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Sollenberger and Russell
re-elected at Lehigh Valley
LANSDALE Norman W.
Sollenberger, of Fayetteville, and
H. Carlyle Russell, of Rome, have
been re-elected to the board of
directors of Lehigh Valley Far
mers.
Lehigh, headquartered in
Lansdale, is one of the leading
dairy cooperatives in the state,
with over 1320 milk producers. The
Look (or signs of cattle scabies
WASHINGTON - The return of
cold weather means it’s prime
time for cattle producers to look
for signs of cattle scabies, said
Bert W. Hawkins, administrator of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
Hawkins said fewer scabies
cases are found during the spring
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Mr. Sollenberger, secretary of
Lehigh Valley Farmers, has been
on the board of Lehigh and
predecessor organizations for 11
years. Mr. Russell is entering a
second three-year term.
and summer months because
mites usually are less active
during warmer weather. .
However, he cautions this
decline is only temporary. “If
ranchers fail to look for and treat
scabies, the mites will become
active and spread due to cooler,
damper fall and winter tem
peratures provide a more
USDA insect researcher
named scientist of year ,
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
research agency has named USDA
chemist James H. Tumlinson 111,
“Scientist of the Year” for his
research on the chemistry and
biology of insect behavior.
Tumlinson and three regional
award winners were honored in
ceremonies Nov. 19 at the USDA
Administration Building in
Washington, D.C.
“Tumlinson won this honor for
his individual research and for
heading a USDA team in studies to
identify and synthesize the
pheromones of several major
insect pests,” said Terry B. Kin
ney, administrator of USDA’s
Agricultural Research Service.
Pheromones are hormone-like
chemicals that insects release to
communicate with and attract
others of their species. As a result
of Tumlinson’s work, these
chemicals are being used com
mercially to lure insects into traps
and to confuse the pests so they fail
to mate. The boll weevil, Japanese
bettle, peachtree borer and corn
rootworm are among the insects he
has studied.
“Tumlinson’s two decades of
pheromone research greatly ad
vanced the science of insect
control,” Kinney said. “His
hospitable environment,” he said.
So far this fiscal year, three
cases of scabies have been
reported in two states, said
Hawkins-one each in Armstrong
and Potter counties in Texas and a
single case in Cassia county,
Idaho.
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Behavior and Basic Biology
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“The agency established the
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sciences,” Kinney said.
The regional award winners are;
- S.M. (John) Mircetich, plant
pathologist, Crops Pathology and
At the close of fiscal 1984, there
were 75 cases of scabies nation
wide, compared with 107 at the
same time last year.
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understanding the cause of and
controlling several fruit and nut
crop diseases;
- K. Darwin Murrell, zoologist,
Animal Parasitology Institute,
Beltsville, Md., for national and
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- William L. Ogren, plant
physiologist, Photosynthesis
Research Unit, Urbana, 111., for
new findings on the role of carbon
in photosynthesis and for
leadership of coordinated research
on photosynthesis.
Tumlinson will receive $5,000, a
plaque and up to $40,000 in
equipment or other support for his
research. Each regional winner
will receive $2,500 plus $25,000 in
equipment or other support.
Tumlinson, who joined the
agency in 1964, has twice received
USDA’s Superior Service
Award-in May 1975 as a member
of the team that developed the boll
weevil pheromone and again last
year as research leader of the
insect chemistry research group.
A native of Westport, Miss.,
Tumlinson did his graduate work
at Mississippi State University and
his undergraduate work at
Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, Va.
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