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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1965)
J|-|£ BATTALION Thursday, December 9, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 7 It’s that time of the year again when a number of graduating seniors in the College of Agriculture waste about eight hours of their time. It is time for Graduate Records Exams. These Exams may have a purpose, but for agriculture students, I can see hardly any purpose for them, especially the advanced tests. There is, at the most, maybe two or three topics that relate anywhere near to agriculture. The rest are for engineering stu dents, or students in arts and sciences. GRE are required, so why aren’t tests administered which are related somewhat to the stu dent’s field of study? ★ ★ ★ In a recent address, Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant dean of agricul ture, pointed out some of the demands for agricultural graduates. He said many people think of agriculture from the production stand point only and can’t seem to grasp a true picture of total agriculture. In doing this they don’t realize only 10 to 15 per cent of the stu dents in the College of Agriculture return to production. He listed a number of catagories in which students are needed. Some are: Research — About 9,000 research scientists are in agricultural experiment stations, 6,000 with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and another 8,500 in industry. Education — The demand is increasing tremendously for high school biology teachers and vocational agriculture teachers. Not only do high schools need more teachers, but junior colleges also want to hire agriculture graduates. He says, “Our own university cannot meet the demand for extension workers in Texas.” Industry — Agriculture students with specialized knowledge are in demand by many industries ranging from oil companies to land scape concerns. Business — Banking, credit, insurance, land appraisal, market ing, public utilities, sales and cooperatives are only a few such areas. Communications — Openings are availible with colleges, ex tension services, experiment stations, farm publications, advertising agencies, radio and TV stations and newspapers. Conservation and Recreation — Federal, state and local agencies are becoming more and more aware of demands for such programs. ★ ★ ★ A prominent farm magazine editor has brought up the idea of farming in the Astrodome. His thinking sounds fine, but I wonder how Astrodome owners would take to the idea. Sam Whitlow, Texas editor of Farmer-Stockman, says if a per son could farm inside the dome results would be astounding. With year-round weather control and irrigation plus fertilization crops could be grown in fantastic amounts. He says laugh if you like, but a huge building along the lines of the Astrodome (without the ornate and costly features and high ceiling) might well be used to house a system of crop production 365 days a year. The farmer could produce two crops of cotton or two crops of wheat a year—and have several crops of vegetables. Man could control the humidity of the building, water when the crops needed it, change temperatures when desirable and probably not be worried with insects. What do I think ? Well, I’ve seen too many things change in agriculture to say it won’t be done. ★ ★ ★ One of the latests innovations to save the farmer ( or his son) a lot of work is a “Rock Picker.” Yes, I said a rock picker. An Amarillo based firm supplies the ingenuous machines manufac tured in North Dakota. The “Rock Picker” is pulled behind any two to five plow tractor and scoops rocks up with a fork, then dumps them into a hopper. When the hopper is full, the tractor operator drives to a selected spot and dumps the load. And with the advances in crossbreeding, the Aggie who stumbled onto a pile of milk bottles in the pasture and though he had found a cow’s nest, might not be crazy after all. Read Classifieds Daily Rowan Heads Safety Study Neal Rowan, assistant research engineer for the Texas Transpor tation Institute here, has been named project director of a $367,000 study of break away supports for highway signs, lights and utilities. Rowan’s appointment to head the 18-month study was an nounced by Dr. Charles Pinnell, TTI’s Design and Traffic En gineering Department head. Pin nell is project administrator. The study is three-pronged 1 . One is development of design criteria for safer sign support and utility structures. Two is a study of feasibility of devices to safely decelerate an automo bile before contact is made with a fixed object. Three involves investigation of new concepts in sign design to reduce effects of wind loads. M. D. Shelby, TTI research en gineer, is secretary of the ad visory committee, which includes representatives from 12 sponsor ing states. Shelby will coordi nate the research with the com mittee. Robert M. Olson, TTI assistant research engineer, will head the sign support study. P. D. Wein er, also a TTI assistant research engineer, will direct the decelera tion device probe, and a leader is to be named about Jan. 1 for the sign design concept research. Technical advisors are Dr. T. J. Hirsch, TTI Structural Research department head; Dr. C. H. Sampson, Civil Engineering de partment head; and Professor Charles J. Keese, TTI executive officer. Tom C. Edwards, TTI assist ant research engineer, will work with Olson, primarily in develop ment of mathematical concepts. A. M. Gaddis, associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering, is project instrumentation spe cialist. Thomas G. Williams, TTI re search assistant, will manage the support service group, comprised of technicians, mechanics, labor ers and part-time student em ployes. The research is in progress at the A&M Research Annex. 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