16—Lancaster Farming.
Saturday. May 17.1969
Plant Food
President Speaks
"Incicased fertilization of U S
faimiand has piovcd a boon to
the nation and the woild, not a
bane as some would eh.nge '
This belief was emphasized be
foie the Senate Subcommittee
mi Intel governmental Relations
m\ estimating the need foi a
Select Committee on Teehnoloms
and the Envnonment bv Edwin
II Wheelei, Piesident. National
Plant Food Institute, the nation's
feitilizei industiy association
Without crop feitilization, he
asseited. Ameiican faimeis
would not be able to feed the
piesent II S population, let alone
evpoit the pioduct fiom one out
ot eveiy fom acies omseas
Wheelei labeled eaihei sub
committee testimon> as sensa
tional but lacking scientific fact
as to accusations that use of m
tiogen feitihzeis lesult in ex
cess algae giowth in lakes and
stiearns and in pollution of wa
tei souices
“Without feai of scientific con
tiadiction ’ he said, ‘there is no
piesent dangei to oin emnon
ment fiom piopei use of com
meicial feitilizei ’
Rather than pied.ct mans fu
tine doom fiom increased agnc
ultmal technolog\ as some wit
nesses ha\e done, Wheelei said
‘lts to know that
the knowledge now within om
giasp will allow us to inciease
man s well-being bj as much if
not moie than has been the case
ovei the past half cental y
cultuie will lequne more, not
less fertilize! use in the next 50
yeais,” he added
Answering the charge of an
eaihei witness that US crops
aie so dependent on chemical
nihogen feitilizers that they are
“hooked”, Wheeler said “Of
couise they’re hooked in the
sense that all gieen plants must
hc,ve nitrogen to live But as fai
as plants demanding only nitio
gen fiom a specific source, that’s
absuid.” he added “Plants take
up the mtiate molecule when it
becomes available no mattei
what the onginal souice—oigan |
ic 01 inoigamc ” 1
Wheelei said his oiganization
favoied establishment of a study
committee on technology and the
human environment, and added
“The success of such a com
mittee lies in development ot
sound scientific facts in liaison
with U S Department of Agi ic
ultuie, land-grant univeisities
and business scientific commun
ities ”
Farm Women
Society 14
The Society of Farm Women
No 14, met at the West Willow
Fue Hall Wednesday evening
foi a molhei & daughtei ban
quet 79 peisons weie piesent
The piog'am included a bi<»ss
ensemble and hand bell chon
Tom the Maitm-Mylm School
Six ladies won flowei plants
The next meeting will be held
June 11 at the same place foi a
buffet lunch seived at 12 30
County officeis and Society 17
Will be entei tamed Speakei foi
the piogram will be Mis C Pai
kei Wught on the subject “Pum
itive Indians of Mexico ” Any
one with Mexican souvenns aie
asked to bung them along
The first railroad tunnel m
U S was built in 1833, 4 miles
east of Johnstown, Penna.
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