Blight Spreads, Infection Is Light
Southern Corn Leaf Blight
(SCLB) has now been reported
in approximately 581 counties
in 28 States, the National Feder
al-State Information Center for
Corn Blight reported last week.
This is an increase of about 159
counties and 2 States from the
422 counties and 26 States re
ported a week ago. New States
reporting are New York and
New Jersey.
However, the Information
Center emphasized that coun
ties are reported when the dis
ease has been identified even
though it may involve only one
plant in one field and that
because of the inability to ob
serve all corn fields, SCLB in-
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fection may currently exist in
counties not yet officially re
ported.
Plant pathologists generally
indicate that the overall infec
tion level is light in most coun
ties where the disease has been
identified. However, some
pathologists also report some
what heavier levels of infection
are now occurring, including
some field-to-field spread of the
disease.
This situation is largely limit
ed to localized areas where
heavy concentrations of SCLB
susceptible T cytoplasm seed
were planted, and where volun
teer corn or diseased debris
from the 1970 crop remained in
fields, or where farmers car
ried on crib shelling or corn
loading operations.
States reporting locally se
vere occurrences of the disease
include Kansas, Illinois, India
na, and Ohio.
The Blight Information Cen
ter reported that although the
most frequent reports of Race
T SCLB infection are from the
Corn Belt States, some increase
in the disease has been noted in
the Southern corn producing
States of Georgia, North Caro
lina, and South Carolina. Over
all infection levels throughout
the Southern States are substan
tially below those occurring
diming the 1970 crop season.
Wiles Gets Research Post
Jack A. Wiles, 180 Holland
Road, New Holland, has been
named New Product Research
Administrator at Victor F.
Weaver, Inc.
Wiles, a native of Terra Al
ta, W. Va., joined Weaver in
1970 as an Entree Develop
ment Supervisor, the position
he has held until his promotion.
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WASHINGTON REPORT
Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman
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If you were asked to paint a
picture of poverty, how would
it look? I suspect that you might
paint a picture of a ghetto—a
bleak, rat-infested tenement in
the midst of a city containing
thousands of unsmiling, depress
ed people.
You would probably choose to
use the ghetto as your concept
of poverty because that is the
picture that has been promoted
by the news media and by many
politicians. We tend to think
of poor people as a big city pro
blem. And, therefore, we tend
to develop poverty and welfare
programs costings billions of dol
lars around the idea of dealing
with the urban poor.
But a picture of a ghetto would
not reflect the national poverty
problem. Using the figure most
often to convince us that Amer
ica has a poverty problem—2s
million people with incomes be
low the poverty level—my re
search shows that far less than
half the poor in the United States
reside in the cities. In fact, only
thirty-two percent of the Na
tion’s poor 'live in our urban
centers
That means that sixty-eight
percent of all persons considered
poverty-stricken are to be found
in rural suburban areas. Seci
fically, fifty percent of all poor
live in rural environments and
eighteen percent dwell in the
suburbs.
Rural poverty is a greater pro
blem than urban poverty propor
tionally speaking too. Even if
the suburban poor are lumped
in with the city poor, rural po
verty is the greater blight.
Phone
Buck, Pa.
284-4464
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 17,1971 —
These statistics are important
because they show the extent to
which the real nature of the po
verty problem in the United
States has been ignored. Al
though most of the poor are
country poor, the concentration
of attention has 'been on city
poor. Because most of the poor
have found ways to provide a
subsistence for themselves, we
forget them and design programs
around the minority of poor that
live in the cities and in many
cases do nothing for themselves.
The only time the country poor
are included is in the statistics
to justify the spending of more
billions of dollars. The majority
of poor people in America get
listed but not listened to.
My point is that its high time
that we begin to face problems
as problems really are. The po
verty problem would be a good
place to start since much could
be and should be done to help
people to help themselves. But
in putting forth that effort let’s
start with the fact that most
people in this country already
are doing a great deal to help
themselves. They are poor in
possessions but rich in spirit. It
is .the minority of poor, mostly
in the cities, who are poor in both
possessions and spirit. And no
amount of welfare or poverty
programs can conquer the po
verty of spirit. That a man
must do on his own. Our efforts
should encourage him to do so
and further encourage the rural
poor who are already doing so.
Local Sheep Producers
Show in 23rd Keystone
Several local sheep producers
were among participants from
14 states and Canada in the
Twenty-Third annual Keystone
Ram and Ewe Sale last Satur
day, July 10, at the Farm Show
Building, Harrisburg.
Milton K. Morgan, 1916 New
Holland Pike, Lancaster, was
show manager. He reported that
a total of 203 sheep sold aver
aged $lO2. This included 38
wethers which averaged $3O.
A Dorset ram of Robert Herr,
Narvon RD, was first place ram
lamb and reserve grand cham
pion. The animal sold for $530,
second highest price for a Dor
set in the country this year.
One of Herr’s ewes placed third
in a class of 22.
Forget Jogging?
Forget jogging.
All that panting and puffing
is for nothing, according to
news reports of a study at
Stritch School of Medicine,
Loyola University, Hines, Illi
nois.
Drs. Alexander P. Eemem
chik and Gissur Brynjolfsson
have been unable in animal ex
periments to find any evidence
that exercise is beneficial to
normal rats or those with high
blood pressure. In fact, the rats
with highest blood pressure
rate showed the highest morta
lity rate after a program of run
ning on a rotating drum.
The physicians said they were
surprised at the result, since
exercise has been touted as an
answer to cardiovascular
disease.
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