12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 2, 1956'
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Latest on Turkey Feeding
Edged in the Checkerboard that identifies Ralston-
Purina, the' stage was set for latest news and tips on tur
key production when Ralston-Purina dealers convened re
cently at the American Legion Home in Palmyra, Pa. This
was one of three Keystone State meetings sponsored by the
St Louis firm to bring dealers and friends up-to-date on
the newest in production, management and marketing.
Hybrid Tomato Seed Production Cost
Cut Drastically by Self-Sterle Line
Progress Report No. 35 Penn
sylvania Agriculture Expeiiment
Station? The Pennsylvania State
University. Univeisity Park, Pa.
Drastic cuts in the costs of
producing hybrid tomato seed
aie indicated in the-develop
ment of a self-steule line with an
unusually long style on the blos
som Specimens of the plants
beaiing the extiuded style were
originally selected in genetic ma
teuals at the Pennsylvania agri
cultuial experiment station in
1951 by Dr B L Pollack
Since that time. Di Pollack
has ic-selected plants beaiing
this character so that the style
protrudes about a quarter-inch be
yond the blossom, wheieas the
original tomato plants had ex
trusion? of only a thirty-second
to a sixteenth of an inch
Greenhouse, Field Trials
In addition, Dr Pollack has
grown the special materials for
three years in both gieenhouse
and held trials to definitely fix
the character Eaiher work in
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sterile lines showed wide varia
tions in this chaiacter depending
on vanous environmental fac
tors
Transfeis of the long-style
sterile lines are now being made
to more desirable tomato lines
and thus pave the way for easier
breeding of tomato hybrids Be
cause of the extruded style, no
pollen is shed on the surface of
the stigma, and thus no §elfmg
takes place, making the new
type blossom ideal for first gen
eration hybrid seed production
with hand-pollination, Dr Pol
lack explained He reported his
findings at the last annual meet
ing of the American Society for
Hoi ticultural Sciences
Commercial Prospects
“This line eliminates the tedi
ous operation of emasculating the
blossom by hand” said Dr Pol
lack, as he envisioned applica
tion of such materials to com
mercial production of hybrid
tomato seed He has been using
some ot the materials as the
female line in his tomato breed
ing work at Penn State and has
produced seed at less than a
tenth of the labor costs required
with noimal parent lines
Progress Report No. 36
With a few changes in con
struction, ordinary 15-culbic foiit
food freezers have maintained
temperatures of 25 degrees be
low zero, Fahrenheit, with no
fluctuation of interior tempera
tures, Professor John E Nicholas
has found in experiments under
wa at the Pennsylvania agricul
tural experiment station
“Few people realize the wide
variations in temperature of
foods as the ordinary freezer
cycles on and off” says Profes
sor Nicholas as he explained that
all his previous studies point to
superior quality of foods main
lamed at temperatures below
zero degrees Fahrenheit.
. Test freezers, running in
ordinary room temperatures,
have the motor running con
tinuously, instead of the
usual cycling. However, in
stead of the one-third horse
power motor ordinarily ex
pected, Professor Nicholas
has installed a smaller mo
tor, of one-sixth horsepower.
Another innovation is removal
of the coils which in current
freezers are usually located under
the outer shell of the freezer.
Shifting these coils to a new lo
cation adds the equivalent of an
extra inch of insulation, Profes
sor Nicholas explains, since the
heat thrown off by the coils dur
ing operation must be overcome
to maintain low temperatures-
He also encourages the addition
of another inch of insulation, coni
tending that too many manufac
turers have sacrificed lower in
terior temperatures to space-sav
ing and attractive exteriors
GUERNSEY MEET MAY 7-10
May 7-10 has been set for the
79th_annual meeting of the Amer
ican Guernsey Cattle Club with
the Pennsylvania state association
as host. The meeting will be in
Philadelphia and vicinity, with a
purebred Guernsey sale and
business session slated for May
9.
“If frozen food of high quality
is to be expected, then a freezer
should be constructed to hold
and maintain constant tempera
tures low enough to preserve the
quality m that food” he said.
Thus far, operational costs, in
cluding the electrical energy,
have been less with continuous
running than with the normal
cycling methods, Professor Nicho
las reports
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