Opportunities Offered
In Poultry Department
A&M now possesses one of the
most modem and complete poultry
plants in the Southwest. Built of
masonry blocks, the buildings on
the 150-acre poultry farm were
planned not only with permanence
of construction and beauty in mind,
but for efficient operation with
a minimum of labor.
The central building, located on
the north-east side of the farm, is
the center of operation. It furnishes
facilities for incubation, egg grad
ing, post mortem, processing,
freezing, sales of poultry products
and houses the farm offices and
laboratory classrooms.
Other buildings include a battery
brooder house with feed and
sterilizing rooms, four broiler
houses; three trap houses (one
for laying and two for breeding
work), twelve farm type laying
houses, four large individual laying
cage houses; one turkey brooder
house, one turkey breeder house
and six turkey flock houses. Mis
cellaneous buildings include a feed
mixing building for research and a
feed mixing and pelleting building,
truck and tractor garage, vehicle
and implement storage pole - type
building, labor headquarters and
repair shop, farm superintendent’s
home, three labor cottages, three
storage houses and a number of
portable range shelters.
The incubator capacity is 50,000.
Sixty thousand chicks and 3,000-
5,000 poults are hatched annually.
Chicken layers and breeders num
ber 700 and turkey breeders num
ber 400 to 600.
Breeds of chickens maintained
include White Leghorns, New i which is the largest show of its
Hampshires, White Rocks, Inbred kind in the Southwest. This show
Lines and Crosses. Turkey breeds gives all club members a chance to
maintained include Broadbreasted
Bronze and Beltsville Small White.
The main student organization in
the Poultry Science Department is
the Poultry Science Club. The Club
sponsors two poultry judging
teams each year: the junior judging
team which competes in the Southr
ern Collegiate Poultry Judging
Contest and the senior judging
team which competes in the Na
tional Show at Chicago. Each
fall before the senior team leaves
for Chicago, the club honors them
with a banquet. The graduating
seniors are feted with a chicken
fry each spring. The “big” func
tion sponsored by the club is the
Texas Chick, Poult and Egg Show,
take an active part in their chosen
field.
The department is in a position
to offer graduate work in the fields
of poultry genetics and breeding,
poultry nutrition and feeding, in
cubation, brooding and rearing and
poultry processing and marketing.
Growth of the poultry industry and
the need for a rapid expansion of
scientific and technical knowledge
in the various fields of science basic
to Successful poultry husbandry
have supplied motivation for the
development of graduate courses.
Modern intensive methods of pro
ducing poultry meat and eggs make
advanced study on the graduate
level very desirable.
Floriculture
Three Main
Offers
Fields
Floriculture is one of the nation’s most rapidly expand
ing industries with business volume topping the billion dollar
mark each year.
The industry offers many opportunities to young, pro
gressive, well-trained people. Among them is the opportunity
to own his own business.
Recent graduates are about
equally divided into three
groups: one engages in grow
ing and selling flowers,
shrubs, trees and other orna
mental plants; one in the phases
of the industry that distribute
Ag Engineering
Vital to Farming
Agricultural engineering is the application of the funda
mental phases of engineering to the requirements of agri
culture.
Training is given the agricultural engineer in both en
gineering and agriculture which, with experience in integra
ting the two, will qualify him to design, develop, organize and
direct engineering work in ag
riculture and closely allied in
dustries.
Agricultural engineer-
ing covers four major phases
of activity—farm power and ma
chinery, farm buildings and struc
tures, farm electrification and soil
and water conservation.
Farm power usually designates
the farm tractor, but includes all
self-propelled vehicles. Machinery
includes all implements and de
vices consuming power on the
farm. The agricultural engineer
designs farm machinery and pow
er units for every type of farm
usage. He then demonstrates their
use and capabilities to the farmer
and counsels the farmer’s selection.
Farm structures include barns,
shops, silos, farm homes and vari
ous other farm buildings. Here
the agricultural engineer concerns
himself with the economic aspects
of structures. It challenges his
imagination and calls for good
judgement plus a knowledge of
climate, heating and ventilation,
physical factors and availability
of supplies.
Farm electrification deals with
all the uses of electricity in rural
conditions. It is not so much elec
trical engineering as it is.the ap
plication of electricity for power,
heat, and light for agricultural
purposes.
Soil and water conservation con
sists largely of irrigation, drain
age and control of soil erosion
Here the agricultural engineer ap
plies his knowledge of runoff con
trol, flood retarding structures,
terracing, and crop growing. He
is able to apply his education and
experience to keeping America
beautiful and productive.
The American Society of Agri
cultural Engineers is a group of
agricultural engineers having
common core of experience who
promote research, experimenta
tion and other work in agricultural
engineering. The A&M Student
Branch of ASAE is an active or
ganization working under the par
ent society to develop leadership,
stimulate interest and promote em
ployment opportunities for agri
cultural engineering students.
Agricultux-al engineering is a
challenging profession with oppor
tunities unlimited for the young
man who has a desire to maintain
and improve the resources of our
country.
these products and the third group
is engaged in teaching and re
search activities in the field of
floriculture.
Closely related to horticulture
and other plant sciences, floricul
ture centers around trees, shrubs,
and flowers which add to the
charm and beauty of landscaped
areas. A floriculturist usually sup
ervises the actual planting and
growing operations for the land
scape architect.
A&M offers excellent new lab
oratory facilities including a
greenhouse range consisting of
more than 15,000 square feet of
glass, a large collection of plants
for student use, facilities and
materials for study of greenhouse
management, nursery management,
plant propagation and best control.
Twenty-five acres of nursery
stock, 2,200 square feet of lath-
house and over 500 species
and varieties of woody ornamental
plants are available for training
in nursery management and land
scape maintenance.
Dairy Science Dept.
Agriculture is a very Vital part
of our economy today. / Consider
ing the many fields, dairying is
one of the most essential. The
Department of Dairy Science at
A&M is well equipped with ade
quate facilities to interest those
who want to “dairy.”
The A&M College Dairy Cattle
Center, situated “across the
tracks,” is an outstanding achieve
ment of the Dairy Science Depart
ment. The 801 - acre Dairy Cen
ter and farm consists of a feeding
barn, six stall milking parlor, 400
foot shelter barn, calf barn and
maternity barn. There are also
seven upright silos, two trench
silos and two hay bax-ns. On the
farm land atlas sorghum is grown
for silage, while cultivated pastures
include sudan grass, sweet clover,
oats, barley and winter legumes.
The recently completed Daily
Breeding Center, which houses the
hex'd sires, provides facilities for
research and teaching in artificial
breeding.
The dairy herd itself consisting
of Jerseys, Holsteins, and Jersey-
Brahaman Crosses, totals 415 in
number. Of these 177 cows are in
milk with a daily production of
44 lbs. per cow. Along with the
experimental projects and research,
the dairy provides 700 gallons of
milk daily to the campus for stu-^
dent consumption.
The A&M Creamery, which pro
cesses the milk, is another vital
part of the dairy department. This
summer a new modern creamery
will be finished and operating in
full swing. This creamery pro
cesses the milk and milk pro
ducts, such as ice cream, cheese
and butter, but provides a working
laboratory for all Dairy Science
students. Many students work at
the center and creamery to help
pay their way through school.
When majoring in Dairy Science
at A&M, a student has a choice of
either the production or manu
facturing phase of dairying. Al
though both are closely related,
the production phase deals with
breeding, feeding, nutrition and
management, while the manu
facturing favors processing, sanita
tion and special products. ,
No matter what phase of dairy
ing is prefei’red, the Dairy Science
Department offers opportunities
in that field.
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A&M’s MILK sanitation plant is one of the finest in the nation. It offers.a great op
portunity for agriculture majors to study the best in milk sanitation.
Ag Journalism
Command Top
( Jr ad nates
Positions
Agricultural journalism is a
relatively new facet of learning
within the Texas A&M School of
Agriculture! But youth has long
been a symbol of boundless energy,
enthusiasm and a willingness to try
out new ideas.
While the subject has been
taught only eight years at A&M,
agi’icultural journalism graduates
have already added much to the
prestige of their college and their
profession. Taking coveted posi
tions in all fields of communica
tions—press, radio and extexxsion
—these “double duty” men have
drawn praise from officials in both
journalisxn and agriculture.
Edxication in this field pi’epares
men for a challenging future in
the business of writing. Not only
do well-trained agricultural journ
alists have the opportunity to pre
pare factual repoi'ts of new de
velopments and report current hap
penings, but it is also their mission
to pi’esent enough information for
moulding the thoughts and shap
ing the opinions of our farm popu
lation.
Ag journalism at A&M embodies
a well-planned combination of
technical training in agriculture
with a detailed, comprehensive
study of journalism principles.
Actually it is a technical journal
ism coui’se supplying a broad
knowledge of agidculture.
Certain questions usually come
up in any discussion of this course.
Many of its objectives are mis
understood and misinterpreted.
Does ag journalism limit a man to
the field of agriculture? Certainly
not! Many students interested in
farm life have elected to major
in this field with every intention
of entei’ing straight communica
tions.
Journalism training in this cur
riculum is intensive, including news
reporting, editing, advertising,
typography, feature writing, radio
and TV wi'iting, as well as news
paper management. An agricul
tural journalism graduate can cap
ably assume any communications
position on an equal footing with
the straight journalism major.
Civilian Banquet
Tonight In MSC
The third annual Civilian Stu
dent Council Banquet will be held
tonight at 6:30 in the Dining Room
of the Memorial Student Center.
All members and six special
guests will attend the affair. The
guests include: Bennie A. Zinn,
Head of Student Affairs and spon
sor of the banquet; Pete Hardesty,
of Student Activities; Robert
Kamm, dean of the Basic Division
and Student Personnel Services;
and civilian student counselors,
Robert O. Murray Jr., William G.
Breazeale and Philip R. Camp
bell.
Bill Clark, Civilian Student
Council president, will give a im
port of the work of the council
for the past year and will present
keys to this years members for
services rendered on the council.
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