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flodeo sieers,
pontes offer
excitement
Collegiate cowpunch'ers
include 'N' men; coeds
vie in intersorority ride
By Paul Dinnis.
One of the big features of this
year's Farmer's Fair will be the
Horse Show and Rodeo. With
many would-be college cow-punchers
and cowgirls participating, the
show is expected to be a rip-roar-in',
leathor-punchin' affair. Nu
merous contests which will find
some contestants carrying off
honors, others "biting the dust,"
will lend the Fair a gay, carefree
air reminiscent of the Wild West.
Competition promises to be rugged
with many students entered from
both the ag and the down-town
town campuses.
The Rodeo will get under way
at 2 o'ciock. One of the rough and
tough individual convpets will be
the Wild Steer Riding contest.
Wild steers will be obtained
especially for the contest. Head
ing the list of leather-busters are
Husker footballer "Butch" Luther,
D. U. Jim Minnick, Acacia, and
Clark Kupplnger, A. T. O. Others
entered are Ed Rousek, Eric Thor,
and Don Roth, A. G. R.'s Jim Sel
zer, Phi Tsi, Max Brown, Wayne
Smiley, Fred Whitney, Lec Lig
gett, Bill Larson and Bernie Buel!.
Winner of the compet will have
proven that he is a true experi
enced cowhand, and will receive a
plaque donated by the Lincoln
"chamber of Commerce.
Exhibition polo.
An exhibition polo game will
also be staged as a Rodeo attrac
tion. With draft horses being used
for polo ponies, the game should
provide some rough ridin'. Some
of the polo players will be Don
Fitz, Farmhouse and "N" club
president, fullback "Eig Boy"
Wayne Blue, A. G. R., Phil Grand,
Phi Gam, Dick Young, D. U., Wen
del Basye. A. T. O., Tom Bodie,
Acacia, and Jim McDougal.
Femininity will also be repre
sented in the Horse Show by the
Inter-sorority riding contest. Back
to defend her championship won
last year, will be Lillie Luttgen,
Alpha Phi and president of the
Inter-sorority Riding club.
Another riding competition will
be the Western Stock-saddle Ride.
This ride i3 a mixed ride, with a
co-ed and her partner riding the
same horse. A plaque will also be
presented to the winning due in
this affair.
A five-gaited horse from the Du
Teau stables will put on an exhi
bition showing the paces required
of horses entered in larger horse
phows.
" Another rodeo contest will be
the calf roping contest. Two men
form a team. One of them lassoes
the calf while the other one ties it.
The winners of this competition
will receive a plaque.
A milking contest in which con
testants will attempt to milk wild
cows will also be held in the after
noon. The Fair management would
like to have more cantestants en
tered for the events. If anyone
wishes to enter any of the contests
he may do so by calling Keith
Gilmore (tel. no. 6-5027).
Pike addresses
publicity men
DES MOINES. Lawrence Pike,
instructor in journalism and as
sistant in the editorial and public
ity department of the university,
discussed "Judging Newsphotos,"
at the closing meeting of the
American College Publicity Asso
ciation here today. Other speakers
in the photography session in
eluded Vernon Pope, editor of
Look magazine, George Yates,
chief Dhotoerapher of the Des
Moines Register and Tribune, and
Randolph Fort of the University
of Alabama.
Three alumni visit
geology department
Recent visitors in the depart
ment of geology were George Da
vis '37, geologist with the Stand
ard Oil company, at Venezuela,
South America; Glen Ruby, '10,
head of the exploration depart
ment for the Argentine govern
nient, Buenos Aires; and Richard
Reese, '23, geologist with the
Standard Oil company of Califor
nia, Los Angeles.
Tripping light
blooms is fun
Here we are again on the ag
front.... I don't know why they
send us city slickers to cover stuff
we know nothing of, but then, that
is what makes the newspaper busi
ness so what it is.... Find out
about this alfalfa, the editor or
dered, as he kicked our feet off
his desk, and gave me a good ar
ticle on "tripping" the alfalfa
blooms. .
Well, I know as much about
tripping alfalfa as I do about what
size girdle my great-grandmother
wore, but as near as we could dis
cover from our unearthings on ag
campus today, to "trip" alfalfa,
you do not put your foot in front
of the plant and let it fall face
forward. . .it's a much more scien- j of thp tWQ part3 of he keel tripped and -Cross-fertilized flowers
tific process. (the ked ig in the center of the, as from untripped, self -fertilized
Itty-ijitty weed. flower and is made up of two oueis
The story of the teeny-weenie petals) at the top, to release the So it seems as if the Megachile.
alfalfa is about like this: Agron- staminal column (the reproductive a minute little bug, is of utmost
omists have been out on the pro- parts of the flower) which sr rings importance in alfalfa raising. The
verbial limb for a number of years out suddenly like a catapault and drawback, according to entomolog
as to why such a small amount showers pollen over the immediate ists, is that it is impractical to
of seed is produced on alfalfa in surroundings. This tripping may attempt propagation of the leaf
proportion to the number of flow- be automatic, that is, caused by cutter bug, althought, care can be
ers it produces. Dr. H. M. Tysdal, physiological conditions of the exercised by farmers to preserve
university agronomist, started plant, or by external factors such their colonized homes in the
making studies and experiments at as wind, rain, or intense heat; or ground.
Alpha Zcfra pick
new members;
to elect officers
Alpha Zeta, national agricul
tural college honorary scholastic
society, has elected new members
to be initiated late this spring.
Names of the newly-elected mem
bers will not be revealed until the
initiation.
Milo Tesar, senior from Tobias,
heads the honorary society as
chancellor. Jack Carter, Chappell,
is censor, and Willis Skrdla, De
witt, is the scribe. Robert Messer
smith, Alliance junior, is treas
urer. Chailes Gardner, Tecum-
seh, is chronicler of the organiza
tion. Election of officers for the com
ing year will be held shortly after
initiation.
Farmer's Fair calls for a lot of
preparation. To make the Fair, on
Saturday, the best ever, ag stu-
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fantastic through alfalfa
and definitely instructive
Scottsbluff in 193G. L. A. Clark,
graduate student from Utah, was
assisting him. In 1939 co-operative
work on alfalfa producing was
done in several midwestcrn states,
including Nebraska, and also in
the west-coast state of Oregon. All
this research and study was com
bined into a paper on "tripping"
which. Dr. Tysdal presented at a
meeting of the American Society
of Agronomy at New Orleans last
December.
The alfalfa bloom is fundamen
tally the typical legume flower. . .
such as the sweet-pea. It is funda
mentally the same except that it
ig of sm.lller proportions. The
,.... fl, .inr,inp... iq th nnrt.
Nursery students
abound with
Fair enthusiasm
Fever is at a high pitch on the
Ag college campus, where farm
ers and farmerettes are looking
forward with much anticipation to
the Farmer's Fair. Amidst so
much enthusiasm it is surprising
to find that the biggest boosters
of the fair are not the Ag college
students but youngsters in the
Ag nursery school.
All of their present school work
deals only with the Fair. They
refuse to listen to stories which
are not about the Fair. All the
pictures they draw are about the
coming attraction. One young
ster's mother has made for each
of the nursery pupils a Farmer's
Fair bandana, similar to those
worn by Ag college students.
Farm col legians prepare for big event
dents have been doing & lot of
hustling. An idea of some of the
activities is given in the pictures
it may be mechanical, caused by
insects that come to the plant to
collect nectar and pollen.
Bugs best.
These bugs, it seems are the
most effective alfalfa trippers...
especially, the Megachiles, or leaf
cutter bee. And to add to the bene
fits of tripping by the lcaf-cuttcr
bees, there is the element of cross
fertilization. Under controlled con
ditions flowers that were tripped
and cross-fertilized produced three
times as much seed as these
tripped and self-fertilized. . .and
also the work of these little bugs
aids the alfalfa in that the trip
ping resulted in the production of
150 times as much seed from
Dietitians get
interne jobs
for coming year
Graduating dietitians wore an
expectant look around the first of
April for that was the day tele
grams began to arrive telling of
appointments for next year's in
terneships. April Fool's Day 1910
proved to be a successful one along
this line for graduating Nebraska
dietitians.
Appointments made to date:
Maxine Armstronr, WashinKton Slate
Hospital, Seattle, Washington; Gertrude
Blnker, University Hospital, Cleveland,
Ohio; Wooille Campbell. I'resnyterinn Hos
pital, New York City; Marjnrle Karrnr,
University of MIchlKan Hospital, Ann Ar
bor, Michigan.
Owen Hurley, St. Mary'f Hospital,
Rochester, Minnesota; Mane Knickrchm,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Min
nesota; Joy Pstal, Ciood Samaritan llos
plta', Portland, OrcKon; Mary Kllen
Sweeney, Michael Reese Hospital, ChiraEo,
Illinois; Helen Trimble, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
l.i Von Boner, University of ChicAgo Hos
pital, Chicago, Illinois.
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above. Typical of the Fair will r-eof stallions, and the watching of
the "dunking" of ng students who the rodeo from the top of the
do not wear overalls, the showing fences.
Wednesday, May 1, 1940
I Ag-gravations . . .
Everyone goes
ino yearly
'sccisil swim'
With everyone going to clashes
in overalls and gingham dresnea,
ag campus has suddenly turned
definitely rural. The horse thnk
near the ag engineering building is
very much in evidence these days
and very few are, offending the
popular custom of dress.
Some of the follows who were
"the first day swimmers" were
Max Towne, Waller Crawley and
several others whom we could not
identify after the ducking.
Home ec girls blush immediately
vhen talk of men being tanked is
brought up but they get just as
close to the tank as they can. It
seems that last year the men weie
allowed to remove their suits but
too much interest was shown on
the part of these ag lassies so that
this year the men must gd in with
their pants on.
Ducking hangover.
Montee Baker, Sigma Xi, Gam
ma Sigma Delta, Alpha Zeta, i.nd
Farmhouse still hasn't cooled oif
from the ducking he received last
year and as a result says he will
not help on the fair thi3 year. This
means more tanking for Montee.
To speak of other things, it
seems that Marvin Knise and Op!e
Hedlund finally made up their
minds and Ople is now wearing his
pin.
Since Daniel Boone has had his
recent romantical troubles with
one Myer girl his big question is
"Oh why do tilings seem sweeter
far when we possess them not?"
Ed Rousek, Fair Board manager,
seems to be saving all his spare
moments for an Alpha Xi Delta,
Ben Alice Day.
With the Fre-Fair dance tonight
will come the opening of the long
awaited Farmers' Fair and all the
activities connected which promise
to keep 1,000 ag students very
busy for the remainder of the
week.
New officers Installed at the
AGR house the other evening are:
Kieth Gilmore, president; Rusfel
Pfeiffer, vice-president; and Arlo
Wirth, treasure.
tlnwln Journal and Ptnf.