Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 11

* capabie of WALLACE DEFENDS PENOING FARM BIL secretary, in Forum Address, Sees Measure Designed for Common Good. _ _(Continusd From Tenth Page.) of research achisvements reported by ane bureau of the Department of Agri- culture for the past year. Before me is & summarized report for the Bureau of Plant Industry. and among their ac- complishments T find these items Established the superiority of five new hvbrid lines of corn in lowa tests: re- leased, for the use of growers. two new lines of hybrid sweet corn that will be resistant to bacterial wilt; rcleaséd, for ' the use of growers. & new wilt-resistant variety of tomalo, known asi the Pritchard: introduced & new blackberry variety, the Bralnerd. especially adapted for the West and South, and also in- troduced three improved varieties of strawberry: developed new root stock for Satsuma oranges and found Dew disease-Tesistant st for Califomiu grape vineyards: iniroduced & Dew sugar beet. U. S. No. 1. that is re- sistant to the costly. curly-top disease and that also greatly outyields older varieties some promising new sugar crosses of Amer- Suineg varieties progress in will be immune to bacterial loped a new variety of Fgyptian cotton in Arizona Handling of Foods. As another part of its job, this bu- reau investigates the storing. handling and proce of foods. For the year under report the bureau scientists di covered among other things, that put- ting apples in cold storage immediately after picking almost completely pr vents soft scald; that adding sulphur dioxide to the sawdust packing of grapes retards the development of mold, apd that treating fruits with carbon dioxide before shipment. is as eflective as pre-cooling in preventing spoilage. That s a partial report of the re- search accomplishments of one bureau It gives point to the statement that research can stabiliz2 crop production and eliminate or reduce those hazards— of disease, of climate, even of soil which make agricultural production un- cesain. For it Temains true that though drouth or disease or insect pests may raise the price of a crop by re- ducing the supply, such higher pric are cold comfort to the particular farmer who: s been ds stroyed by or_whose wheat has been hit Il 1 think, a proper insects and dis Whether e them to determir and the level of our incomes. N s 1 forget that every vear, according to Dr. L. O. Howard. the damage wrought by insects nullifies the laber of a mil- lion men If time and your patience permitted it would be le to cite instances to show how recearch has aflected 2ll of our major crops and classes of live stock. Low the patie the skill, and th ‘med imagination of scien- tists employed by the Department of ure have altered the agricultural this country and modified the farm prectices of every farmer in the Many farmers are not aware of Tesults of research reach 1 farm by an intricate, devi- they get there just the cane ring Surpluses, vill azree with me on that. I ) re at the same moment questioning whether t escarch has vroved to be an unmixed biessing. For science and invention, you will say have not only made it possible for us to produce enoigh to go around; they have made it possible forus to pile up tower~ ing surpluses. which in turn seem 1ging our whole economic svstem crashing down around our ears. We cannot_deny that. When scien- tists in the Department of Agriculture develop a variety of wheat that pro- duces five busheis more per acre than the variety commonly grown. one re- sult may be, and often is, too much wheat. When our modern knowledge of nutrition enables one bushel of coru to go as far as two bushels did" in the ploneer days in feeding live stock. one result mav be too much pork and lard artment of Agri- CoLo and WORLD ! with the culture and the colleges have been aware of the problem. They have tried to meet it by helping the individual farmer adjust his own production to changing market needs. They have hoped that advice and complete information on supply and demand would suffice. Where they have been remiss, in my judgment, is in declining to face the fact that the individual farmer cannot adjust his production intelligently un- less he knows, with some degree of cer- tainty, that his neighbors will do like- | wise. And it is to face that fact realis- tically that the new farm bill has been drafted. The essence of it is collective action, by all the producers, to accom- modate their proguction to the market that actually exists. Our expendityres for science, our ef- forts st increasing productive efficiency, have in no sense been unwise. Cer- tainly ne thoughtful person ecould ap- prove the abandonment of scientifie re- search, or the relegation of our ma- cnines’ to the ash-heap. To do that would be like abandoning the use of automobiles because we haye automobile accidents. As a rule, the fault is not. automobile, but with the driver _Controlled Efficiency Sought. 1t is not the fault of science that we have unused piles of wheat on Ne- braska farms, and tragic breadlines in New York City at one and the same moment. Rather it is because we have refused to apply sclence to the de- velopment of social machinery, ma- chinery that will regulate our economic systen duce. can be equitably divided. T am not one to ask for less efi- ciency. 1 want more, and I know that we can get far more. But I want the efficiency to be controlied in such u| wuy that it does more good than harm. I want to sec the farmers of the South grow 300 pounds of cotton per acre instead of 150 pounds. and the farmers the, North 50 bushels of corn per core instead of 35 bushels. 1 want to see the average milk cow yield 400 pounds of butier fat per vear instead of 200 hogs eventually should not produce 100 pounds of pork on the average from 6 bushels of corn, instead of from 9 bushels These things can all be done. rese h now going on will vorsible and will pave the way for countless new agricultural achievements as well Only the other day I learned that Te- search mow in progress indicates that crops grown in some regions of the Nation have a higher nutritional value | than do apparently similar crops grown in other areas. If further study bears this out, the consequences will certainly be far-reaching. We may have a new agricuitural map a decade from now. The research job, far done, is only well begun. We shall need’ mew varieties of cereals and s to resist diseases better than we now have. We shall have to p cutting costs of production by in- creasing vields per acre cultivation, like methods of feeding and managing live stock, must be subject to continuing investigation if we are to D abreast of the continually chang- ing economic world about us, chemists, not long ago, economical method by ne waste could v cellulose, suitable for r: to the end thal what we pro-| And 1 see no reason why our The | make it | from being | n, we patted ourselves | that it c abundanc startling Already new Lignin may yet potentialities, posing of farm wastes, chemical discoveries No, the job ot Methods of | on the back for an achievement of con- | derable importance. But over in the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils is a small bottle ot a brownish cellulose Members Rug Cleaners’ InsCtute of America TRY THE PYLE RUG CLEANING PROCESS We Clean—Repair and Store Rugs CALL MR. 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And surprising, indeed, the cost is exceptionally low. The suite as shown is constructed of maple veneer, in modern design and beautifully highlighted. BTSSR S TR TRATeRE STRBRCATR, B fi\ T \ = This he did, but not without censiderable damage to the plane and & severc shaking up for himself and his passenger. Though, fortunatcly, neither of them was injured, their condition seemed a hope- less one. Roger doubted if he could repair his plane and continue the journey east. And he knew they could not cross the desert on foot, facing thirst and hunger. The plane had attained frightful momentum in fall- ing. The ground seemed too close for him to flatten out in time to make a safe landing. Directly beneath them was a narrow gorge whose bottom looked fairly level and sand covered. In the brief instant he had to make a decision, it seemed safest to atlempt & landing in this gorge. But that instant almost | science and - social justice, and I be- | abundance lieve 1t can be made to work, if the quires stronger rank and file of the people of the hearts United States—the men who grow our | abundance than food, the men who handle and dis- | penury. Certain tribute it, the men and women who gree of tolera consume it—the new machine will work | économic groups if all these people are genuinely hungry to distribute the fruiis of science in 8 just way For that is our great modern problem Having conquered the fear of famine, | with the aid of sclence, having been brought into an age of abundance, we agriculture is not over, nor will it ever But today we have a new job, field experimenting: —that of social contr Research 10 increase productive efficiency, to widen markets, must continue. Eliminate the less im portant research activities, in deference products. ' to the need for economy; get rid of the gnin dead wood in our scientific organiza- tions—but keep the men of science at the tasks which will always need doing. And add to the old job the one that has been begun so well. this new job of developing the machinery of social control which was de- Can we, do you suppuse, become efficient In our social experimenting we have already proven ourselves sclentific experimenting? If this can be done, we can go ahead into one triumph after another in the scientific world It it is not done, I fear for the future of our civilization. The farm bill is an effort in the direction of such social Inventiveness In some ways it is. perhaps, as crude as the first automobile. 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