—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24, 1965
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New Inbred Corn
Lines Resistant
To "Dwarfing”
Limited quantities of seed
of four inbred corn lines
two with lesislance to corn
stunt and two with resistance
to maize dwarf mosaic are
bem; made available to plant
breeders and seed producers,
the U S Department of Ag
uculluie icports
Development of lesistant
lines is a major step in a
loint Federal-State program
to control these two virus
caused diseases which iirst
appealed in 1962 corn
stunt in Mississippi and maize
dwarf mosaic in Ohio
One and possibly tooth of
th e stunting diseases have
spread and become more se
vere since they were first Ob
served Maize dwarf mosiac
has been reported in most
Midwestern and some South
ern States Corn stunt has
been positively identified in
only a few cases tout is sus-
pected to be responsible for
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the stunting observed in scat
tered areas throughout the
Southern. States.
Development of resistant
corn lines seems to offer the
best means of controlling
these diseases, and the four
new lines arc the result of ex
tensive screening studies and
breeding work by USDA’s
Agncultuial Research Service
and the Agricultural Experi
ment Stations in Ohio and
Mississippi
• County Agent
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who are in need of help. The
mission of our Pennsylania
Team was to Observe the needs
in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
Of the 14 days in Brazil we
spent 10 of them in Bahia
learning about these people
and their needs Seven of
these days were spent in the
capital 'city of Salvador meet
ing with local and govern
ment officials and wuth their
many organization leaders.
The remaining three days Were
spent traveling through the
interior of Bahia
The Alliance iComhiittee in
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It compares, scientifically, such d.iii
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Bahia were ready for ut and
presented us with 80 different
projects that needed the at
tention of Pennsylvanians and
financial help. We .spent much
of our time in Bahia observ
ing these projects. The great
majority of them required fi
nancial assistance fo' hospi
tals, 'orphanages, schools, and
community projects relating
to welfare and health. I re
gret that very few of them
contained much agricultural
attention
During our three days of
travel throughout the interior
of Bahia, we had an opportun
ity to see many acres of land,
r ome farms, and much pov
er'y Most of the land is not
tilled, is covered with native
grasses and brush and consid
einb’e tropical trees and
bushes The rural towns and'
ullages are veiy depressed
aid poveity stricken.
The people of Bahia are
friendly toward Americans
and feel that we can help
them, 'they have a large, un
der developed country with
many potentials. In my opin
ion there are many current
needs lor these folks; follow
ing are several of the most
important ones (1> More edu
cation at all levels; more
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end improved food handling is to see this part of South
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