B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 15, 1973
Federal Funds Reinstated
for Agricultural Research
“Agricultural Experiment
Stations of the land-grant
universities must make a greater
effort to inform the general
public or be judged by the
‘squeaking wheel’ in the
newspapers and other news
media,” declared Dr. Walter I.
Thomas of The Pennsylvania
State University during a
national conference of soil
scientists held recently in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Dr. Thomas observed that
critics with little knowledge of
agriculture can affect the support
of research unless all (he facts
are given to the public. He added
that people critical of
agricultural research are often
unacquainted with the scope,
objectives, and results of such
research. He spoke as associate
director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn
State.
Partly due to critical reports in
the news media, federal funds
were decreased in the Executive
budget for the first time in fiscal
year 1974. Thanks to the efforts of
people in agricultural business,
agricultural production, and
farmers, members of Congress
were persuaded to reinstate some
of the cuts. Although there was no
increase over last year’s budget,
essentially all the cuts in the
Hatch and Mclntire-Stennis Acts
were restored at last year’s level.
The revised budget will not
take into account the increased
cost of research which has gone
Graybill Joins
P.M.A. Board
Robert B. GraybiU of Lititz,
Pa.; William W. Knauer,
Reading, Pa.; and John H.
Seeton, Springfield (Del.
County), Pa., have been elected
to the Board of Governors of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’
Association.
GraybiU is president of Penn
field Corporation, Lancaster, and
treasurer of PennAg Industries
Association. He recently was
elected to serve on the Baord of
the Lancaster Area Manufac
turers’ Association for a three
year term beginning January I,
1974. He also serves as a director
for the National Broiler CouncU,
the American Feed Manufac
turers Association, the Lancaster
Chamber of Commerce and the
Lancaster Division, Com
monwealth National Bank.
Knauer is president of Helme
Products, Inc., Reading. A 1947
graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, he is a member of
the American and Pennsylvania
Institutes of Certified Public
Accounts. Knauer lives at 1525
Argonne Road, Reading.
Seeton is president of PMA He
had served previously as an ex
officio member of the PMA
Board. He is also a member of the
Board of Trustees of Penn
sylvania State University and has
served on the State Board of
Vocational Rehabilitation since
1963.
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Thomas commented. He in
dicated the experiment stations
will still be able to carry out most
of the programs which will help
maintain an abundance of high
quality food for the nation and
some others.
Until the 1974 fiscal year,
research funds for agriculture
had increased modestly over the
past 25 years when compared
with other research and
development funds, at least in the
federal budget. Federal support
of agricultural research comes
primarily from Hatch and
Mclntire-Stennis Acts.
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“We must increase our em
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