the Agronomy
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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(-
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| 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.
Eisenh. i’t get in the class-
brief, neAt don’t get it,” said
about bt:;building up a collec-
Russians ,.d slides, graphs, and
nothing to as lecture illustra-
offensived
action, n overhead projector
2j ow ...other aids, and we
speech,’ he them by next year,”
in the p inature Profiles
swei - , directs made some mina-
i challenge 1‘iles for’ the student
he lectures on that
W Csltl series of soil sam-
-,, TI 's depths, dr ies them,
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es them with a dis-
The At ’ ,
solvent evaporates,
becu ii! are ve, y bard and
■il, moist appearance.
Wallace 2S are p U g j n their
‘■hitreture t glued to a strip of
conduct a , f i labeled,
ol the pm; j s a ruinature o-oss
Evervnn. profile of the soil,
Sneed, d atural color, horizons
Foundatior •
cents per: las also made some
the barber, profiles, or cross
the West bl, several feet deep.
Sneed sale noun ted 0,1 plywood
]jj]j [,. used fm^^^stri^on
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’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.
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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 !
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of 131 So. Harris Hill Rd., Williamsville, N. Y.
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