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.
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Offering 400 Head to Beef Herdsmen
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judging of the top group, and the
selling of that group and the
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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
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A V. Bartenslager, owner of
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