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
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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
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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,
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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.”
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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.
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Polled Breeders
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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
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Leon Falk, Jr., of Pittsburgh
and Schellsburg, chairman of the
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campaign.
Colonel Jewett Fulkerson of
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wives and guests from more than
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$5OO. Two bricks were purchased
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auction, by the Missouri Polled
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high increase m the Eastern
Lnited Slates. Chittenden ex
plained that 10,172 Polled Here
ford breeders are now registered
with the association.
Earlier, M. P. Moore, of Sena
tobia, Miss., was elected president
of the American Polled Hereford
Assn. He succeeds John Shiflet of
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