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* ■ ! ' i| ' i i Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1981 Local / State 4 V 3.1 mile fun run starts Saturday By NANCY WEATHERLEY Battalion Staff Students and faculty mem bers will be off and running Saturday in the annual Intramu ral Funrun, a 3.1 mile trek start ing on Beef Cattle Road near the Texas A&M Veterinary Medicine Complex. Called the Cross-Country Race in the past, the funrun is a special event sponsored by the Intramural Office. However, it will not count toward dormitory points in campus-wide intramu ral competition. All students are eligible to enter, as well as faculty and staff members. Intramural t-shirts will be awarded to the fastest men and women students, fas test faculty/staff members and fastest spouses. Runners may also enter a team competition for men, women and combined, co- recreational groups. Tom Weis, assistant director of intramurals, said the teams can have three — but no more than five — people per team. The co-rec team will be com posed of three men and three women. The winning team will be decided by the fastest com bination of times of its mem bers. The Intramural Office will be accepting entries all week, up until the time of the race. The cost is $1. Students need their IDs to register and faculty/staff members should bring their re creation IDs. Weis said about 60 people have registered so far; last year about 100 runners par ticipated. If it rains on Saturday, Weis said, they will still try to have the race. “Only severe weather will cause the event to be can celled,” he said. If the race is cancelled, it will he re scheduled. Eggs no sweat for cooled hens, says A&M prof Keeping a cool head in times of stress is as important to chickens as to quarterbacks, bomber pilots and presidents, particularly since chickens don’t sweat. Dr. Richard Cain, a Texas A&M poultry scientist, has found that egg production can be in creased by cooling only the heads of hens, so he developed a money saving system that cools only the tops of chicken cages. “By cooling laying houses, pro ducers can increase egg produc tion 10 to 15 percent, depending on the age of the chicken,” said Cain. “But we have found that if you just cool their heads you can increase egg production and save energy.” Heat stress during the summer can cause an 8 to 15 percent drop in production in Southern states, resulting in an estimated $20 mil lion loss to poultry producers each year. Cain explained that while humans reduce body heat through perspiration, chickens, like dogs, can only pant. “They don’t have sweat glands,” he said, “and per body weight, they loose as much moisture through their mouth as a man does through sweat glands.” Today, farmers are looking for ways to keep their animals heal thy, content and highly produc tive, Cain said. “Animal welfare is important to producers because stress reduces reproduction, resistance to dis ease, growth rates and life spans,” he said. “Keeping animals content translates into lower prices at grocery stores.” minium, — Pitcher perfect ERLANCER THE EXCEPTION IWilitllilil)ltlWi)tllllWII»lllllll»»IIIWIt»i»“ uuuulluuull ‘‘‘‘ ll ‘‘‘ OPENS OCTOBER 30TH AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU! photo by Daniel Sands! ‘Open wide Cadet Sid Walker (L) and Yell Leader John Nisbet (R) force feed Pat Garrett while the football team and the Corp of Cadets dine together in Duncan Dinin! Hall Thursday night. 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