lISDA Establishes New Research Groups for Pioneer Science Work Progress in setting up special pioneering research groups, to ex plore the scientific unknown be yond the present limits of knowl edge, is reported by the U.S. De partment of-Agriculture. These new units for basic re search, organized • -ound out standing scientists, are being es tablished in various divisions of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Plans for them began to take shape as early as last April, following a realignment of func tions within the Service. A mem orandum explaining the purpose of the new pioneering research groups was sent to division direc tors by USD A Research Adminis tiator B. T. Shaw on May 17 this year. So far, two of these laboratora tones are m full operation. They are the Pioneering Laboratory for Mineral Nutrition, in the Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, and the Pioneering Lab oratory for Plant Physiology, in the Crops Research Division Both are located at USDA’s Agricultur al Research Center, Beltsville, Md. Charters have been approved for three additional laboratories, also located at Beltsville. They aie the Pioneering Laboratory for Blood Antigen Research, in the Animal Husbandry Research Di vision, and Pioneering Labora tories for Insect Pathology and Insect Physiol9gy, in the Ento mology Research Division Divi sion. Pioneering research groups in a number of other Agricultural Research Service divisions are be ing planned. Commendation of USDA for its encouragement of pioneering re tnxmttttuintttutttiituitsxitiiiixxtst. GREATER PRODUCTIVITY IS THE KEY TO PROGRESS Through Proven Sires The assured top production complimented with good type to assure longevity. Breeding service is as near as your tele phone and costs so little you’ll be amazed. All this is pos sible through “Farmer Cooperation”, the best “off-the-farm tool” to assist you gain higher profits. ALWAYS A CHOICE OF SIRES WITH S. P. A, B. C. Southeastern Renna. Artificial Breeding Cooperative P. 0. Box 254 Lancaster, Pa. Phone EXpress 2-2191 See Your Local Hoffman Agent or Phone Landisville TW 8-3421 A. H. HOFFMAN SEEDS, INC., Landisville, Pa. search within the Agricultural Re search Service was expressed last month in a resolution of the Agri cultural Research Institute, an organization affiliated with the Agricultural Board of the Nation al Academy of Sciences—National Research Council. The Institute’s resolution said, in part: “This action by the De partment of Agriculture is re garded as the single most signifi cant step in decades which will promote the welfare of the funda mental elements of agricultural science . . . This program ... is viewed as a step which will at tract the highest calibre of scien tist and particularly will stimulate interest among students in our colleges and universities anxious to pursue pure science as a car eer.” Commenting on the research units, Dr. Shaw said. “Scientific facts and principles are the start ing points for imaginative process es that lead to new things and new ways of doing things. The thinking, observation, experimen tation, and analysis necessary to establish new facts and principles are what we mean by ‘basic re search’. “Our advisors outside the De partment, as well as USDA re search people themselves, believe that we have not been doing en ough basic research. The tremen dous recent advances in farming and in agricultural industry are largely the result of basic scien tific discoveries made years ago I or some time now we have been scraping the bottom of the basic research barrel. To find answers to the problems of today’s and to morrow’s agriculture, we’ll have Production Credit Stockholders in Annual Meeting The annual stockholders meet ing of Lancaster Production Credit Association wil be held Friday December 13. At the an nual conclave, two directors will be chosen. The meeting is to be held at the Mount Joy Elementary Sc hool at 10.30 a. m Chief speak er will be Wm. H. “Bill” John son, extension representative of the Farm Credit Administration. Samuel G. Ober, Rheems; J. Homer Graybill, Manheim R 3; Richard P. Maule, Collins, and Ira D Welk, New Providence, are the nominees for the two directors posts After the meet ing, lunch will be served to the stockholders present. Two nominees will be picked for national directors Candidates are Samuel B Williams, Middle town RD, Julius S. Nilson, Shellsville; Richard B. Lefever, Holtwood R D, and W. Harold Graybeal, Pleasant Grove to push fundamental knowledge ahead faster. - “The pioneering research gi oups we are setting up will help to meet this need for more basic research research that is not concerned with solution of im mediate problems, but rather with broadening and deepening man’s understanding of the physi cal world and of life processes. We are confident that these groups will encourage the freer play of genius in agricultural re search The new facts they dis cover 'will make all our applied research more effective ” Pioneering research units, Dr. Shaw said, are to be established only in subject-matter fields for which research funds have been authorized, and in which it can be expected that new basic find ings will substantially advance agricultural science. Dr. Shaw emphasized that the new groups will do only a part of the basic research undertaken by the Agricultural Research Service. The regular research di visions will continue, as at pres ent, to plan and carry out funda mental investigations aimed at supplying new scientific facts and principals recognized as needed to solve particular agricultural research problems. In the memorandum on pio neering lesearch sent last May to the directors of Agricultural Research Service divisions, Dr. Shaw pointed out that “all re search in the Department is, and should be, directed toward help ing agriculture perform its role by solving current problems, anticipating and averting future problems, and creating new and better things for and from agri culture.” «♦ ♦♦ *♦ ♦♦ He emphasized, however, that the success of problem-solving research depends fundamentally on new scientific discoveries. He pointed to the need for “research that is not aimed at specific, prac tical problems or objectives, but rather at the advancement of science. Only in this way can the scientist have the free dom he needs to follow where the research trail leads and find the unlooked-for.” “Obviously,” Dr. Shaw added, ‘such ‘undirected’ research can be entrusted by those responsible for use of public funds only to scientists who are fully compet ent to accept this trust.” Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks and Dr. Harry A. Borthwick are two of the USD A scientists selected for pioneering research duties. Dr. Hendricks, chief chemist of the Pioneering Labortary for Mineral Nutrition, is widely known for his contributions to soil scienc and mineralogy, plant physiology, and chemistry. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is a 30-year vet eran of the Department. Dr. Hendricks and his asociates will work in the direction of develop ing a better understanding of piocesses related to the mineral nutrition of plants. At the outset this research Will involve studies of how plants accumulate inor ganic ions, and how these ions function inside plants. Lancaster Farming, Friday* Dec. 6, 1957—11 Polled Breeders To Build New Home in K. C. The American Polled Hereford Assn, was off to an auspicious start toward the construction of a permanent home in Kansas City, Mo. At their annual banquet held recently in Harrisburg. 30 cattle men subscribed a total of 530,750 toward erection of a building in Kansas City, Mo., for the asso ciation headquarters. Leon Falk, Jr., of Pittsburgh and Schellsburg, chairman of the Pennsylvania National Livestock Exposition, site of the 36th Na tional Polled Hereford Show and Sale, subscribed $2,000 m a “sale of bricks” m a building fund campaign. Colonel Jewett Fulkerson of Missouri auctioned the bricks at the banquet attended by approxi mately 300 cattlemen and their wives and guests from more than 20 states and Canada. Gov. George M. Leader was principal speaker. 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