USDA Vegetable Advisory Committee Cites Need for Fundamental Studies The ned for more research in the field of vegetable crops to help build the nation’s stoie of necessary fundamental knowledge Wetc cited by the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Vegetable Re scaich and Marketing Advisory Committee at its annual meeting in Washington, Feb. #6. The im portance of this fundamental re search for the country’s future welfare was emphasized by the committee Committee members urged a detailed program of specific fundamental studies of vegetable ciops to underline their assertion of the general need for greater research efforts in this field. For example, in farm research they called for strengthened investiga tions of vegetable breeding, nema todes, and pesticide residues. In vegetable breeding, the need for expanded genetic, cytogenetic, and applied breeding work to de velop disease and insect-resis tant varieties of sweet-potatoes, carrots, beans and peas, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, and muskmelons, the committee said. This work should also lead to \ aneties adaptable to mechanized production and handling and pos sessing better qualities for pro cessing and use. The aim of the nematode studies would be to understand nematodes as primary invaders in bastenal and fungus-disease com plexes, to develop efficient use of nematocides, and to develop nematode resistance in vegetable varieties. In regard to the pesticide-resi due investigations, the committee noted that lack of information about residues in or on vegetables is still a serious obstacle to the best use of pesticides in protect ing crops from insect attack. The committee gave top prior ity in the field of utilization re search to expanded fundamental chemical studies of vegetables. Information is needed, in the committee’s opinion, on the con stituents of first importance to processing quality, on the chemi cal changes involved in the loss oi quality and nutritive value dur ing and after processing, and on enzymes and enzyme systems that aftect processing quality. ,Top needs in home economics research, according to the com mittee, are for further work on USDA’s food composition tables, which list the nutritive compon ents ox foods, and for new re search to determine the content of selected vitamins in fresh vege tables as served and eaten in homes and in the school-lunch program Further studies of the posthar vest physiology of vegetables is the top need in vegetable-market ing research, the committee said Expanded work on russett spot of lettuce, storage specking of cab bage, and Chilling injury of sweet potatoes, honeydew melons, pep pers, cucumbers, and squash was Milk Production, Marketing Survey In West Begins A special milk production and marketing survey in three west ern Pennsylvania counties will get underway Feb 1, the Pennsyl vania Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. , Dairymen in Ciawford, West moreland and Armstrong Coun ties will be asked to supply ans wers each month to questions on individual dairy production and marketing practices ‘‘lt is our aim to compile suffi cient data to aid dairymen m these pilot study counties and c\ cntually all our Pennsylvania dairymen should benefit from these results,” secretary William L Henning declared. The program, under supervision of the Pennsylvania Crop Re potting Service, is expected to provide much needed information to dairy farmeis in a fast-chang ing industry. t Matching funds for the survey have been provided by the U S. Department of Agriculture. urged by committee members as part of these investigations. Also important in the area of marketing research, the commit tee said, is a new study of retail handling and merchandising of tomatoes to cut costs and furnish better market tomatoes Established under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946, the committee is composed of out standing authorities on vegetables Its detailed recommendations for vegetable research to be under taken by USDA will be submitted formally to the Department with in the next few weeks. Acting chairman Russell H. Winters, The Larsen Company, Green Bay, Wis., was elected chairman at the conclusion of the meeting. E. 0. Williams, county agricultural agent, Toledo, Ohio, was named vice chairman. 1958 FUtO-PEP CHICK STARTER £ &Jm . \ V ' t) X Ful-O-Pep's restricted feeding plan SAVES *4OO PER 1000 BIRDS You buy only 2 lbs. Chick Star ter-5 lbs. Growing Mash per bird on range on ths Ful-O-Pep Restricted Feeding Plan. You save up to 8 lbs. total feed per bud, over foiced-feedmg plans, or about 40$ per bird! Simplified plan makes feeding easy You feed only 5 lbs. of Ful-O-Pep Growing Mash per 100 birds—s days a week. Feed oats every day. It’s that simple! Ask your Ful-O-Pep Dealer how you, too, can grow big, prof itable pullets... and save about 400 per bird! THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY M . makers of dependable feeds for over 75 years S. H. Hiestand & Co. Salunga, Pa. I Millport Roller Mills Grubb Supply [ Lititz, R. D. 4, Pa. Elizabethtown, Pa. Atlantic Angus Bull Sale Feb. 24-25 Offering 400 Head to Beef Herdsmen STAUNTON, Va—Final plans for the Great Atlantic Angus Bull Sale, to be held at Rich mond’s Atlantic Rural Fair grounds, Feb 24-25, were for mulated at a meeting held le cently, according to an announce ment made here by Dave Can ning, secretaiy-treasurer of the Atlantic Angus Assn. In making his announcement, Canning stated that the proposed bull sale is “a solid, grassroots effort that we believe can be built into an annual program of great service to the Aberdeen- Angus breed, and to beef cattle producers everywhere.” The sale, first of its kind in this section, will offer what Can ning describes as “the very finest grows sound-bodied,sturdy CKS W For FUL-O-PEP SUPER FEEDS See Your Nearest Dealer TH A FUTURE H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. Witmer & Ronks, Pa. Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 21, 1958—■ selection of bills ever offered on the North American continent.” He stated fuUher that the bulls consigned include “those big, rugger, not highly fitted bulls ready for immediate service for the farmer or rancher, as well as many top herd prospects suit ed to the most discriminating breeder.” Bulls eligible for the forth coming sale are only those born between May 1, 1954 and March 1, 1957. Entry lists' have now closed; and Angus men all over America are said to be eagerly awaiting the big event, with many of them making plans to come to Richmond to see the judging and participate in the selling of more than 400 Aber- GROWS BIRDS FIT... NOT FAT Give your baby chicks the extra growth poxer they need to giow sound, sturdy bodies and strong, lug ged bones Stait ’em on new, nutritious Ful-O-Pep Chick Staiter. It glows chicks fit... not fat'. $B% OR MORE Of CHICKS LIVE New vitamm-i ich Ful-O-Pep is highly foitihed with vital health mgiedients to give your chicks moie vim and vigor .. added life pi otection, too Many poultiymen icport ovex 98 c /o livability', some 100G>- What better msuiance can you piovide :or your future layeis? BUILDS AMERICA'S BEST PULLETS For 15 ye.us in the National Egg Laying Tests-birds grown on Ful-O-Pep Feeds aveiaged laying mote eggs, and bigger eggs, than buds grown on other feeds . . . official pi oof that Ful-O-Pep gions Amer ica’s best laying pullets. PRODUCE 78 MORE TOTAL EGGS Research shows that pullets gxown on the famous Ful-O-Pep Restucted Feeding Plan laid 18 mote eggs than full-sisters giown on foiced-feedmg plans Their eggs were bigger, too avei aging almost 1 1 z ounces more, per dozen! 'SSgi ✓ ' '' D. W. Hoover East Earl, R. D. 1, Pa. deen Angus bulls. A distinguished committee, featuring names well known thioughout the Angus woild, it set to sift the cattle, and place them m classes lor the ultimate judging of the top group, and the selling of that group and the next two highest ratings, Serving on the sifting committee aie Dr. Paul Kessee manager ot Kermac Ranch. Poteau, Okla. Clayton Jennings- co owner of Hyland Angus Ranch, one of the really noted herds of the West, at High more, S D • John Mommsen, Clinton, lawa who has shown seven International Grand Cham pion Carloads of steers, and Dr. A V. Bartenslager, owner of Bellemonte Faim, Churchville, Va, and a leading livestock auth ority and tetennann. Headquarters for the sale will be in Richmonds historic Hotel Jefferson. FUi/O^Pi chick starter^ George Rwtt Stevens, R. D. I, Pa. J. C. Walker & Son Gap. Pa. >
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