THE BATTALION
Pag:e 2 College .Station, Texas Thursday, June 8, 1961
A&M Completes
Highway Research
Improvement of asphalts to ef
fect greated serviceability on the
state’s highways has been the sub-
of a research project recently com
pleted by the Texas Transportation
Institute at Texas A&M in coop
eration with the Texas Highway
Department.
The investigation revolved about
changes which occurred in asphalt
cements taken from test roads
during six years of service. Both
physical and chemical changes
ResolutionAdopted
For A&M’s Help
In Ag Program
The Texas Board of Corrections
has approved a resolution in ap
preciation of the Texas A&M Sys
tem’s long-time co-operation with
the Texas Department of Correc
tions agricultural program. ♦
The announcement was made by
President Earl Rudder following
his receipt of a letter and a copy
of the resolution from O. B. Ellis,
director of the Department of Cor
rections.
Personnel of the A&M College
System have provided invaluable
assistance to the Department of
Corrections in making numerous
improvements in prison farm oper
ations, the resolution said. When
ever agricultural problems have
confronted the Department of
Corrections, A&M has made its
personnel and facilities readily
available.
The resolution was signed by
Ellis; H. H. Coffield, chairman of
the Texas Board of Corrections;
Walter L. Pflger, chairman of the
Agriculture Committee of the
Board; and B. W. Frierson, assist
ant director in charge of agricul
ture for the Department of Cor
rections.
were found to take place in the
road material. Methods used in the
laboratory to predict these altera
tions successfully distinguished the
capacities of asphalt to change.
The principal investigators on
the project, Rudolf A. Jimenez, as
sistant research engineer, and Bob
M. Callaway, research engineer, of
Texas Transportation Institute
found also that construction proce
dures are of “paramount import
ance in their effects on perform
ance of asphaltic pavements”
In their report, the engineers
state further that “it has been com
mon knowledge for many years
that design and construction pow
erfully influence the success of a
job regardless of material quality.
Material quality is none the less
important. The best job will, of
course, result when proper atten
tion is directed toward good de
sign, adequate inspection by a
qualified inspector, and good con
dition techniques.”
Samples of asphalt were taken
at 11 sites in Texas at the time of
road construction in 1954. Samples
were taken at yearly intervals
thereafter for visual and laboratory
comparison with the original, or
unexposed, asphalt. Analysis iso
lated those asphaltic compounds
which failed to withstand condi
tions of temperature, rainfall, and
service to which they are normally
subjected.
Recommendations offered by the
Texas Transportation Institute re
search team include specific sug
gestions in the areas of testing
asphalts and of construction.
Among the proposed tests are a
rotary-type viscometer for deter
mining consistency and an aging
or artifical weathering test for
guaging the aging susceptibilities
of asphalts. In the area of con
struction, recommendations in
clude improving the surface-to-
base bond and using double surface
treatments.
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Veterinarians Should Do More
Preventive Treatment of Stock
Veterinarians should begin shift
ing emphasis from “trouble shoot
ing” treatment of livestock to pre
ventive medicine, Dr. W. A. Hagan
of the National Animal Disease
Laboratory at Ames, Iowa, said
this week.
The scientist, a speaker at the
14th annual Texas Conference for
Veterinarians held May 31-June 2
at A&M, said such an emphasis
shift would be especially impor
tant in future years, when there
may not be a surplus of food in
the United States as there is today.
Dr. Hagan explained that there
are about 2.75 billion persons in
the world today. That figure is
expected to make big jumps in
the next decade and probably will
double 50 years from now. Food
shortage is almost a certainty un
less the challenge is met.
“It is the duty of each veteri
narian to practive preventive medi
cine whenever possible to cut live
stock losses,” the speaker said.
“This means more research from
private sources, schools of veteri
nary medicine and agricultural ex
periment stations. Disease pre
ventive methods should be preach
ed to farmers and ranchers.”
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the
A&M Department of Veterinary
Parasitology and general program
chairman, said that about 325 ani
mal doctors attended the session.
That was approximately 30 per
cent of the veterinarians in Texas.
The session is held each year to
bring veterinarians up on the lat
est developments in their profes
sion. It is sponsored by the A&M
School of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. R. W. Moore, assistant pro
fessor of veterinary medicine at
A&M, outlined progress of the spe
cific pathogen-free (SPF) swine
program in Nebraska, Iowa, and
Texas.
SPF, he emphasized, is a disease
control program and does not in
volve a completely disease-free
animal except for certain patho
gens.
The program is generating much
interest among farmers in Texas
and has progressed to the breeding
age stage in swine. So far, there
are two licensed laboratories in
the state—one at Cameron and the
other at Bryan, he said.
To work with an SPF program,
Dr. Moore said a veterinarian must
be licensed, and the license is ob
tained at the University of Minne
sota. The veterinarian must work
closely with a farmer engaged in
the program and must examine his
herds periodically.
Dr. J. E. Mosier, of Kansas State
University, described his experi
ences in treating disease of young
pups. These included blood poison
ing and navel infections. Some
pups, he said, are lost when in
compatible blood is used in trans
fusions.
Staphlococcus are the most
troublesome skin infections. Con
genital problems involve strictures
in the esophgus, causing vomiting;
breathing ailments from weak nose
cartileges, and cyst swellings in
the neck.
Cultured buttermilk, Dr. Mosier
said, is being used to control
chronic diarrhea, and virulent virus
has been found effective in control
ling hard pad disease.
Dr. O. R. Adams of Colorado
State University discussed the
treatment of crooked legs in foals,
such as knock knees and buck knee,
with platser casts and braces.
Navicular disease can be diagnosed
by noting attitude of gait and
using a hoof tester over the center
third of the hoof frog.
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Wild Animals More SensiblerPi
About Young Than People \f 0
By The Associated Press
ROCKPORT, Tex. — Naturalist
say wild animals display more sense
in rearing their young than do
many humans, who shudder at the
thought of applying the strap, or
hair brush.
Baby animals and birds have in
grained the knowledge that only
through discipline can they sur
vive.
A wild turkey specialist explain
ed.
“When I see a wild turkey fam
ily, I am impressed by the un
questioning, absolute obedience the
little ones accord their mother in
stantly. Waterfowl, nesting in vast
rookeries protected by’water where
few enemies may come, are loud,
raucous, quarrelsome and thorough
exhibitionists, like many of today’s
children.”
Little turkeys, taught by instinct
and disciplined by death, don’t
hesitate a moment in obeying their
mother’s commands.
“The hen steals furtively along,
followed by her brood, each tiny
poult alert. Let something alarm
the mother and every baby van
ishes at her startled yelp, con
cealed by some bit of vegetation;
burrowing under an oak leaf or
simply freezing where they are:”
Their colors blend so perfectly
with their surroundings that, as
long as they remain motionless,
human eyes and those of most an
imals cannot separate them from
their background.
“Among wild youngsters it is a
long inheritance; A little wild
thing is trained by its mother; in
time it trains its own young. Wild
creatures obey instantly and with
out argument to save themselves
from certain death.”
Wild mothers know it is no favor
to their children to spoil them. Bad
little bears get bashed when they
sin. Fawns are taught from birth
to hate certain scents and to pass
up certain kinds of greenery.
Quail are great on discipline.
Each evening the covey huddles
together for warmth. On cold
mornings they may stay on the
roost until the sun warms things
up. Then they move, a wary, joy
ous band, to their feeding ground
where they may stay until 10 or 11.
From there they go to drink, and
then they take their naps in some
sheltered sunny clump or briar.
They lie down, and fluff their
feathers and relax, making little
beds in the soft, warm earth, dust
themselves thoroughly, drowse,
blink, and loaf for two or three
hours, almost without moving.
In the middle of the afternoon
the birds rouse themselves again
and troop back to their feeding
ground, where they stay until al
most dark.
Then they group themselves near
the spot where they roosted the
night before in a compact body,
all their heads out, so that through
the night each acts as a sentry.
“When those were tiny young
sters,” a biologist said, “their
mother taught therti the best rou
tine of life, and they had the sense
to obey. If they didn’t, they would
n’t have been here long.”
Nor are they ever too young to
mind mama. Even quail so newly
hatched that they still have bits
of shell clinging to their backs
will run madly to obey the sum
mons of the old bird when sis
calls.
“They never question, never ai
gue. They do what they’re ti R ceived hi:
and do it in a hurry.”
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Short courses on Theory and A|
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July 31-August 1-4 and 14-18. Hi
courses are sponsored by the C«
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Engineering.
Purpose of this course is topis
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solution of problems involving™
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