September, 1916. 



303 



American Hee Journal 



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AUTOMOBILE CROSSING ON TEXAS GROUNDS TO SAVE GATE OPENING 



is promptly discovered. 



The afternoon was spent at the public 

 park of New Braunfels, whence their 

 river flows. Here, as in San Antonio, 

 a very beautiful stream comes out of 

 the hillside, boiling up from the ground 

 and supplying several hundred cubic 

 feet per second, of the clearest water 

 that may be seen anywhere. It forms 

 a small lake and a river. It is fine. We 

 were told that New Braunfels was an 

 early settlement, and that the scouts 

 sent by the immigrants selected this 

 location because of these beautiful and 

 immense springs. A fine city has re- 

 sulted. 



That evening we bade good bye to 

 our hosts and to the LeStourgeons, 

 whose kindness it will be difficult for 

 us to repay. The next morning saw us 

 on the train for College Station. 



Along the railroad line planters' 

 homes, surrounded with groves and 

 built in colonial style, in level plains, 

 indicate cotton plantations. The little 

 cabins, for negro or Mexican field 

 hands, are strung in endless rows along 

 a private byway. The absence of out- 

 buildings for chickens or pigs, around 

 these cabins is striking. Is the planter 

 to blame or are the tenants too shift- 

 less to keep poultry ? No wonder there 

 should be a tendency to 'provide" by 

 visiting at night the coops of more 

 thrifty neighbors. That is the explana- 

 tion of the proverbial love of the south- 

 ern negro for chicken. It appears to 

 be a rarity. 



We expected to find something of a 

 town at College Station. But the city, 

 Bryan, is about four miles away. The 

 college is on a gentle sloping hill. 

 Professor Paddock was at the station 

 and informed us that we were to be 

 the guests of the institution, an unex- 

 pected honor. An hotel is the usual 

 stopping place of visitors at colleges. 



The Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College is not a co-educational institu- 

 tion. It is only for young men and 

 the cadets have military drills during 

 every year of their stay. This 4-year 

 drill ought to come in every United 

 States College. It would help make 

 every man a soldier, in case of need, as 

 in Switzerland, a small country with 

 democratic institutions which is now 

 setting an example to the entire world. 



The college boards its students and 

 everything is done with military pre- 



F. B Paddock, of Te.xas 



cision, the morning call and the meals 

 being announced with the bugle. 



One of the views given here shows 

 one of the main academic buildings in 

 front of which is assembled the cadet 

 corps. There are three battalions com- 

 posed of four companies each. This 

 formation is made for all meals and all 

 military maneuvers. The little building 

 shown to the right of the Academic 

 Building is Pfeuflfer Hall, one of the 

 dormitories. The part of the building 

 shown on the extreme right of the pic- 

 ture is the Civil Engineering Building, 

 in which is housed the departments of 

 Civil Engineering, Irrigation Engineer- 

 ing, Rail^yay and Highway Engineering 

 and Physics. 



The other view shows a portion of 

 the new mess hall, and to the left is 

 shown the Shirley Hotel and the Shir- 

 ley Annex. In these two buildings a 

 great many of the officers of the college 

 live and board. 



It would be out of the limits of my 

 subject to discuss or describe the main 

 agricultural studies of the college. In 

 beekeeping I found very accurate meth- 

 ods and a wonderful system. As I have 

 said before, apiary inspection is in the 

 hands of the entomologist; but it is 

 with the help of county inspectors 

 whose names are suggested to him by 

 the local associations of beekeepers. 

 This is an incentive to organization. 

 The entomologist's principal duty is 

 to tabulate the reports and to direct the 

 work. 



The investigations and statistics be- 

 gun by the previous entomologist, Mr. 

 Wilmon Newell, well-known to our 

 readers, are ahiy continued by the pres- 

 ent encumbent. Prof. Paddock. Blanks 

 to be filled are sent to the inspectors 

 and to beekeepers generally. Among 

 the questions asked is whether bee- 

 keeping is preferable as a side-line or 

 as a profession. In most States the 

 answers would almost invariably favor 

 it as a side-line. But in Texas, Bulle- 

 tin No. 58 shows 705 beekeepers favor- 

 ing beekeeping as a profession, a re- 

 markable large number, perhaps not to 

 be equaled in any other State. 



The replies as to the production of 



:APPR0ACH to THE MESS HALL AT THE TEXAS A. AND M. COLLEGE. 



