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THE BATTALION Wednesday, August 25, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 9 ■■BHHnHRHHHMMHMBHBHmHHBi PROTECT YOUR AGGIELAND! PLASTIC COVERS ARE NOW ON SALE IN THE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE SECOND FLOOR SERVICES BUILDING New state industry Sorghum progress report ready “Grain Sorghum Research in Texas—1970,” a progress report which describes an entirely new industry in the state, has just come off the presses at Texas A&M. The 120-page publication was compiled by researchers and spe cialists in the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Tex as Agricultural Extension Serv ice. It will be introduced and made available to persons attend ing the Grain Sorghum Field Day Aug. 2G at the TAMU Agricul tural Research Station at Chilli- cothe. Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the A&M College of Agriculture and acting director of the Experiment Station, said the grain sorghum story, as outlined in the publica tion, is a good example of what a land-grant university can do for an agricultural commodity. He said the report is especially significant in view of the more than $.‘100 million in cash receipts which Texas-grown grain sor ghum has provided for the past four years. Receipts totaled more than $350 million in 1970. About one in every $8 in cash receipts from all commodities marketed by Texas farmers has been from grain sorghum. In 1970, 5.9 million acres of the crop were grown in the state with a yield of more than 330 million bushels, exceeding 40 per cent of the entire U.S. crop. Kunkel said a marked effect of the grain supply has been the growth of the livestock feeding industry. There were 3.138 mil lion cattle finished and marketed from Texas feedlots last year. The state is now third in the na tion in numbers of cattle on feed. “T e x a s A&M University, through its research and exten sion work with grain sorghum for more than 50 years, helped lay the foundation for this suc cess,” the director said. only 25 THE OFFICIAL Dallas Cowboy “Insiders” NEWSLETTER I Read it evefy Friday in The Dally Eagle This is the official authorized Dallas Cowboy publication jjij that sells by subscription for $6.00 a year, brought free to iji; X; X; you each Friday only in the Daily Eagle. THE NEWSLETTER CONTAINS INFORMATION v AND SCOUTING REPORTS ABOUT THE DALLAS ► COWBOYS AND THEIR UPCOMING OPPONENT FOR THE WEEK. IT FEATURES STORIES AND COMMENTS BY THE MOST RESPECTED SPORTS WRITERS AND PERSONALITIES, SUCH AS: FRAHK GIFFORD FRANK LUKSA sports editor ANDY ANDERSON sports editor KYLE ROTE FOOTBALL ANALYST BLACKIE SHERROD sports editor SPORTS ANNOUNCER ABC-TV FT. WORTH STAR TELEGRAM FT. WORTH PRESS NBC-TV DALLAS TIMES HERALD m _ ■ : *> j •QrKjS'i nn« in.r o-.uju Welcome Back Fighting Texas Aggies ! ! 1971 Texas A&M University Football Schedule Sept. 11 WICHITA STATE at College Station Sept. 18 LOUISIANA STATE at Baton Rouge Sept. 25 NEBRASKA at Lincoln Oct. 2 CINCINNATI at College Station Oct. 9 TEXAS TECH at Lubbock Oct. 16 TEXAS CHRISTIAN at Fort Worth Oct. 23 BAYLOR at College Station Oct. 30 ARKANSAS at Little Rock Nov. 6 SOUTHERN METHODIST at College Station Nov. 13 RICE at Houston Nov. 25 TEXAS at College Station Since 1946 Member F.D.I.C. C f / Yn£twi4tf</ ^ N.A.T X OISrA.X_, f 3= COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS 77840 "We're counting on your experience and you can count on ours.' 'On the side of Texas A&M'