16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 25. 1967
Larson Terms Research Vital To
Solution Of World Hunger Problem
Venn St.itc University's Dean
of Agnculuiic declared recent
1\ that seciety is gearing up
fc an ol 1 out battle against
hunger—botn in this eountiy
and aino. d
Tlil- b ■; question is wheth
ei 01 not we started in time
to win the lace." said Dean
Ri.shell E Lai son
Speaking at Penn State's an
nual Ln*i“ and Feitilizer Con
fe'once L.ison said the Unit
ed States needs to be doing
now the lesearch that will en
able Ine nation to maintain
and me lease agucultuial pio
duetion not only in the next
10 jeais but up to the jear
2000
He pointed out that much
of the nation’s present ca
pacitj to produce food de
veloped through basic re
search carried out 25 or
more years ago. Research
leading to production of hy
brid corn, he claimed, was
done before 1920 but nearly
30 years elapsed from dis-
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covery to widespread use of
corn hybrids.
Dean Larson observed that
"the world food crisis is more
complex than the project to
place a man on the moon.”
He listed three problems
which he claimed must be
solved before world food needs
can be solved. (1) huge mass
es of impoverished people
must imp-ove farming meth
ods and many must learn to
read and write. (2) new agri
cultural t°chnologies must be
developed and used worldwide,
and (3) all nations must de
velop reliable political and
We asked the David Brians:
Is total electric
as low-cost as
Their answer:
We paid just $24.29 a month
last year for everything,
including electric heating!
Yes!
This low cost also included electric water
heating, cooking, laundering, lighting, and
all their other electric services.
That's why we say, to make a true
comparison of the total costs of home
heat and operating all your work-saving
appliances, you must add together all
costs.
With lotal electric Ihing, for instance,
there’s just one service, one bill and no
expensive maintenance contracts. But to
get the true cost of flame-type heat, you
must add together the fuel bill, the elec-
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economic systems. Apm Hnluteill.
He said the cost of basic re
search Is ic turned many times flnU Me rial Sll*e
over in profits to farmers and VWIU
industries using farm prod- vista Qiande Haven Wallie
nets. The return on research (EX)i owncd bv carl L. Mar
investments on hybrid corn. tin E phrata, and Mpheus L.
from 1923 to 1955 alone, was Ruth. Fleetwood, has been des
almost 700 percent per year,
he reported
Northeastern Breeders
Hold Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Elected lo Ihree year terms
Morgantown local unit of the on the Morgantown local ad-
Northeastern Breeders Associa- visory boaid were: Earl Mar
tion (NEBA) was held at the tin, Ephrata, and Allen Lee
Blue Ball Fire Hall recently. Stoltzfus, Honey Brook.
Reports were given by NEBA The following weie elected
district manager Larry Swen- as area breed representatives:
son and NEBA operations man- Holstein Eli Kauffman, El
ager, William Schaefer. High- verson: Jersey—Simeon Stoltz
light of the meeting was a fus, Leola; Ayrshire—Charles
presentation by Penn State ex- Gabel, Eiverson.
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The total-electric home of Mr. and Mrs. David Brian, East Petersbur
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tension dairyman Harvey
Sbaeffer, entitled "Knowing &
Understanding Bull Proofs”.
DIRECTORS NAMED
living
we promised?
trie bill and the service contract. Put
them all together and you’ll see why we
say live the total electric way as the
Biians do.
IF /GU ARE BUILDING be sure to
tell yenr builder you want to be modern,
you v ant the best, you want electric heat.
IF YOU ARE REMODELING-call a
Rc:lcy kilowatt Recommended Electric
Lome Uniting Dealer for an estimate.
Fe is listed in the Yellow Pages under
‘■Re.itmg Contractors."
ignated a Gold Medal Sir&~<
the highest recognition a Hole
stein herd bull can receive-*
by the HolsteimFriesian Asso
elation of America.
Admittance to the super-se
lect Gold Medal Sire Circle is
limited to those Holstein bulls
with daughters meeting ex
ceptionally high standards of
both milk production and body
conformation.
“Wallie” joined the Gold
Medal ranks as a result of his
recent designation as a Silver
Medal Production Sire. 14 of
his daughters have official rec
ords averaging 15,106 lbs. of
milk and 609 lbs. of butterfat.
He gamed the paralleling
Silver Medal Type award,
based on the uniformly out
standing conformation of his
officially classified daughters
in 1966
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