The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 09, 1965, Image 7

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    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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
NSF Renews
Summer Grant
A National Science Foundation
grant for a summer program in
geology and geophysics has been
renewed, according to C. M.
Loyd, Foundation coordinator.
The grant of $73,080 allows the
program to be given at A&M
for the fifth year.
About 32 students for two six-
week periods are expected, said
Dr. Melvin C. Schroeder, geology
professor.
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