The Magical % % Poetry The Black Light Theater of Prague t/ S/ c rv )xkm, songwruc: and philosopher will speak at 7 p.m. in Rudder Audit rium. Admission is free. JUDICIAL BOARD: applications for the Student Body j ciai Board will be available to in the Student Govemir Office, 213 Pavilion, through Friday. Positions are open sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students. TAMU VARSITY WOMEN'S SOCCER: will practice M day through Friday at 6 p.m. on the Polo Field, behindZ.* hary. Any experienced players interested in plaving sheuk contact Dr. Sue Beall at 845-4502. DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: auditions for tap. ImUci, rnodcr jazz.and point teachers at 7 p.m. in 268 E. K\le. FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet ip * p.m. m 137 & 137 A MSC. TAMU MENS LACROSSE CLUB: is prat tiring at 4 p.m o ery day on the Main Drill Field. Everyone is welcome. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have* a team meeting to disaw new boats and upcoming regattas at 7 p.m. in 109 MiBtan Sciences. Wednesday WOMEN IN COMMUNICATION, INC.: is having a mem bership reception at 7:30 in 145 MSC. New memljcn art welcome. MESQUITE HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in40? Rudder. SWAMP: is meeting at 8 p.m. at Suilv to elect officers and dir cuss projects. OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 601 Rud der to discuss open positions, Off-Campus Nile and bon MSC BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: is meeting at ’ p.m. in 701 Rudder. AGGIE GOP: is meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. Stait i fSenator “Buster” Brown will speak. * I CLUB: is meeting at 5:30 at Mr. Gatti’s in tht Center. Everyone is welcome. AL FORUM: is meeting at 8 p.rn. in 301 Rudder. TEXAS AScU POLO CLUB: is meeting at 7:30 in the Animal Industries lecture room. All new member are welcome. AGGIE BOWLING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder to discuss tryouts for the traveling team and league organ! F ’85: will meet at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder to discuss MARKETING SOCIETY: is having an Aloha Party at Bee Creek Park at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Resurgence of small farms as medium ones disappear United Pr^ss International WASHINGTON — The nation’s medium-sized farms keep disap pearing, but the smallest ones are showing skyrocketing growth, the Census Bureau reported Monday. Every state except South Carolina mowed increases in small farms. Texas showed the most growth in number, adding about 14,000 new tarms of 50 acr^ s or less, an increase P ercem from 1978 through 1982. Vermont's 59 percent growth in the smallest farms amounted to only 1,026 new farms. Farms of 50 acres or less grew 17 ?oQo en t- over four years through 1982, the bureau said. It was enough to shrink the national average size of a a rever sal from the pattern early in the 1970s. But mediuni-sized farms, the heart of American agriculture, are declining in number. The big opera tions, which often absorb the me- C * 1 '-r*u' S1Zec ^ ^ arr hS> stayed steady. , Tbe strong growth of small farms L e P l overa ll decline in the num ber of farms down to less than 1 per cent in the fourvy ear period, one of the smallest declines in recent de- cades. By 1982, there were 2.241 HyzH farms C ° m P ared to 2 - 257 in r s * ze °f an American farm, 449 acres i n 1978, dropped to 439 acres in 1984. I hat s very unusual, because for years the farms have been getting Ma^Burch 26 ’ ^ bureaU ana,ySt , ^ Ut , ty> 5 cen sus of agriculture we the number of medium sized farms, tho se from 50 to 999 tQ7 e i’ d ^ d , 1 ooo b y 209,000 between I^V nd I 9 ? 2 ’ to 1 -442,203. That’s C !V| C about 1.6 percent a year, farms have multiplied on th^ f nn & es 0 * cit ies, suggesting that f rmS P art -time pursuits of ^ “n- e wor ^ in g full time elsewhere. Its some sort of sociological phe- n ’ Bu u rch said. “We aren’t fantns > ’’ SUre who ’ s £ot those smaller The popularity of “pick-your- own do-it-yourself plots is also cred- farm r ^urgence of small plots. L AN. bo< mi formal da\ ni 34 • > can li ma nit wit h 3 Dallas over tl season The over ol in cash Hofl and w bai ker ball scoope yards t next j) lef t en defend Ms Ai the op< ; On i Green willing fifth-n the tra cfiptetl and re las 44 Lansfo to "> '■ 1 5:25 of Tht- up will on (he Burch speculated that appareitf big farms, pressed for casn, til. sold off small i The latest census study showed! change among the biggest far® made up of whiit used to be I* dium-sized family run operations The number of farms with 2,(1 acres or more rose by 1,224 infd years to 64,525. The comparatively few larf farming operations had a huge,if ten dominant share of product and sales, as indicated by these c? sus numbers: • Only 1 percent of the farf sold 43 percent of the cattle. • Only 2 percent of the farmit operations raised 79 percent of ill poultry. • 16 percent of the farms sold" percent of ah hogs. I