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University Daily Kansan
Friday. May 15, 1959
KU Fisheries Aid Farmers In Building, Stocking Ponds
Approximately 100,000 farm ponds in Kansas are responsible for the development of the KU fisheries laboratory, a branch of the State Biological Survey.
During the drought a few years ago, farmers and stockmen learned their ponds were poorly built because they were too small and filled quickly with silt from ungrassed drainage.
Today the farmers are building bigger, deeper ponds that will not go dry.
These bigger ponds are better places to grow fish, and farmers want to learn what kinds of fish to stock and whether or not they should feed them, Frank Cross, assistant professor of zoology, said.
"Farm ponds are primarily built for stock (cattle) tanks, but recently more farmers are realizing their value as 'fish-farms.'
"The purpose of the KU fish laboratory is to do research in learning how to produce more fish with less money," Prof. Cross said.
20-acre Reservoir
The fish laboratory has a 20 acrefoot reservoir with a grassy run-off to store water for eight 40-by-120 foot experimental ponds with an average depth of $3 \frac{1}{2}$ feet.
Each of the eight experimental ponds is used to conduct controlled experiments to learn how crowding,
feeding, and different species living together affect the fish.
A laboratory building is used to carry on more rigidly-controlled experiments.
Thin, energetic Prof. Cross is enthusiastic about the future of piscatorial research.
"The knowledge to be learned is barely tapped. We can think up enough experiments in half an hour to use our facilities for a hundred years." he said.
Graduates Help Work
Prof. Cross is supervisor of the fish laboratory. Graduate students majoring in zoology, especially ichthyology, work with him or Kenneth B. Armitage, assistant professor of zoology.
"We are doing most of our work now with channel catfish for three reasons." Prof. Cross said.
"They are about the most popular fish in Kansas, it's my guess they will do better in small, muddy ponds than bass and bluegill, and the State Fish and Game Department requested we work with channel catfish. They provided funds in support of our research."
One of the conclusions the laboratory has drawn is farmers who fish only a few times a year would be wasting their money to feed their fish, but a person who either fishes
a great deal or fishes commercially might find feeding pays.
Other Studies Made
Besides the laboratory work at KU, the State Biological Survey conducts studies in farm ponds over the state.
"Our lab building has all kinds of practical and experimental equipment—boats, nets, chemical apparatus, and the regular tools of ichthyologists." Prof. Cross said.
He mentioned the distance between ponds, their many different sizes, and no check on fishermen's creels made rigid experimentation difficult in working with farm ponds.
"The studies we are making now will be useful to the fisheries in the future and will help them make the best economic use of their waters," Prof. Cross said.
Beal Gives Lecture
George M. Beal, chairman of the architecture department, spoke yesterday at the Structural Clay Products Institute regional meeting at Holiday Inn in Topeka. His topic was the relation of education and industry.
The Arctic tern has the longest migration route of any bird. It summers in the Arctic and winters in the Antarctic.
Signs Being Built On KU Buildings
KU's buildings are getting new name plates. Workmen are now putting up letters on five buildings, the Museum of Art, Robinson Gymnasium, Haworth and Lindley halls, and the Engineering laboratories.
The letters were designed under the direction of the department of architecture. They are made of aluminum or bronze and range in size from the five-inch letters on Bailey Hall to the 24-inch letters on Allen Field House.
The program is a result of a request from the Chancellor's office that the names of buildings be designated on the outside. All buildings will eventually be included in the program.
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TROPHIES—PICNIC—TROPHIES
J.S.C.C. SCENIC ROUTE RALLY
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START: Zone "N" North of Allen Field House register 2:00-2:15 p.m.
FINISH: Scenic lake & picnic area 5:00
SUNDAY, MAY 17, FUN FOR ALL
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MONTH'S BEST QUOTE:
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FASHIONS: With the rapid change in clothing styles for men, the news in shoes has been somewhat neglected. The new fashions afoot have given clod-hoppers of yoye the boot. While men's suits are busy adopting conservative continental styling, shoes have remained intrinsically American. For the campus
flexible leather soles, a squared-off toe and finished in neutral leather tones, is great. It affords rugged wear, masculine styling, while also suggesting dressy sportswear . . . For those black-tie evening affairs, either the four-eyetle, black oxford shoe of textured and smoothed-grain calf, or a good pair of plain black cordovans should do the trick.
sportsman, the ideal shoe is a moccasin-type slip-on of shrunk grain leather with a stitched seam and trim leather soles. Newest colors are various shades of tan and brown. For cavorting in the woods, the comfortable, casual chukka-type boot with
NEW TO THE MARKET:
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WHAT SOPHOMORES SHOULD KNOW: The Teen-Ager Lipstick Corp. has recently come out with a new Elvis Presley Lipstick. Endorsed by the gyrating idol, the shade is hound-dog orange . . . Keep your knitted ties rolled up in your drawer — hanging will stretch them . . . Here's some "off the collar" advice. You can remove powder and make-up from a shirt by rubbing the spot lightly with toilet water . . . As for lipstick, try sponging the spot with carbon tetrachloride.
I CAN SEE IT NOW: Situated on a lovely corner lot, the local psychiatrist's house, with a sign on the lawn reading: "Please, walk on the grass."
Soviet Education Lacking - Murphy
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's speech to the Association of American Colleges at Kansas City at the beginning of this year has been reprinted in booklet form.
The booklet is entitled "Some Comments On the Soviet Higher Education." The speech is based on Chancellor Murphy's trip in July of 1958 to the Soviet Union as a member of a group of seven United States university presidents.
In the booklet Chancellor Murphy writes that while the Soviet Union graduate of higher education is technically proficient, he is lacking in a broad, liberal education.
Wichita is the nation's third largest aircraft center in employment.
N.Y. Guest to Attend Architecture Dinner
Charles S. Haines II, Pleasantville, N. Y., will be an honor guest at the architecture department's honor banquet at 6:30 tonight in the Kansas Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Mr. Haines is representing the New York firm of Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith, and Haines which gave $2,500 for scholarships in architecture at KU next year.
About 25 architecture students will receive awards in the form of money, medals or books.
Fisherman Fined
HEY GANG! TGIF
JANESVILLE, Wis. — (UPI) — Fisherman Ted Hawke, trying to collect on an insurance policy by faking his own drowning, yesterday collected instead, charges of disorderly conduct and leaving fishing lines unattended.
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