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—Uocasttr Farming, Saturday, Nov. 8,1971
Ag yearbook published
WASHINGTON - Con
tributions to consumers
nude by the Nation’s state
agricultural experiment
stations - ranging from the
discovery of vitamins to the
creation of hybrid com - are
featured in the 1975 Year
book of Agriculture, "That
We May Elat", published
recently.
This year the stations
celebrate their hundredth
anniversary.
The Yearbook is written in
a popular style. Consumers,
students, and the general
public will find this an easy
book to read. It will give
them an insight into the
fascinating search for ways
to help increase food and
fiber supplies and provide a
better life for consumers.
As a striking example of
the payoff from agricultural
research, Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L. Butz in
his foreword to the Yearbook
cites the development of a
vaccine to keep poultry
healthy and add to consumer
meat supplies. He notes that
the estimated worldwide
economic value of just this
one piece of research on
Newcastle Disease, at the
Virginia Agricultural Ex
periment Station, is $1
billion.
“You are directly helped
in many ways by
agricultural research,” the
Secretary writes. “The
experiment stations had a
hand in developing today’s
meaty, tasty, economical
chicken. Their research
made possible the fried
chicken that you eat at the
neighborhood fast-food
establishments.”
Experiment stations
“controlled hog cholera
which used to destroy
millions of pounds of pork
each year," Secretary Butz'
foreword continues. "They
curbed the wheat rust
epidemics that threatened to
wipe out wheat - and bread.
“They devised new ways
to irrigate dry parts of the
country so that we could
have larger, more
economical supplies of food
and fibers ...
"Agricultural scientists
even discovered dicumarol
to control blood clots in
humans, streptomycin to
treat TB and other diseases,
and they discovered the
significance of amino acids
in your diets.
“Scientists also played a
star role in stopping the corn
blight of 1970 - the most
destructive disease ever to
hit com. It killed off 15
percent of our huge com
crop that year ...
“The miracles are so
commonplace we can’t
report them all!”
A copy of “That We May
Eat”, the 1975 Yearbook of
Agriculture, may be obtainec
for $7.30 at government
bookstores or by mailing a
check or money order
payable to the Superin
tendent of Documents and
addressed to Superintendent
of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington,
D.C. 20402. In addition, each
member of Congress has a
limited number of copies for
free distribution to con
stituents.
The Agriculture Depart
ment produced the book but
has no copies for public
distribution or sale.
Connecticut founded the
Nation’s first state
agricultural experiment
station at New Haven in 1875,
and was followed soon after
Area soybean crop evaluated
By Dieter KHcg
Wet weather in late Oc
tober caused a delay in this
year’s soybean and com
harvests, but the recent
warm, sunny days have
turned the situation around
completely. The combines
and pickers are frantically
at work - gathering a crop
which is considered to be
“very good."
John Smith, extension
by California. Today every
State has a station, and some
States have two stations.
Since 1888 Congress has
appropriated money for
agricultural research, with
States matching the money.
Chapter authors in the new
Yearbook are from ex
periment stations for the
most part, and so are
members of the committee
that planned the 400-page
hardbound book. The book
covers ongoing research as
well as past successes. It
includes a 32-page photo
section in full color.
Elsewhere in the book are
220 black and white photos.
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that about 70 per cent of the
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