POTATO PACKAGES of film made of United States Department of Agriculture
polyethylene offer greater moisture-weight In 1956, a weight savings of some 425
retention than paper bag counterparts, ac- million pounds was possible had the poly
cordmg to recent tests evaluated by the ethylene film packages been used
Conservation Slide Rule Helps
Reduce Soil Loss from Erosion
Research data on soil conser
vation, gathered by U S Depai t
ment of Agriculture scientists
over the past 30 years, is now
readily available for practical
use by technicians in the form
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ot a simple “conservation slide
rule” which makes possible fast
and reliable soil-loss estimates
right in the field
j This ijlide mle, developed fiom
Operates at 1 Costs less'
lower cost to install
Pit. Intercourse SO 8-8531
mfoi matron compiled bj scien
lists ol USD A Agucultuial Re
search Service, is in use by soil-j
consexvation technicians in the
nine Corn Belt States to help
farmers protect their land It was
designed by Dr J J. Peters of
the Soil Conservation Saivice, us
ing information prviously avail
able to soil conservation techni
cians only in tabular and chart
form
ALTHOUGH THE PRESENT
slide rule is adapted only to
Kentucky, Minnesota, lowa. Mis
souri, Wisconsin Illinois, Indi
ana, Ohio and Michigan, icseaich
information is being dev eloped
to make similar prediction meth
ods available to soil conseivation
technicians in other paits of the
United States
Since 1929, soil and water con
seivalion stations throuhotit the
countiv have been studying the
most important factois govern
mg the amount of soil and water
lost from fai inland during rain
storms All these factors except
lainfall itself are influenced to
some extent bv the method ol
cropping and conservation pi no
tices used
The rate of eiosion caused by
storms depends on the foice with
which raindrops stir up soil and
the amount and speed of the
runofi water Eiosion is also at
iected bj the kind of soil, kind
and amount oi soil covei, and
steepness and length of slope as
well as soil-management and con
servation piactices
WHEN ENOUGH cxpcnmcfttal
data arc available to give accur
late relative Values for these vai
ious factors mathematical meth
ods can be used to estimate or
predict soil loss on a paiticular
fann Such data are now avail
able for some areas of the coun
try'in the humid region Soil-loss
prediction methods based on
these data have been developed
and used in both the Coin Belt
and the Northeast
The conseivation slide mle de
veloped for the Corn Belt States
has been checked by manj scien
tists and field workers and found
to be a valuable and eilective
tool foi field woik
In the hands of a trained
technician familial with the
soils and climate of the area in
which he is working and with the
erosion allowance for each soil
the slide iulo makes possible
a rapid calculation of soil loss
With this tool the field workei
can leadilj select the combina
tion of mopping svstem and con
servation practices that will most
economically meet the needs of
a paiticular farm.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 4,1958 —1 S
Polyethylene-Packaged Potatoes
Offer Savings, Incr
Poly ethylene packaged potatoes
otlei greatei economy thiough
moisture-weight letcntion than
paper packed countoi parts, ac
coiding to recent tests evaluated
b\ the Umted States Dopaitmenl
of Agnculture
In teims of the amount of po
tatoes sold each year the new
packaging film makes huge sav
ings possible In 1956 for exam
ple Americans puichased almost
17 billion pounds of potatoes at
an a\erage ictail puce of 5 7
cents per pound A saving of
0 4 ounces per pound, or some
425 million pounds m all could
have been possible had poly
ethylene him packages been util
ized m packaging the national
potato aop
INITIATED BY Bakelite Co
Division of Union Caibidc Coip
in co-oueialion with Kcm Coun
tv t Calif ) Potato Gioweis Assn
extensive field and laboiaton
tests icvealed that while pota
toes packaged in poljcthvlene
film c«n be thioughout
the countt v with loss v eight
lo«s th in those packed in papei
has’
Using polvethvlcno gioweis
can ship moie packaged units
with each harvest, not needing
to adjust for the excessive loss
of weight
PI- \STIC PACKAGED potatoes
LLS. Livestock
Lxports Decline
Duimg the fust quaitei of 1958
L S exports ol all types of live
<-(ock dropped sharply, according
to the Foiefgn Agucultuial Sen
ice
Ihe current icpoit on the sub
ject says reduced meat production
in "this country pushed livestock
prices up, thus making U S ani
mals less attiactive to foreign
buy ers
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eased Sales
and those in paper mesh win
dow bags were shipped sidebj
side fiom California to New
York Ailei eight 01 nine days
in transit, polyethylene pack
aged-potatoes lost four ounces
less weight per ten-pound bag
than those shipped m paper
bags
Other test findings show that
after two weeks oir storage at
70 dog , F, potatoes packed in
seamless, perfoiated film bags
made ol polyethylene were ol
good quality and firm textuic
Papoit packed potatoes howevei
weie shrivelled spongy and dis
colored Moreover weight loss
was approximately twice that
oi potatoes packaged in poly
ethylene film
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