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Thursday, June 4, 1953 THE BATTALION Page 5 II .DUS’ HIGH—An unidentified Aggie from the A&M Rodeo Team pauses in air for a st during the recent AAU rodeo. The Rodeo Team is one of thehnost active organ- itions in connection with Agriculture on the campus. •'ith Spring Rains Bloat Poses as Threat Ei «" To Livestock Industry By GLENN WARD Battalion News Staff >riliR' rains and new plant Hh spell trouble in the form of t to the livestock industry. i herd of stock grazing on ig | succulent sudan grass and Sk3S s-clover mixtures is immune, (■lords may go years without t trouble before it hits. Cattle more apt to suffer from bloat siheep. limals consuming a large The Battalion ^gifFarm & Ranch NEWS re 19ft amount of green succulent feed are more likely to bloat than those eating less. For this reason dairy cows in milk are more subject to bloat than dry cows, or heifers, and ewes nursing lambs will bloat more frequently than other sheep. Cause of Bloat Bloat results when gases pro duced in the paunch by fermenta tion are prevented from escaping. Normally, these gases escape by the way of the lungs or by belch ing. It is believed belching is stim ulated by a scratching action pro duced by coarse feed in the paunch. Soft forages such as young Su dan grass, Johnsongrass and clo vers may not stimulate such ac tion . A second theoi‘y is that bloat is caused by a toxic substance that illofl KEI.r, BENT OK TRADE. Kafes .|'Jc a word per insertion with a |nimum. Space rate in classified in ... . 60c per column-inch. Send iasslfied to STUDENT ACTIVITIES [Qp. Ail ads must be received in snt Activities office by 10 a.m. on the before publication. ® FOR 8AI.E » SF. FOR SALE—By owner, three bed ew ADtJ >TO:: in Colle ? e Hills, Woodland, 1109 tw fly ht, ul . nj appointment only. Phone [Hi 1. Vi B. Dick Mimeograph 91 Duplicator. bids will be received in the Of- e|of the Auditor, College Administra- n; : Building, until 10:00 AM, Monday, ne 8, 1953. The right is reserved to ect any and ail bids and to waive yland all technicalities. Address Aud- r,|/A. and M. College of Texas, College ition, Texas, for further inforr rmation. 19., 9 Chevrolet Station Wagon. Sealed will be received in the Office of Auditor, . College Administration ing, until 2:00 PM, Monday, June 1®53. The right is reserved to reject iliaing, un or, Colleg. ntil 2:00 P M, Monde June y • nd all bids and to waive any and jtitechnicalities. Address Auditor, A. d M. College of Texas, College Station, xas, for further information. 1Y ,EE bedroom frame house, large lot. ..ivloan. 4-8176. ^TNG A NEW CAR? A trade - in ght save you money. See my 1941 lick. 304 Gilchrist, College Hills, '031 D. M. Vestal. BARGAIN sflroom, 2-bath home, 90G Park le. South Oakwood, College bion. Excellent family resi- ?fe or easy rental as income perty. Enormous scree n e d ;h. Secluded and lighted lawn lany feautres. Owner moved alif. and unable to look after pjsrty. Sacrifice at $15,000 . . . i(IO under cost. WilP repaint ex- or and redecorate. See it to- .[ Name your own terms. ill 4-9789 or 4-5984 r jHiappointment with owner be- ;ween June 1 and 15, 1953. K&B DRIVING iryM RANGE ■Open Sunday March 1 On Fin Feather Road Bryan, Texas • HELP WANTED • BEAUTY OPERATOR. Excellent oppor tunity. Pruitt’s Beauty and Fabric Shop. FOR RENT « NICEF.Y furnished apartment. Call Mrs. Clara Winters, 4-9178. THREE ROOM unfurnished apartment. Newly redecorated; 409 North Avenue. $50.00 per month. Phone 4-9493. ONE BEDROOM—500 N. Collge Main. 3 room furnished apartment. 302B N. Main. Call 4-4819. FURNISHED apartments, suitable for couple or couple and small child. Ad jacent Campus. Both available June 1st; one till September, one till mid term. Oden, Southside Food Market. SEWING- machines. Pruitt's Fabric Shop. • PETS • WANT A CUTE PUPPY? Have five fe male all American puppies. Will make nice pets for children. Free to those promising to take care of them. Call 4-1149 monings. Directory of Business Services INSURANCE of all kinds. Homer Adams. North Gate Call 4-1217 • SPECIAL NOTICE • HJD ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M. Called meeting Thursday, June 4, 6:30 p.m. Work in M. M. Degree. A1 B. Nelson, W.M. N. M. McGinnis, See, Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 303A East 26th Call 2-1662 for Appointment (Across from Court House) Prompt Radio Service — C A L L — Sosolik’s Radio Service 712 S. Main St. PH. 2-1941 BRYAN paralyzes the paunch. Death us ually comes from suffocation or rupture of the stomach. Bloat is also associated with cattle eating green forage they are unaccustom ed to. Even though most bloat in cat tle is said to be hereditary. A dis turbance may also upset animals causing bloat from eating too fast. Bloat Symptoms Symptoms of bloat are labored breathing, mouth open, rrioaning, lack of appetite, restlesness, slob bering and puffing up of hollow in front of left hip bone. These symp toms are due to pressure on the lungs, large blood vessels and soft organs and to the absorption of gas. Good management is the best way to prevent bloat. Some of the recommended practices in clude: a well balanced mixture of grasses and clovers in improved pastures, and keep salt and wat er available to them at all times. Others are supply ample rough- ages of hay or straw while cattle are in pastures, feed cattle dry forage before turning them into a well developed clover, Johnson grass or sudan pasture, and do not leave cattle in the pasture too long until they are accustomed to it. How To Treat Cattle that do develop bloat should receive immediate atten tion. Some of the cures for bloat include: ® Plunge an instrument known as a trocar and connula into the paunch if case is severe and gas must escape immediately. ® A small wooden bit may be placed in the cow’s mouth to avoid cow from closing jaws will help bring on belching and escape of gas. ® Sometimes a dose of two to four ounces of turpentine to cattle suffering from bloat gives relief. © A drenching of bloated ani mals with 12 ounces of raw lin seed oil and one and one-half pounds of Epsom salts in one gal lon of water is another recom mended remedy. © Some ranchers carry bottles of mineral oil to give bloated ani mals. Others have made bloated animals run, but this often results in death to the animal. . Good management practices are the best preventative measure for bloat. If you like fresh, neat locking clothes— Take Your Cleaning To . . . CAMPUS CLEANERS Inovations in Have Pushed Dairy Products Industry Far By M. H. MUMME Battalion News Writer Gone are the days of the butter churn, old ungraded eggs, thin, aged fryers, sour homemade cheese. Gone are the days when meat was slaughtered by the rancher and sold to the neighbor hood meat market with all by products wasted. Eggs, meat and poultry are now shipped to better paying markets. They arrive there safely, possess ing all their original qualities and flavor. Butter and cheese are now more appetizing than ever befoi’e and are enjoyed by everyone. Inventions on transportation and machinery have contributed much to our present way of living. Some one made use of better traveling conditions and communication for distribution of thees dairy, poultry and livestock items. New machin ery was set up and put to use, and butter and cheese were manu factured. After being prepared, these items were sold in all parts of the country within a few days. Story of Packing These events, in general, tell the story of the meat packing business. To begin with, the founders of the larger packing companies real ized the importance of distributing dairy, poultry and livestock prod ucts to areas where they were needed most. This could mean bet ter market prices for items all year. In the Eastern part of the coun try, as well as in the growing state of California, farm products are very limited. There, demands for eggs, butter, cheese, poultry and meat have increased. The packers, therefore, ship these needed prod ucts from areas where they are more plentiful. This creates lev eled market prices all over the country. To ship farm products to differ ent areas, without too great an ex pense, the larger packing compa nies have become nationally organ ized. That is, each of the larger packing firms has built its own packing plants. Larger cities are chosen for the plants’ locations where livestock, farm and dairy products are sold in large amounts by the producers. Work Varies The type of work varies in each plant. A packing company might have one plant solely for the fat tening of poultry. There, poultry is latter slaughtered and dressed. The poultry is then packed in ice and shipped to the branch offices. In some plants eggs are candled, sorted and stored for market. In the creameries butter and cheese are majiufactured and packed. In meat plants the packers slaughter and butcher cattle, sheep and hogs, placing the meat in cold storage. Smoked and cured meats are proc essed at the meat plants and by product shipped to various com panies. The prepared farm products and the meat ai-e then shipped to the branch offices, where demands for the items are greatest. At first, livestock was the only item packed by the packers for many years. Later, they packed and sold dairy and poultry prod ucts. Since these products, as well as meat, are consumed daily, the packers now sell them in large quantities at all times.' The products are perishable items and not allowed to be stored for a long time. They are kept in cold storage from the time they are manufactured or sluaghtered until they reach the retailers. Strict Government laws have made necessary a Governmental inspection of the meat while it is in the packing house. Also, the company’s qualified inspector is requix-ed to inspect the meat prod ucts during the time they are in the plant. To keep these pi’oducts in the best condition, packing plants have shipped their px-oducts by refrig- ex*ated tx-ucks and railway cars. They are shipped this way to the branch office. If a reitailei*’s place of business is located out of the city, the px’oducts are shipped to him, also, in refrigerated railway cars and trucks. The temperature of just above fi’eezing is main tained for all meats, dairy and poultry products shipped this way. Steady Market Needed Since these fax’m products are perishable, the packer must find a good, steady market for them. Some of the larger packing com panies receive market quotations. These ai*e x’eceived by telegraph and telephone from their buyers in different cities. When an inci’ease in price in another city is high enough to pay the tx’ansportation, a packing company might ship a good number of the px'oduct there. Many times, the market for meat may drop. A packing company might have shipped sevex-al thou sand dollax-s woi’th of meat to a market where it had been selling for a higher pi-ice. In such a case, the packer must sell the perish able item at a loss. Despite many such hai'dships, the packer’s other products • ax-e often shipped from one office to another. This distributing from mai’ket to market results in keen competition between packers. If it weren’t for this way of market ing lai'ge quantities of poultiy, eggs, butter, cheese and meat could not be sold as they ai’e now. The market for them would be limited; the pi'ice for them, unstabled. It is the keen competition which ex ists between packex-s today that has leveled the prices on pi'oducts sold by them. The packing companies, as a re sult, have progressed rapidly. They have produced plants, branch of' fices and sales routes, which all help in large marketing of farm products. With all the business created by the packing companies, howevex’, it is surprising that little profit is made. One of the larger packing firms in the country made an av erage of one and one-half cents per dollar of sales over a 50-year period in business. By-Products Are Vital Many contend if it weren’t for by-products, the packers could not operate without losing on every item they handle. Some by-products familiar to us are hides used for leather, fat for lai’d, tallow for soap, hair for brushes, and bones used in the manufacture of animal feeds. These livestock by-products are sold to manufacturers, along with organs of the animals. From the latter, medicines, helpful in medical re search, are px-oduced. ★ MARKET SPECIALS ★ EXTRAORDINARY MEATS AT ' ORDINARY PRICES . . . Full Beef Flavor, and FRESH GROUND MEAT . . . . . . ll>. 38c From Choice Beef * POT ROAST . . . . . . Ib. 38c From Choice Veal ROUND STEAK . . .... lb. 68c Veal Brisket Stew or ROAST . . . . . . . lb. 28c From Choice Beef CLUB STEAK . . . . ... lb. 68c Heart o’ Texas HENS . . lb. 55c Heart o’ Texas FRYERS ... . . lb. 55c Freshly Made POTATO SALAD . . .... Ih. 28c Big Jumbo Bologna or PRESSED HAM . . . .... lb. 48c Hormel’s MIDWEST BACON . tt .... lb, 68c * PRODUCE SPECIALS ★ At Last—Home Grown Hort. Farm FRESH TOMATOES. lb. 25c US No. 1 California POTATOES 10 lbs. 49c Size 176 Florida JUICE ORANGES doz. 43c Home Grown Red Table PLUMS lb. 17c Large Fruit—Central American BANANAS . . . . . . 2 lbs. 21c ► ■i mi ★ FROZEN FOODS ★ — Honor or Birdseye — Honor or Birdseye Green Peas . . 2 pkgs. Honor or Birdseye Spinach ... 2 pkgs. Honor or Birdseye—CHOPPED Broccoli ... 2 pkgs. Morton’s Individual CHICKEN POT PIES . . . 12 Oz. Donna Dean or Snow Ci - op STRAWBERRIES Zz Gallon Holiday MELLORINE . . . . 6 Oz. Snowcrop ORANGE JUICE .... ★ GROCERY SPECIALS ★ 39c • . . each 27c . 3 pkgs. $1.00 . . each 55c . 2 cans 35c Imperial Cane SUGAR . . . . 5 lbs. 39c Maxwell House COFFEE . . . . . lb. 79c Junket Powders for Making ICE CREAM . . pkg. lie Small But Fully Guaranteed EGGS . dozen 45c 2 Zz Cans Libby’s Sliced or Halves PEACHES . . . . each 29c 1 Lb. Box Sunshine Krispy CRACKERS . . . . each 23c Switch to Sanitary—Z2 Gallon PASTEURIZED MILK ... 2 for 71c (Plus Bottle Deposits) 14 Oz. Bottle HEINZ CATSUP .... . . . each 23c FREE RIDE During June at Playland Park for Box Ton From Large Box of FAB large box 28c For Better Baking- C R! S € 0 . . . 3 lb. can 79c Popular Brands CIGARETTES carton $2.09 Now on Sale. June Issue BETTER LIVING MAGAZINE, copy 5c Small, Very Tender GREEN PEAS large can 25c PARKAY OLEO ....... lb. 27c No. Vz Cans Tuxedo TUNA can 23c 5 Lh. Bab Kimbell’s Best FLOUR each 35c One of the Better Brands—Red Crown VIENNA SAUSAGE 2 cans 33c No. 2 Cans Gold T"m Standard TOMATOES ...... can 15c For ? Rrefreshing Summer Drink KOOLAID 6 pkgs. 25c Southside Food Market SPECIALS STARTING 4 P.M. THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH — THROUGH SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH STORE HOURS: 8 a.m.—7 p.m. Daily. Open 30 Minutes Earlier Fri. & Sat. Closed Sundays At Southwest Corner of the Campus A Complete One-Stop Market TVE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES