—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24,1971 22 Stop Pollution, But Also Beware of Until world population Dr Herbert Cole Jr, a mem- losses mowtb is checked, control of ber of the College of Agncul- In any discussion on the pol nests remains vital m ture Pesticides Reseaich La- lution potential of pesticides, maintaining food production in boiatory faculty, said, “Pollu- the biggest mistake made is one ™ te of the continuance of pol- tion, both from industrial of generalization, Dr Cole em lunon problems, a professor of wastes and pesticides, are part phasized .The person critical of plant pathology at Pennsylvania and parcel of human population pesticides lumps all forms to- Staie University declaied heie problems In the ciowded mid- gether and the defender also dmin« the lecent Lime and 20th century, we can neither places them in one group. Mizer Conscience tolerate pollution nor crop “To defend or condemn all Lancaster Co. Poultry Assn. Meets At the recent meeting of the Lancaster County Poultry As sociation, Irvin Musser reported banquet plans for late October, possibly at Plain and Fancy Loyalty Day Parade A queen Members were urged to watch „ , , , (county or state) will be pio- C£r efuUy the progress of this Stanley Musselman report a v)decl for the p ar ade program with the possibihty of good attendance at all tniee edu- , antmn needed to insure contmua cational meetings All felt they Jay Irwin explained the pro- action needed to m t were very successful Another posed revenus sharing piogram “ couniy p one is scheduled for June 10. President Nixon proposed. The => rdms „ money now going to Extension Aaron Click reported 173 mem- an( j 4 jj wou i,j jje given to state hers at present. 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Famine, Speaker Urges materials used for insect, plant disease, and weed control ac complishes nothing,” he said “Environmental pollution prob lems with pesticides range from rather high concern with cer tain stable insecticides such as DDT and its relatives to almost no concern with certain fungi cides ” Advocates of the “balance of nature” theory in solving our pest problems must keep in mind that famines and mass starvation have often followed while civilization waited for the balance of return, the Penn State professor added Nature, indeed, does have a balancing effect, but help is often needed in keeping it. “Man’s use of pesticides cer tainly has created pollution problems, but when speaking in terms of quality and quantity of crop production, the overall effect has been more and better >' - J v , x food than ever before,” Dr. Cole pointed out. He noted that the alfalfa wee vil is an example of an insect pest that initially caused devas tating economic effects in Penn sylvania and required intensive regular insecticide applications in order to maintain alfalfa pro duction With time parasites and predators have built up and the weevil has become much less important economically. In tegration of these natuial bal ances with occasional insecti cide treatments is effective in eliminating economic loss in many fields. “Perhaps in the absence of sprays to control the alfalfa weevil, the ‘balance of nature’ would have suppressed the wee vil after several intervening sea sons, but complete alfalfa crop losses would have severely re duced cattle and milk produc tion before the balance was achieved,” Dr. Cole said
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