D6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 14,1980 Some government wat chers, particularly the journalistic type, take great pleasure in digging out the seemingly meaningless research projects un dertaken by die government. The Department of Agriculture is quite often the victim' of some probing journalist who has spotted a bit of irrelevant research that’s costing the poor taxpayer a few thousand dollars. We all read these little gems with great outrage and contempt for the stupidity of those bureaucrats who allow such foolishness to go on. No doubt some research is done in the Department of Agriculture and in other places that is a complete waste of tax dollars. But maybe some of it is basic research that involves acquiring basic knowledge before any practical ap plication can be developed, and therefore it’s necessary even though not understood. Perhaps there’s a parallel between some of the highly technical research that goes on and the games that grown men play. When you think about golf or bowling, or even football, it’s totally ridiculous what grown men will do. A probing journalist can do the same thing with research titles and carefully selected words that make a project appear ridiculous. This whole line of reasoning went through my 299-3794 Gets you ‘Pit Stop’ service Whether you're having tire trouble in the field, or you just need a little advice, your local "Pit Stop" service man is as near as your phone One call to this number brings him right to your farm And with him come the tools and the training to get the job done fast What’s more he offers you the most complete line of Goodyear farm tires around, plus a wide range of imjx>rtant services to keep you rolling Whatever your particular tire needs may be you can rely on your ‘Pit Stop' man to be at your service whenever and wherever you need him JUST GIVE US OR YOUR LOCAL GOODYEAR DEALER A CALL! Complete Headquarters For Farm, Truck, and Auto Tires febzeiters Farm Tire Center | Farm Talk Jerry Webb mind the other day as I was reading a Department of Agriculture report about research on alcohol in jection. It’s a project aimed at finding a way to burn alcohol in an internal combustion engine. Rather than mixing it with gasoline to produce gasohol, this technique uses an injector to spray wet alcohol, or aquafaol, into the fuel chamber. In today’s fuel minded economy, you would have to call this kind of research very relevant and if it has any hope at all, very im portant. After all, we can grow a variety of agricultural crops that can be converted into alcohol. And if we can figure out how to make that alcohol fuel an internal combustion engme in a cost effective and ecologically safe way, then we have freed some 200 million people from Arabian bondage. So nobody’s laughing at this bit of research and no probing journalist is talking about how much money has been wasted on the project. But wait a minute - that’s not the whole story We’re talking about a research team that reported its fin ding in 1948. That’s when William B. Roth and James C. Porter, scientists in USDA’s Peoria Reseach Laboratory, ap plied for a patent on tneir alcohol-water injector. 1062 MANHEIM PIKE, LANCASTER, PA Can’t your just imagine Uie lulctl idcK ui Illicit, it !P that little project during those post-World War II boom years when gasoline was selling for a tew i ents a gallon and we were producing all we needed right here in this country 7 But what may have seemed a waste of tax dollars in those days turned out to be about 30 years ahead of its time. It was-so far ahead, in fact, that the patent granted by the U.S. Patent Office has expired. The researchers, having finished their work, went on to other things, and must have wondered over the years just where they went wrong. Today, however, their research is right back in the mainstream of con temporary thinking. What they did more than three decades ago provides some of the knowledge needed to burn alcohol m an internal combustion engined Roth, who still works at the Peona lab as a chemist, now points out that the main advantage of a water-alcohol injection system over gasohol is the use of a lower cost, less gasoline con suming system. The even tual goal could be to replace all gasoline in the com bustion system and run on an alcohol-water mix as the primary fuel, with gasoline used only to start the engine. Research is going on all over the country mto all kinds of alcohol fuel mixes and technologies. Com panies are springing up to produce gasohol. Fanners are making it right on the farm. And the prospects for some kinds of alcohol fuel injection coupled with the use of gasoline looks promising. But what could turn out to be an important breakthrough must have just looked silly in 1948. It’s somewhat satisfying to know that both Roth and Porter, who is now semi retired and living m New Mexico, are still around to 1 - ‘ GOOD/yEAR Joint problems in baby pigs not necessarily nutrition CHICAGO, 111. - Look for non-mfectious or infectious agents as the source of leg problems m baby pigs, advised Dr. James D Hedges, manager of swine research for Wayne Feed Division of Allied Mills. Many tunes, he points out, the problem is related to these agents, not to nutrition. The non-mfectious problems can be due to poor floor surface, poor con firmation or inadequate bone structure related to genetics. Injections of hncomycm can help reduce the in cidence of these joint problems, Hedges says. Lmcomycm is also the drug of choice when joint problems develop in older hogs. 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