Cornell University Agriculture and Life Sciences news New York State College of Agriculture and L.fe Sconces. Cornell University. Ithaca. N.Y. November 1983
Barbara McClintock Sharp Named Director of Wins Nobel Prize Biological Sciences Kiitwia A M<< Imuo (11. Ph |> 27| has w
computer technology I hey should I ighty-onc percent of our entering Ithaca and Geneva) I think the faculty understand the various uses ot compu freshmen were in the top 10 percent ol in the college has adjusted well to these ters in decision making and be familiar their high school class I his is nine cutbacks in tact, our total number of enough with this form ol technology percentage points higher than the employees has remained constant as the that thev will be able to participate in a previous year and is certainly the highest faculty has been successful in attracting productive wav wherever their careers that we are aware ol I et me assure you other sources of funds to replace stale may lake them alter they leave the that we still have a sizable percentage ol lunds I Ik- loss ot 44 senior professors college We arc considering our course our students (upwards of 12 percent) at one time presents a different sort of offerings in close conjunction with the who arc farm reared, and this number challenge to the college We arc not sure College of I nginccring and others who has actually increased since a decade at this point exactly how many ol those offer courses in computer literacy We ago In addition, it appears that al least positions we will be able to refill fight will determine what needs to be done in one-third ol our students have had farm ol these lacultv lines have already been our curriculum to meet this goal experience Our freshman class, as in filled, and there are seven searches A bigger challenge and possibly the the past, is well balanced with respect to currently under way I his leaves us with more interesting one is the use of upstate versus downslate and is certainly the opportunity to examine and possibly computers to enhance instruction in an exciting group of students who will make program changes in another 20 many of our courses We have active challenge our faculty in the classroom positions programs under way ranging from agri We also had a strong pool ol transfer At the Geneva I xpenment Station we cultural engineering and animal science students, including more than 100 from had seven vacancies created last year, Since the last issue of ihc News. there to the leaching of introductory biology the agricultural and technical colleges including the retirement of Donald have been many developments in the I he latter is being supported by a This program of matriculation Irom the Barton as director Prof I am Hood, college that I would like to review lor contract with the IBM Corporation, six agricultural and technical colleges the assiK'iate director of research on the you. This certainly has been an exciting which will be providing microcomputers continues to proceed very well Ithaca campus, lias assumed the and busy summer and monetary support last year the state of New York directorship of the Geneva Experiment The board of trustees’ recent decision Over the last fisc years the college has offered an enhanced retirement Station He is working closely with his to tum down the architectural design for attempted Io address many of the hard program to all slate employees over age faculty to outline future program thrusts Academic I came as a bit of a surprise ware needs by providing a large number 55 in an attempt to reduce the size ol for the potential new faculty members al to all of us. Although the college was of remote terminals so the faculty world the state payroll I hirty-seven ol our that important institution not responsible for the exterior design, have access to the mainframe computer, senior faculty took advantage ol this As I said in the beginning, it has been we arc disappointed that the project has and where appropriate, providing program Combined with a few resigna an exciting six months, with new chal been delayed for 18 months to two microcomputers for use by individual tions and several deaths, we lost 44 lenges presented every day I am greatly years. You should understand that the faculty members or in teaching situa senior faculty this past year In the short encouraged by the quality of the college’s responsibility in a project like tions.Up until this year we had one run we were fortunate in bang able to students we continue to attract, the this is limned to the internal functioning microcomputer laboratory that has been hire some of these people back on a quality ol the new faculty that we have of the building We were satisfied that used extensively in a number of courses part-time basis, but it has been neces been able to hire in the past year, the Academic I. as designed with the archi Some of the other courses were taught sary to hire temporary lecturers and productivity ol our continuing faculty, tect. would work quite well for the by Utilizing the mainframe through others to plug some of the holes in the and the general respect with which the college’s activities in the facility. The remote terminals classroom I he state has reduced our college is held by our colleagues university is responsible for the exterior With the decreasing costs of electronic funding, and we are hard al work throughout the nation design, and that is where the problem technology we will he moving to a figuring out how to handle this latest I he support we have received from arose Momentarily we expect the decentralized system where we will be challenge As you are probably aware, our alumni and friends, both monetary appointment of a new architectural firm, using microcomputers much more inten this is another in a series of personnel and moral, has been most encouraging and we will start the project from sively than the mainframe in the reductions that the college has been With great students, a great faculty and ground zero The plan to locate on the teaching and instructional area This will subjected to over tile past decade as the solid alumni support, it is easy to west end of the Agricultural Quadrangle necessitate the establishment of a state has attempted to deal with some ol predict an excellent future for the is unchanged. number of microcomputer laboratories its fiscal crises college Although we arc disappointed with I suppose that at one time a biological Since 1979 80 we have lost 152 stale- David I. C all this delay on Academic I. I am pleased sciences laboratory was considered quite funded lines in the college (at both to report that Academic II is on sche innovative, and now we have many of dule and should be completed within a them We now arc in a situation where « ominued from page I) year. As I look out my office windows. we need to establish laboratories In 1970. Sharp served as a consultant I can sec that the bricklayers arc Up to equipped with 20 to 30 microcomputers Agriculture and l.ife Sciences News u to the SI AIO-PHS Hospital in Dacca. the fourth floor and everybody is that arc fully networked and available published twice a rear bv the New York Bangladesh, following his studies excited about what this great new for faculty so they can conduct classes State College <>/ Agriculture and l.i/e demonstrating that cholera toxin facility will do for us in the areas of in this type of a laboratory Al this Silences, a statutors college ot the State stimulates the enzyme adenylate cyclase entomology, biology, and biology point, we foresee five of these laborato I'nivenitv. al Cornell I’nivenitv. Ithaca. in its action to cause massive diarrhea teaching It is certainly much needed ries being established in the college We N.Y. I4H5J After several years of studying the I never thought that as dean of the have already started a renovation Dean: toxin’s mechanism ol action, he began a College of Agriculture and file Sciences project in Mann I ibrary lor one major David I. Call systematic search lor pharmacological I would have to become a quasi- facility and there probably will be agents effective in the treatment ol Associate Dean: computcr expert, but with the rapid another one in Riley-Robb. at least two severe diarrheal disease, research lunded Kenneth E. Hmg advances in electronic technology it is in Warren Hall, and one in the new by the John A Hartford Foundation clear that computers arc going to play a entomology building We arc currently Assistant Io the Dean: and the National Institutes ol Health major role in the future educational exploring some innovative ways of (Henn () Mai Millen His current work in this area is on the activities of the college. Administra providing the equipment lor these control mechanisms involved in Public Affairs: tively. computers and electronic tech laboratories and for the faculty who intestinal transport and the effects ol (Jerald H Hill nology arc going to have an impact on wish to design curriculum materials or pharmacologic agents. how we conduct our business We are software packages that could be used in Editor and Writer: During a year’s sabbatical leave at the looking forward to the time when the teaching of their courses Zorika Petic Henderson Institute ol Clinical Biochemistry at the offices cin be networked with word With the rapid changes in technology University ol Geneva. Switzerland, in Managing Editor: processing machines or personal compu we arc experiencing, this has been a 1973. he developed a long-term interest Ulen Murph I Bonn ters At this point we arc delayed in very interesting process to work out It in diabetes research Using a blend ol moving too far in that area until the seems that every lime we turn around Designer: pharmacological, biochemical, and university decides to put in a new phone there is a new piece of equipment avail Barbara Lynch Drogo physiological approaches. Sharp is system Our antiquated system will not able with increased or enhanced capa studying control mechanisms of C opy Editor support very many networking possibili bility al a lower cost hormone synthesis and release in the Kai Barnes One is tempted to hold off. waiting ties I look forward to the day when pancreas. electronic mail will greatly reduce the lor a better deal or a better piece of Photographers: In 1978. lie joined the faculty of lulls equipment, hut it is a constantly moving Donah! 4 Usern. John Pachai paper flow among the dean’s office, University as professor and chairman ol target so we are making some decisions departments, and individual lacultv and the department ol physiology in the Production Coordinator: now on specific equipment that should staff schools of medicine, dental medicine, Marilvn M Kells A second major area ol responsibility be in place within the year. These new and veterinary medicine He joined the Contributing W riters: is in ensuring that our students arc facilities, courses, and attitudes on the department ol pharmacology at Yong H Kun. Roscoe E Krauss. Susan computer literate. Computer literacy part of the faculty will keep our educa Cornell’s veterinary college as professor S lang. Ire Stoll, II Roger Segelken. means different things to different tional offerings in the forefront and chauman in 1980 Benni 4 Spingarn, David I Stewart people, and obviously it is not the Another exciting development this college’s responsibility to train computer summer was in watching the admissions H Roger Segelken Produced by Media Services at Cornell design experts or even to tram computer process and acceptances We have prob I nivenits programmers Hut certainly all of our ably the highest quality group ol students should be familiar with licshmcn ever admitted to the college A Partnership: Broadcasting and Extension
I arm broadcasting is practically as old as broadcasting itself. and America's tuned their dials lo WGY in Schenec .igiuullur.il programming to dozens ol tady. which began larm broadcasting in other I M and AM stations in most ol land-giant colleges and Cooperative I xtension were involved from its earliest 1925 with ' larm Paper ol (he Air"and upstate New York and parts ot Connect "I aim I oitiin " Both programs were beginnings Kill. Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania directed bv G Emerson Markham, also I hat partnership was undcrtcored in Boh Child of WGY was hired to direct known to listeners as "County Agent Julv when Cornell was host lor the farm-service programming lor the Robbins " In 1944. it was Markhum 1983 meeting ol the National Associa Ithaca-based "Rural Radio Network." who helped .start lhe National Associa tion ol f arm Broadcasters I wo which lasted seven years Some form ol tion of Earm Broadcasters. hundred (arm broadcasters and NAI B agricultural programming was continued Others who became popular with the associate members, including govern on a limited basis over the years by larm ansi urban audiences in lhe capital ment employees and professionals in RRN's successor, the Northeast Radio district were Bill Givins, Don I utile, related fields, attended the event Netwoik. until tile late 1960s when and Charles John Stevenson, all doing I arm broadcast mg began 62 years ownership and programming changed tile Chanticleer" program on 3kkiY ago. around the time that the first considerably Among the many I hey were up and in the studio each Northeast Network programs popular commercial radio station licenses were day long before there was a hint of with city-folk and larmcrs alike was issued Some reports claim that KOK A / I ! hf t-KHKk awn- r/« < !.<>»// crowing Irom the thousands of barns in "Weather Roundup." which featured in Pittsburgh, the nation's first commer /
Vitamin C Improves Iron Nutrition in Philippine Children
Much research has explored how (PhD Nl> in coopeiation with the Significant improvements in iron lood fortification might help to control < ebii Institute ol Mcdicinc'and Nutri Initially promising laboratory tests status were seen in all three treatment iron-delicicncy anemia, one of the most tion k enter ol the Philippines Aguilar, showed that a mixture ol ascorbic acid gloups and especially among the anemic prevalent nutritional problems world- who has .m M 11 degree Irom the and MSG was chemically stable 11 losi children Irom the vitamin k group who w wie I niversity ol (iiuitcmala. pursued his kss than five percent of its potency in had greater iron stores and more iron- Attempts to include iron in cereals, doctoral work in the k orncll interna six months, tire average shcll-lile ol containing hemoglobin in then red sugar, salt ami other staples have tional nutrition program with the commercial MSG m the Philippines blood cells by the end ol the study seldom succeeded because ol the many support ot a fellowship Irom the 33 K But within a month of storage, the forti k lllldren who icvcived vitamin 3 alone technical problems encountered in Kellogg I amidation Before coming to fied MSG caked and turned slightly or with vitamin k also showed marked adding clicmicul forms ol iron to food Cornell, he was a medical officer with yellow 33 |icn exposed lo high tempera improvement tn hemoglobin levels, even But a recent Cornell study shows that the Institute of Nutrition lor Central lure and humidity, the kitchen condi il they had not been anemic increasing vitamin C intake may be u America and Panama in Guatemala and tions it would he subjected to m daily In practical terms, the study suggests promising alternative to iron chid of (he department of nutrition at use. it also turned blown that until a successful method ol iron the Guatemala Ministry ol Public loililication I uitlrer tests may yet overcome these lortilicuiion is found, measures that X itanun I. or ascorbic acid, is a well- Health problems, hut Aguilar proceeded wuh increase the intake ol vitamins A and < Aguilar's first obstacle was finding a known iron enhancer II increases the his study bv distributing vitamin C are effective alternatives tor improving lood loi loililication that would reach a solubility and absorption of iron and supplements instead iron status in those suilermg liom poor, subsistence population l he appears to reverse die effects ol iron lhe Ib-monlh field study included anemia vitamin earner needed to be cheap, inhibitors such as lea and sov proteins about 200 children who showed signs of Aguilar recommends that the search widely consumed, and suitable chemi Siner this ability to enhance iron's anemia, as well as their unafilicted continue for a food that can be- fortified cally and physically lor fortification availability io the body has been docu siblings I he children's families were wuh vitamin C. because supplementa mented in animal, clinical, ami meta lie settled on monosodmni glutamate divtded into tour study groups, a tion may not be an appropriate public (MSG), a populai condiment in lhe bolic studies, ascorbic acid has been control group that received unfortified health measure He also endorses suggested as a wu y to improve iron Philippines MSG had already proved MSG and three treatment groups that programs that encourage the consump nutrition in countries where most satisfactory lor vitamin A fortification received an ascorbic acid supplement tion ol vitamin C Irom natural sources dietary iron is limned when rested by Cornell and Philippine with plain MSG. or MSki tonified with Although fruits and vegetables high in But two practical questions remained: researchers in a program to control vitamin A. or both vitamin A and this vitamin arc abundant in the Philip finding a system lor ascorbic acid forti vitamin A deficiency vitamin C pines and other tropical countries, they Il MSG could he fortified with fication m anemic populations, and The children receiving lhe supple are not widely eaten lhere testing the feasibility and effectiveness ol vitamin C as well. Aguilar could use it ments consumed at least 50 mg of addi Aguilar is now a medical nutritionist to examine whether iron status is tonification under community condi tional vitamin C per meal, twice a day with the International Nutrition I mt ol affected by both vitamins A and C A tions This W.1S enough lo increase tlic absorp the U.S Department ot Health and I hew problems were the basis of a relationship between vitamin A defi tion ol iron Irom their diets by 10 Human Services in Rockville. Md study undertaken by Juan K Aguilar ciency and anemia has been suggested percent. - Prnm 4 Spingam Rearing Black Flies in Captivity: A Search for a River Blindness Cure
While merely a nuisance in this Economically, he adds, the conse to lay them The eggs arc collected by country, black flics cause severe health quences are also harsh In some villages, hand and placed on the netting of the land socioeconomic problems for people as many as 20 percent of the people arc fast-running artificial streams, thus living in the fertile nver-basin regions of blind and unable to work. beginning a new cycle Africa and latin America. In the hardest-hit areas, the mam Each procedure involving adult flics Black flics, which abound in the heal attempt at control ol the black fly has has salcguards to prevent any from and humidity of the tropics, arc hosts to been the dispensing of a larvicide, temc- escaping, when they Iced, for instance, a worm that causes river blindness (also phos. into waterways The chemical is they do so inside small tents known in Central America as Robles' "safe, as far as pesticides go.” Cupp In a triple-screened room inside the disease). An estimated 40 million people says, but it is far from an ideal solution mam lab. Cupp and his associates douse are infected with this parasitic worm. Also, the flies have started developing the flics with humidiled carbon dioxide Onchocerca volvulus. and the only resistance to it to induce unconsciousness Using an available treatments are so unpleasant While there has been basic knowledge extremely fine syringe attached to a that they are often refused about the fly and its parasite, trying to microscope a device invented by "The primary drug in use." says Ed understand the insect in detail has been former graduate student James l.ok W. Cupp, associate professor of medical hindered by the inability to mimic its the researchers inject 10 worms into lhe thorax of each fly. "We have practiced entomology, "causes severe itching and ( ung a finr nnngc auathrd to a murtmopr. habitat in the laboratory I he insects swelling People arc driven nearly crazy aiuiiant 4nthom tn/fiH bk/ik therefore had to be collected in inade this technique to the point where we can by it What happens is that the drug- Ihri *ith the peraun. norm ihot <0uw*> rixrr quate numbers in the wild and taken now inject 60 to 70 flics per hour." killed parasites are recognized by the bhndnm back to laboratories, where they didn't Cupp says. body as a foreign substance, and the live long enough for the kind of inten I he worms arc taken from skin biop skin which is the main place the bites, when both male and female lai vac sive. long-range research that would sies collected from victims of river worms live responds with a violent have been deposited into the skin, the potentially yield solutions blindness J o obtain samples. Cupp and immune reaction worms mature and reproduce Someone Five years ago. Cupp and graduate his team periodically go to Guatemala ' “Topical preparations have been tried, bitten only a few times is not likely to student Richard Brenner visited a scien and I iberia where the disease is endemic but they had serious consequences to become ill. tist at the National Center for Disease and set up a computer-controlled escape, the worms burrowed deeper in The disease is transmitted as the Control in Atlanta, who had started freezing system that uses liquid nitrogen the body, or migrated even more female fly picks up the embryonic using commercial equipment to breed I he computer is programmed to freeze quickly into the eyes." form microfilaria of the worms from black flics but discontinued the work lhe skin samples at a precise fall of Cupp and his research team are the infected blood, and then following because of the equipment's limitations temperature to avoid killing the worms. first scientists to devise a system for development, deposits them into another Examining the machine, called an Doctors and other medical personnel do rearing black flics in captivity on a person. The process is not a kind oik Aqua-lab, Cupp and Brenner decided the actual collecting of samples. continuous basis, thus opening the door for the fly. either The worms must first that a workable system could be Back in Ithaca, the skin biopsies to a study of a safe envirdnmcntal perforate the fly's stomach, after which created. continue to be preserved in liquid control or a vaccine The scientists arc they lodge in ns flight muscles and molt To simulate the flics' habitat. Cupp nitrogen at a temperature of minus 272 working on the entomological aspects of When a fly infects a person or animal, it and his assistants built six breeders that degrees centigrade When they arc ready river blindness and supply medical is because the worms have broken contain sloped channels, approximately IO be used, rhe samples are placed in a researchers wrth insects raised in the through the fly's mouthparts as it is seven by two feet, over which fast- saline solution and are thawed Io allow Schwardt laboratory at Cornell biting flowing water is continually pumped the worms to emerge There arc 40 to 100 species of black As the disease progresses, massive Plastic netting covers the channels, Injected lab flies arc kept in incuba fly in the United States, but none is a nodules form as the body attempts to creating microcurrcnts and providing tors and fed sugar water long enough vector (or parasites that would pose a cordon off the adult worms; the secure anchors for the larvae, much as for the worm larvae to develop, usually human health hazard. Cupp notes They person's skin loses elasticity and hangs they would find in streambeds lhe around 10 days Then the flies arc arc aggravating in the Northeast, in loose folds. Dermatitis and loss of larvae arc filter-feeders, living off par placed in liquid nitrogen, which kills however, for the approximately two pigmentation also develop ticles of plant matter in waterways, and them but preserves the worms , months they reign over rivers and By far the worst consequence is food that closely simulates their diet is indefinitely for years if necessary streams. blindness The microfilariae migrate to ground rabbit chow. A refrigerated tank With this huge collection of worms. Persistent, more than willing to go the eye. where their presence elicits a next to the breeders pumps the chow Cupp's lab will be able to supply inside socks and other tight clothing, the destructive immune response that over a through tubes into lhe channels medical researchers all over the world bloodsucking insects leave an unsightly period of time results in permanent When the larvae pupate and a lew with study material. In the near future, bite behind. Unlike the mosquito, which ocular lesions. days later arc ready to emerge as adults, worms will be regularly shipped to the drains blood neatly similar to a "River blindness is also a social a large black hood is lowered over the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in syringe the black fly tears skin open tragedy.” Cupp states, "placing people streams A glass funnel at the top of the Washington. D C., where experiments with scissorlikc jaws The result is a in very hard moral dilemmas What is hood admits light and attracts the arc under way to find a suitable animal pool of blood beneath the skin that can to be done with young adults who have insects, which bump into each other and model for study ing river blindness take a while to heal lost their vision, in a village where all mate Cupp's research has been funded In contrast to their one-gcncration- who arc able-bodied have to keep As with mosquitos, the adult females from the beginning by the U.S Dept of pcr-year existence in temperate climates, working in order to survive?" Others need a blood meal in which to deposit Agriculture, and more recently by the the flics arc prolific in the tropics for cannot take tunc out to care for them and nourish each batch of eggs In the World Health Organization five or six months of the year, particu without hardship for all involved, and lab. animal and human blood arc "We're very excited to be able to con larly along rivers where they exist in there is little or no government aid heated to human body temperature and tribute to the cure of this disease." Cupp dense populations. "You see countless people in their late are placed in dishes covered with a says "When we started our research. I People living in these regions arc pri 20s and early 30s being led by children, synthetic, skinlikc membrane. couldn't have dreamed we would be this marily farmers and arc outside much of who have literally become their 'eyes'. After the flics have finished feeding, far along in five years in our knowledge the day With each additional bite and Soon, many of these children will begin they arc placed in screened cages to of the black fly." injection of worm larvae by the fly. the to lose their own sight and ultimately develop their eggs, and then arc trans degree of illness increases After many will depend on others to sec for them." ferred to a chamber with running water
(C ununurd from pour I) levels of selenium tn the soil arc known nicotine, serum high-density lipoprotein, what dietary conditions the protective Directing the Chinese component of to be extraordinarily low." says T. Colin a measure of cholesterol status; dietary factors operate " the program is Junshi Chen. M D.. fiber, and several enzymes that reflect Campbell, professor of nutritional Other Cornell investigators who will from the Chinese Academy of Medical sciences at Cornell and director of the the functional significance of various direct individual projects or consult with Sciences Dr. Chen spent eight months nutrient intakes. program. the research team include Robert S in the Division of Nutritional Sciences Stable food intake and migration pat "This is a research opportunity Parker, assistant professor of nutritional in 1980 81 Also working on the unlikely to exist anywhere else in the terns make the Chinese ideal subjects for sciences; latrry C Clark, assistant pro project are Richard Peto. a cancer a study of the relationship between world." Campbell points out "Using fessor of preventive veterinary medicine; researcher and epidemiologist al Oxford cancer and dietary factors. In addition. data from China and experimental Gerald F. Combs Jr., associate profes University. England, and Kenneth D Chinese scientists recently completed a laboratory projects to be undertaken at sor of animal nutrition. Walter T Fisher, director of the Life Sciences nationwide cancer-mortality survey of Cornell, we will have the opportunity to Federer. Liberty Hyde Bailey professor Research Office at the Federation ot X00 million people, almost 97 percent of explore lhe effects of nutrients on car of biological statistics. Daphne A Roe. American Societies for Experimental the population cinogenesis under controlled conditions. M D.. professor, and Bertha A 1 XW1S. Biology m Bethesda. Md "China is an ideal place to study the "We hope to be able to determine the associate professor, both in the Division relationship of selenium and human most important dietary risk factors, of Nutritional Sciences, and Peter J Susan 5. laing cancer because in one geographical area. which ones arc protective, and under VanSocst. professor of animal nutrition Managing Private Forests: Protecting Investments and the Environment
Money docs grow on trees, but with and costly job." less, the DEC will oiler direct, free variable yields, l-or private landowners, Letting woods take their natural advice. knowledge of forest practices and course, instead of thinning trees to allow Private consulting foresters, who market prices can spell the difference valuable hardwoods room Io grow large oversee the owner-logger transaction between a valuable asset and a tax and straight stems at fast rales, is a from star! to finish, usually arc paid burden common mistake, lassoie points out through a set percentage of the final sale "l-cw people know the worth of their The value of wood, particularly that price “I can say flatly," lassoie states, trees or woodlois." says James I’ used in furniture making, is dictated in “that the nonindustrial lorcst owner lassoie. associate professor in lhe pan by how few knots a tree has the should always come out ahead by hiring natural resources department. With the more branches, the more knots, thus a professional forester " increasing demand for lirewood, he making it less usable. The forester will mark trees to be cut. points out. people are often cutting trees I no much space around trees can select reputable loggers as bidders, nego prematurely, not realizing that in just a produce so-called "wolf” trees, those tiate the terms of lhe written contract few years' time the trees would increase that have put their energy into forming such as route of access over creeks and tremendously in value , large crowns and many branches at the who gels to keep slash for lirewood. "It takes hardwood trees such as oaks expense of their trunks. Solitary trees and supervise lhe work at least 60 years to grow to a diameter around houses would fit into this cate So that wildlife habitat isn't elimi ol about 14 inches However, under gory . Lassoie say s nated by overzcalous thinning of low- ideal growing conditions these trees may The goal is to have trees close enough value sawlimber trees, the forester also add an additional six inches to their to restrain unruly growth but not so can guide the owner on which "value diameters during the next 15 20 years, dose that there is excessive competition less" trees to leave standing. thereby increasing their saw timber for sunlight and food A fine, though Eor information about forests and values at least fivefold " unrealistic, model to keep in mind. woodlots. New York State residents can I ack of preparation also leaves Lassoie adds, is a huge black walnut obtain a lire listing of publications owners vulnerable to sales pitches. tree that was sold in Ohio a few years available through Cooperative Extension "Otten, timber buyers will go to the ago. With a perfectly straight trunk and by writing to Extension Secretary. door of a landowner and offer a price about 90 feet to lhe first branch, the Department of Natural Resources. that seems attractive but actually may "If a stand of trees is at the top ol a tree commanded $30,000. Cornell University. Ithaca. N.Y. 14853 he thousands ol dollars below current hill," Lassoie cites as an example, “it Because timber prices arc complex, 1 hose considering a sale in the near market value Or. there will be a finan will take a lot less time for the logger to varying by grade, region, demand, site future might also want to consult Stump cial crisis of some son in the lamily. lake his equipment straight up and accessibility, and other factors, laissoic age Price Reports, published in January and the trees are sold in a hurry, down to drag the trees out. Based on advises landowners to hire professional and July by the DEC. which lists wiihoui the kind ot careful planning that appioach. he can offer the owner foresters when considering a sale In average prices per tree species for each that such a transaction needs." what sounds like a good deal in the New York State, the Department ol region of the state, and Marketing Assuming lhai lite timber buyer is in short run However, the land probably Environmental Conservation (DEC) cun Bulletin, published every two months by ottering a fair price. he and lhe will be depreciated, financially and provide mlerevlcd landowners with a list rhe SUNY College of Environmental landowner ntav nevertheless havEvery environmentally. by erosion1, tn this of foresters who have met jrrofesciona! Science and forestry and lhe DBC. different ideas about what that price case, the correct method, to base the cruel la as consultants l-or jrcopk: who includes skid traits contoured, is a more involved have small holdings of trees. 10 acres or
Ethel Zoe Bailey Dies
I thcl Zoe Bailey. 93. botanist and One ol their expeditions was to the Horticulture (1914 1917) and 77ic maintaining the home on Sage Place editor, died July 15. 1983 in Tompkins wild jungle of Barro Colorado in the Manual of Cultivated Plants (1924). where her family had lived since 1899 Community Hospital following a brief Panama Canal Zone Disregarding was coauthor with him of Hortus Ms Bailey's horticultural work won illness warnings about disease and boa 11930) and Hortus Second (1941). and her the George Robert White Medal of She was (he daughter of Liberty constrictors, she and her father, who served as editor of his Genies Herba the Massachuscts Horticultural Society Hyde Bailey, lhe college's first dean and was then 73. and several other botanists rium through its first eight volumes. in 1967 and in 1970 the Smith College a famed botanist and educator, and made their way through hip-deep water In 1935. following the formal estab Medal Annette Smith Bailey of the Mohmga Swamp in search ol a lishment of the I. If Bailey Hortorium. She is sunned by a niece, Annette Eor the first 10 years of her life. Ms rare palm she became its curator, serving until her Page of Ithaca, and a nephew. Samuel Bailey lived with her family on East I hey found it growing in the swamp, retirement in 1957 It was only a tech Sailor of laramie. Wyo.. both of whom Avenue, where their home was a as Liberty Hvdc Bailey had predicted, nical retirement, however, because she she raised after their mother, Sara Mac- classroom-al -large. students dropping by and photographed it in a downpour and continued to donate her services to the Bailey Sailor, died in 1936 She is also daily lor tea and informal discussions with the camera tripod nearly Hortorium several days a week, working survived by several great-nieces and with Dean Bailey (Phillips Hall, which submerged in water on her monumental index to the world's great-nephews houses the School of Electrical Engi Ms Bailey played a substantial role cultivated plants until shortly before her neering. now stands where the Bailey in the production of her father's publica death She was self-sufficient to the end. home was I She had known all ol tions The Standard Cyclopedia of driving herself to and trom campus and Cornell's presidents, meeting the first. Andrew Dickson White, when she was two Ms Bailey was the first woman in Ithaca to receive a driver's license lhe mam problem with cars in those days, she once remarked to a Iricnd. was that they (rcquently stalled They had to be hand cranked to start again and she would often find herwll alone al a total lull on Ithaca's steep hills Men would come to her rescue, but it was usually her own practiced efforts, she recalled proudly that got the car moving again Alter graduating from Smith College in 1911. Ms Bailes began working with hei father at what is now 'he Bailey Hortorium She was the editor of many ol her lather's books and articles and hrs field assistant on collecting expedi 11M /!» fciAv (/r.«J m a famdi ink -n amund ISV6 -uh Umtl Unit Buik.. ua lo the uninitiated, the law can be Gtossiitan is an adviser to practicing Brian I < habot and Robert J intimidatingly obscure in its language journalists as well serving as president Y oung have been named associate direc arui intent I he confusion, says lawyer ot the board of directors ol The Cornell tors lor research in the college and also and ag economics lecturer Dale Arrison Iknh Sun Shi and lhe other uniwisity will serve as associate directors ol the Grosman, arises largely from the very and community professionals take a Cornell I mwrsity Agricultural I speci precision ol statements used. wuh quali decidedly backseat role in decision men! Station Maik K Spiro has been fications nestled inside qualifications to milking, she says, and arc there more as appointed assistant director lor research cover all contingencies a sounding hoaid lor the student editors < habot. chairman of the section ol As part ol her work. Grossman and managers. ecology and systematics in the Division "translates" federal and state laws lor "Despite the annual turnover on the ol Biological Sciences lor three years, New Yorkeis. paying particulai atten paper's stall, it is a remarkably consis will serve pail time thiough IX-ccmbcr tion lo estate planning lor larm families tent and successful publication Il's and then lull lime starling in January Estate planning, deciding who will really amazing to think licit the Sun lias lie will work with (acuity members in inherit what and how to protect as been aiourid lor l(M wars and that it plant sciences, including agronomy, much as possible from being taxed, is has alway s been so independent ol the entomology, iloriculture and ornamental “an unpleasant topic at best. ' she says university “ horticulture, plant biology plant Kindling the desire lo procrastinate lhe writers and editors, she remarks pathology, plant breeding pomology, indefinitely is the fact that wills can be seem wry aware ol their responsibility vegetable crops, the Bailes Hortoriuyi. complex readcis on issues such as social security lo people they're covering and realize the < orncll Plantations, and the I ong Also, many people do not realize. taxes, access lo personal credit records, tlic importance ol corroborating tacts Island Horticultural Research labora Grossman points out. that a spouse is contracts, labor laws, and how to that are potentially damaging to reputa tory He also will give attention to not automatically entitled lo receive tlic choose a lawyer In the last instance, she tions multidisciplinary piograms such as bulk ot the assets. In the absence ot a suggests that people be frank in Her legal counsel lor the paper has agroccosy stems and integrated pest will, "under New York State law where discussing finances and prolcssional been called on seriously only once. management there arc no children, lor instance, the expectations Grossman says, and that was lor a Chabot earned a B S. degree (1965) surviv mg spouse receives the first In evaluating fees. Grossman says, particularly sensitive article Irom the College ol Vk illi.im and Mary S25.000 II the estate exceeds that, all "with lawyers. you usually gel what you Univcrsitywidc. Grossman serves as a and a Ph D <1971) from Duke I niver- the remaining assets are split 50 50 with pay for " counselor to students contemplating a sity the deceased spouse's parents " People should expect common cour career in law Recalling as a guide her Young, recently named professor lhe need lor advice on estate plan tesy Irom lawyers, she notes, and not be own reaction to tlic first year ol b» emeritus, served as chairman ol the ning increased m 19X1. when federal subicctcd to long waits in the lobby or school. Grossman advises students to department ot animal science loi almost legislation was passed that increased the missed appointments In fact, some work in a law office il possible lor a sewn years and the department ot amount ol property that can be trans studies show licit clients rate honesty summer or to take paralegal training lor poultry and avian sciences lor more ferred free ol estate tax. In I9K3. that and courtesy of the lawyer as being even a year to see il they’re CUI out lor it Ilian 11 sears lie will sene pail time, amount is $273,000 Starting in 19X7. more important than competence Although she grew up as the daughter concentrating in research on production the first S600.000 (alter deductions) can Once a lawyer is chosen, clients ol a public delendci in lamcstown. agriculture and on the college’s research be transferred tax tree A» part of the should be prepared to pi <> vide all tlic -\aY . and was exposed lo die law. sire lacdincs Mild SCI vices Young will work rev Lscd law. there is also an unlimited necessary inlornuiiion and lo become was nevertheless surpriaxl by whul she wuh faculty member, in animal science. marital deduction, permitting unre working partners "You hire a law ver to encountered as a student "Y ou have lu agiicullur.il engineering, microbiologv stricted. tax-free transfer of property to do legal work for you But you have to learn lo tolerate lhe tact that there arc lood science, physiology. and poultry the surviving spouse As a result of be willing to put time into it. too You no clean, predictable answers Some- and avian sciences In addition, he will these changes in the federal tax laws, it can't just dump a pile ol papers on the people can never get over that hurdle he involved in inteidepaitmcntal is important, particularly for married lawyers desk and leave Be involved, tor cither in school or as practicing programs such as life salety and inte couples, to review their estate plans. your own good Youll get better service lawyers " grated reproductive management and Grossman says. and more respect " lhe image most people haw of a protects with the New York Stale Because many legal aspects of farms Grossman also teaches a communica lawyer's career is wrong, she points out College ol Veterinary Medicine' at are unique, workshops lor lawyers inter tion arts course on media and the law "lhere arc few Perry Mason types ol < orncll ested in learning more about agricultural to help prospective journalists avoid cases for an average lawyer Many work He received a B S A (Honors) degree law were started by the college lour legal problems and understand First tor banks, large corporations, or legisla (1950) Irom the University ol British years ago Grossman is working with Amendment rights "I he message I try tures" as behind-the-scenes counsel Columbia and a Ph I) degree (1953) Joseph B Bugliarr. prolessor of agricul to convey is 'donY try to compromise She says being a lawyer has taught from Cornell tural economics, and other faculty al what you're saying because of tear ol her inductive reasoning that she finds Mark Spiro will serve as the manager Cornell, in presenting lectures and litigation, but don't be loo cavalier, useful in all areas of her life "I stop to ot financial and project records, seminars and in attempting to establish either Ihink Aon something is being consider the dillcrcnt sides and interpre providing administrative assistance to a network of lawyers knowledgeable in said." tations ol a situation before I take any the directors, working with other finan this field "A complainant will sue sometimes precipitous action " It teaches you. cial managers al Cornell, and preparing A farm-related legal problem that has even il the account is basically true, but Grossman says, to watch yourself in the ongoing reports been a difficult one lor banks is that ol if it's been said in a scnsationahstic way process of thinking and to pause at each Spiro earned B A (1972) and M S administering a trust made up of farm or in a way ambiguous enough to allow step (or review (1973) degrees Irom Ithaca College and assets "For a typical family estate." a false meaning to be construed More a B Sc. (1976) from Dalhousic Univer Grossman explains, "assets can be than anything else, journalists have to sity in Canada handled in a straightforward way. Il is be lair " — Daviil I Slenari mainly paperwork, contacting brokers, that sort of thing. But with u farm, what is a trust officer to do? "In the long run. someone can prob ably be lured to manage the farm In lhe short run. there arc 200 cows that Career Planning and have to be milked immediately and the feed, veterinary services, bills, and all the rest have to be taken care of Placement Programs Win State Awards somehow "I or that reason, many banks don't like to deal with larms held in trust Three ol the five awards presented College ol Agriculture and Life Sciences In the "media presentations, adver I hey usually just refuse lo administer this year by the Stale University of New won an cxccllcnce-in-piogramming tising. and publications" category. (lie trusts And if local banks won't do York (SUNY) Career Development award for its monthly "Job Opportuni Human Ecology's 19X1 "Careers" it. you know Chase Manhattan won't Organization went lo two statutory ties" bulletin. The bulletin is (rec to brochure was honored the brochure, touch it " colleges at Cornell graduating seniors and on a subscription targeted to prospective applicants and lo 1 his issue is being studied and Cited for excellence in programming basis to alumni recruiters, presents statistics on recent debated by Grossman. Bugliari. and the by the statewide group were the colleges Also in that category, the new on- graduates new Agricultural Inw Committee of the of Agriculture and I ife Sciences and campus recruitment program in the The coordinator of the career devel state's bar association to develop mech Human Ecology lhe SUNY Career College of Human Ecology won an opment office at AES is William N anisms that would encourage and enable • Development Organization includes two honorable mention. The 19X2 X3 Alberta, and the director of placement banks to become more involved as trus institutional groups lour-yvar colleges program was the first full-ycar recruit in the College of Human Ecology is tees and two-year agricultural and technical ment program in that college, involving I ynne M Wiley. Through extension publications. colleges 13 corporate and human-services - /tan,/ / Siena" Grossman has counseled agents and In the "placement" category, lhe recruiters Extra Alumni tipdate Alum Develops Breakthrough Method for Research Fellowship Started Treating Allergies in Honor of Max Brunk attempting io lind a cure. Knowing by Brunk thought of the concept of a then lhat he was allergic io phenols, supple plastic bag and commissioned a widely present in loods. and salicylates, manufacturer to make a model to his components ol aspirin, some foods. and specifications Shortly alter a test trial in lood preservatives. Gardner began upstate New York, the bags uppeared in researching allergenic properties ol stores thorughout the country and phenolic compounds in loods continue to be the primary type ol He says he found iusf what he was package used for Iruits looking lor in lhe book Pharniatolom Another of his achievements was <>/ Plant Phrnollts. edited by J.W. Fair devising controlled experiments in bairn. a plum scientist. "Ihis was where marketing, techniques which are now I got lhe largest number ol clues about used extensively by producers, food which phenolic compounds I should manufacturers, and retailers in market try - development and production research Among lhe phenolic compounds arc In 19X2. Brunk was named apple silumins, such as riboflavin. Included man of the year by the International also is nicotine, found in loods such as Apple Institute (I Al) During the tomatoes, as well as in tobacco ceremony, the editor ol a trade maga In a quest to solve a decade and a Another phenolic culprit, an aromatic zine noted that one of the highlights ol hull ol ill health. Robert W Gardner called coumarin which gives newly cut IMS Ml. Ph.I) 641 developed a the IAI annual apple-marketing clime is grass Ils sweet smell n in dozens of Brunk s analysts of the industry breakthrough method nF Sfe-rgv testing foods including sugar chneolatr and treatment. -cinnamon. banana*, tuna, mik “Perhaps his greatest accomplishment is ! ibe Imci lhat b< an cconumM -Mui m / An animal science professor at (hit k< 0 l he Western New York Apple actually mjovabk.- to lixicn to.” he Bngliam fining University. Gardner Gardner obtained pure chemical Growers Association and the New York added isolated a large array ol ullcrgenic compounds ol these substances and State Cherry Growers Association have Recently. Brunk received lhe 1983 suhsiances. including 107 phenolic placed drops ol the dilutions ol each started a research fellowship in fruit Golden Apple Award Irom the New compounds natural components and chemical, a dose at a time, under his marketing to honor Max F Brunk, pro York State Apple Growers Association artificial additives which color. I lav or. longue following meals. Although this fessor emeritus ol agricultural In addition, he has earned awards from and preserve foods, and immunized approach was based on the existing economics. the National Apple Institute, the foun himscll against his food ullcigics. provocative-neutralization method, it Kenneth I Pollard, president ol the dation for Floriculture. and the Amer Since his 1979 discovery, hundreds ol was radically different in that it did not apple growers’ association and vicc- ican farm Bureau allergy sufferers across the country have use a broad substance such as corn picsidcnt of the cherry growers’ asso Before joining the Cornell faculty. obtained relief , in some cases dramatic, syrup lor example, but isolated and ciation. said. " I he fellowship is in Brunk was professor ol agricultural eco through the use of Ins treatment tested lor each component ol the syrup recognition ol I’rol. Brunk’s 35 years ol nomics at the University ol Florida, Gardners own story is similar to that to determine which chemicals were lhe service to the fruit industry lie curried where he received his undergraduatc of many allergy Victims, one of futilely of lenders out more than IIX) research studies on degree in 1937 While on the faculty going from doctor to doctor to lind a Sol only was he able to provoke (he marketing, and his work in developing there, lie developed prototypes of correct diagnosis and help. I or 15 allergy symptoms, lie was able, by the polelhylcnc bag in lhe late 1940s vegetable-harvesting equipment and years, he suffered from chronic nausea, monitoring his own reactions, to achieve made an enormous difference not only designed and supervised the construction headaches, diarrhea, and fatigue When the correct neutralizing doses in retail sales ol Iruit. but m the sales ol of the first mechanical celery harvester the symptoms initially appeared, he Six weeks alter he began his experi many other foods " Brunk earned his master's (1941) and thought he had a stubborn case ol the mental treatment, lie revived a pleasant doctoral (1947) degrees at Cornell. llu Hut when the "flu” didn’t improve, surprise. "I periodically challenged doctors told Inm his problems "must be my sell to see if I still had the right due to nerves." neutralizing dose I worked with gallic He later consulted a gastroenterologist acid (a phenolic extract found in nearly who pcilormcd an exploratory opera every food] one day and nothing tion but found only an inflamed intes happened I tried about three different tine I vcnluallv a friend suggested he doses and again nothing happened no contact an allergist in I as Vegas, and change in pulse, no symptoms, or Professor, Alumnus Receive the ensuing tests showed that his symp anything." toms were the result of lood allergies He had expected the symptom I he doctor prescribed a rotation diet suppression cllecl of the compounds to USDA Awards whereby certain classes of foods are be lhe limit ol their usefulness “I had avoided lor periods ol lime to reduce no idea I would develop tolerance to the buildup of allergic reactions I his these chemicals." James 1 Dewey, professor emeritus College- ol the \ irgm Islands, received Since that time. Gardner has been didn’t help, and the next approach tried ol entomology , received the 19X3 the 19X3 USDA Distinguished Service was the provocative-neutralization able to immunize himscll against all his IISDA Superior Service Award lot Ins Award, the USDA's highest honor method of allergy testing and treatment, lood allergies I he result lias been a educational leadership and pioneering lie was cited for his development and first discovered by a St. Joseph. Mo., disappear.nice of symptoms, an increase efforts in the safe use of pesticides management of extension programs that allergist With this method, certain dilu in weight Irom 12X to 150 pounds, and A member ol the faculty since 1944. serve Us models lor technology-transfer tions ol lood extracts arc placed under "an amazing improvement in vitality " Dewey has been active in developing systems m the Virgin Islands, the C arib the tongue where they are quickly One reason lhe rotation diets tradi pesticide policies at the state and federal bean. and other developing countries absorbed by the body and arrest reac tionally used by allergists don’t work levels. Before his retirement last spring, Padda’s graduate adviser at Cornell tions to the food just eaten, Gardner consistently. Frol Gardner explains, is he had been the program leader of was Henry M. Munger, profcssoi found only temporary relief with this that they arc bused on the premise that Cornell’s Chcmicals-Pesticidcs Program emeritus ol vegetable crops method. lood allergies can he subdued by lor almost 20 years I rust rak'd. in 1979 Gardner decided avoiding specific lood families He DarslianS Paddat Ph D ’6X). io apply his scientific knowledge in notes, however, lhat allergenic director of Cooperative Extension a. the (l omtmeil ••» t’afr ' Iaihi Extra Three |nt News and Notes Tours for A I he Al S Alumni Association and the I I here is al least one issue that last three months, seven scholarships ot the Nobel Prize in medicine Other students, faculty, and staff agree on $10,000 each have been established honors include the lasker Award, the College ol Human Ecology will the pressing need for student financial lhe cutback in available federal I ouisa Gross Horwitz Prize. Israel's cosponsor three international lours in aid. It is essential for attracting the most lunds. along with recent trends in tnlla- Wolf Prize, the Kimber Genetics Medal 1984. Each will be three weeks long and promising students, and for many, it tion. have compounded the need lor from the National Academy ol Science, focus on the culture and natural history 4 makes a Cornell education possible private sources of financial aid With all lhe National Medal of Science, and the ot the countries visited Travelers will Our college boasts a scholarship the resources combined, we may still be MacArthur Award. also be able to meet with other Cornell ‘ endowment fund of S200.000. and unable to meet the financial needs of Donald G. Robinson ('41 M.S. ’54) is alumni now living in these countries. coupled with the 78 named scholarships, many deserving students, but we've a past president of the alumni associa I he first tour, to New Zealand and a financial-aid pool ol more than $18 made progress tion and is a retired vocational agricul Australia in April, will include visits to million Last year, these resources were 1 here’s a second point on which ture teacher He is recognized for the three major Australian cities Sydney. distributed to 500 students considered students, faculty, and staff agree a large number of students he sent to Canberra, amd Melbourne Highlighting the most needy and deserving. big thank you is din- those who remem Cornell w ho went on to pursue careers the trip will be a two-wcck lour of the Do the students appreciate it? A bered and made generous gills to the in farming A participant in community North and South Islands ol New recent letter from James A. Clark X4 to college Without your help, the oppor organizations such as Cooperative Zealand his donor says: tunities oflered here would be greatly Extension, the Wyoming County Fair Iri May. a tour group will visit some reduced Board, the Masons, and the Grange. of China's most scenic areas, including I am the recipient of the Henry Five outstanding alumni Jane Donald Robinson had a building on the Beijing (Peking). Hangzhou. Xian. Roberts Memorial Scholarship. As a Brody. Julian Carter. Barbara Wyoming County lairgrounds named Shanghai. Guilin. Suzhou. Nanjing, and Chemung County 4-H and F F.A McClintock. Donald G Robinson, and after him last year. Ins friends estab Guangzhou (Canton) A feature of this member and later a 4-H summer Erton W. Sipher were recognized by lished the Donald G Robinson Scholar trip will be a day-long cruise from assistant. I treasure my friends and the alumni association dunng Autumn ship at AI S experiences there that helped me in Roundup. Erton W. Sipher '43 is lhe owner and pursuit of my career goal I am now Jane Brody '62 is the noted science and operator of a 260-cow dairy farm in president of Cornell Collegiate F.F.A.. health columnist for The New York northern New York, in partnership with chairman of the ALS Student Advisor Times and the recipient of many w riting his son David '69. He has been a leader Program, stockroom manager of the awards. She is the author or coauthor in the Eastern Artificial Insemination department of education s instructional of three books, including the best-selling Co-op (currently president), the advisory materials service -all this while June Brodys’ Nutrition Book. Recently, board for the New York Stale Fair. carrying a full course load here at tn appreciation of her Cornell education, Cooperative Extension, and the St Cornell she established the Jane Brody Scholar Lawrence National Bank He has testi My major in the College of Agriculture ship at the college fied on farm issues before the New York and I ife Sciences is agricultural educa Julian M. Carter I 37, M.S. '54) was for State Assembly and the U S Senate \t tion with the goal of teaching agricul many years a vocational agriculture Cornell, he has served on the I ivestock ture at the high school level. The cost teacher and consultant for vocational Advisory Council, the Al S Advisory of reaching my goal continues to rise agriculture in New York and Vermont Council, the Agricultural Science Advi w ith the price paid for education He has been a tireless contributor to the sory Council, and the Review and Through scholarships such as the college, serving as director. sccretaiy. Lvulualiun Committee lor Coiih.I1- Henr, Robcio. Memorial Scholarship, and president of live alumni association Mincr Insiuuic my dreams can become realities Currently, he is the association's histo Alumni association members will I appreciate your generosity and your rian He had an active role in the Ag once again receive the Cornell Coun interest in me and in all students of Quad Beautification Project, and many tryman starting this tall In response to agriculture. of the trees are the result ol his personal many requests, there will be a new support and ol his efforts in generating feature in the Countryman highlighting Do alumni and friends understand alumni support. news of alumni and appreciate the problem'’ An Barbara A. McC lintock (*23. Ph. I) Glenn O. War Millen increasing number of gifts arc "27) is the internationally renowned Assistant to the Dean earmarked for scholarships. In just the genetics researcher who recently received (Cimunurd frum i>axr I. Ejttta) substances are widely distributed in Mandell, who contributed several most extensively foods. For example, the allergenic chapters to the medical textbook Clin Presenting a paper to the 37th substance malvin is responsible for the ical Ertdogy and is the author of several Annual Congress of the American best-selling books about allergies, say s red color in watermelons, grapes, and College of Alk-rgists in Washington. take Tr Amiu in Vn- /ealirnl tomatoes, alt of which belong to that while nasal bronchial or skin symp D C., in April 1981. McGovern different families of foods. toms usually can be identified readily as reported a high success rale in treating Why directly and repeatedly chal allergy caused, such signs represent a 100 patients with phenolic compounds lenging the body with a substance it is fraction of the ways allergies can be All of the patients, he noted, had severe allergic to elicits an immunity to the expressed. He believes that allergies arc allergies that had resisted traditional allergen is not fully understood. It is overlooked factors in numerous minor treatments Ol these. 40 had been able known that many allergy sufferers have chronic ailments such as headaches, and to hold jobs, but had to wear masks abnormally low levels of "T" lympho that they play a central role in multiple and required stringent environmental cytes. a type of white blood cell that sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases controls both at work and at home Bondareff Scholarship Fund Started by attacks invaders l he levels of these Mandell regards Gardner's findings as Fifty-five patients were unable to work, Daniel N ('35. Chem England Esther lymphocytes frequently rise—indicating "a tremendous breakthrough" because and five were totally disabled, requiring Schiff Bondareff '37. this general enhanced immunity in people receiving they permit detection and treatment of isolation and oxygen scholarship is to be awarded at the neutralizing doses of chemicals to which previously undiagnosable problems After a year of treatment with discretion of the college Both of the they arc allergic Approximately 50 doctors across the Gardner's phenolic compounds. 18 ol Bondaretls are active in the Cornell Adding to the puzzle is the tact that country arc treating patients with the patients reported 100 percent relief Club of Washington; Esther Bondareff this immune deficiency is selective and Gardner's phenolic-compounds method, of their allergy symptoms Of the rest. was president of the club in 1974 75 doesn't appear to result in a greater and 85 doctors and nurses attended a McGovern stated that 72 reported 80 to and president of the Federation of susceptibility to colds or other viral symposium at Brigham Young Univer 95 percent relief, the smallest amount ot Cornell Clubs in 1972 73. I heir son infections. sity last year to learn the treatment. As relief was in one person who reported a Richard C63. Arts) is president ol the Improvements in allergy testing and a result of the symposium, which will be 50 percent improvement Bondareffs chain ol grocery stores. Bon treatment would benefit a large portion an annual event, a group of doctors In an interview. Dr McGovern said Foods. of lhe population Approximately 35 organized a foundation to raise funds that the most enthusiastic converts lo million Americans have been diagnosed for further research Gardners treatment arc allergists whose Jane Brody Scholarship Fund This as having allergies, and there muy be In recognition ol his work. Prof. own symptoms were helped after scholarship was initiated by Jane Brody millions more whose diseases arc allergy Gardner has been appointed an conventional therapies had laik-d '62. science writer and health columnist based hut have been misdiagnosed honorary member ol the ncuroallcrgy "I have tested the system on hundreds lor The New York Tunes Aller graduat Dr. Marshall Mandell, director ol the committee ot the American College ot ol patients.” McGovern said, "and the ing Irom Cornell. Brody attended the New England Foundation lor Allergic Allergists. results have been remarkable A big University ol Wisconsin, where she and Environmental Diseases in Dr Joseph J McGovern, director ol door has been opened because ol Dr received a master's degree in journalism Norwalk, Conn . estimates that allergies the Environmental Illness Research Gardner's discoveries ” in 1963 Brody, who has been with the may be responsible lor half ol the symp Foundation of Calilornia in Oakland, Times since 1965. has received toms patients present to their doctors has applied Gardner's techniques the numerous writing awards, and is the *****★*★*★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Join the CALS Alumni Association now! *?X the Assoctation Services• to tnethe College tjfetinw MembetsW * ~ 1W v,[e6me Same----- afe kept from 'be Address \ t„r.» ■>' £TJ£»i for these Ills' 7-- , — -•< mZe"new ^‘cuUure11 faculty, stude^ =^3=— inlerest was used to ^"scholarship freshman >ci Lite Sciences Stale /’P ' Senior Barbecue is to 'Cat d please I'md check money f(r sSshBS'- amou«‘ °f S 7 „ $200 (•!“' J’“ 11 □ bfc»«< „ $20 per " ‘ • • 1 of Retiring Vacuity n art overs it* ReC«S"'»»" »' » >( ,K w„ association shape our lncs careers. .r Service /Awards ho donate ’SSSs£=S- ™erermS (h£ ,in us Rxpre* Awards are P wtumn R»oo,i“J ,w„!o,»w»o^ Barbecue- Slua.o. 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The scholarship will be avail health Preference in selecting scholar and supervised the thesis studies of Leslie J Herzog 77 in honor of his able to members ol her sorority. Alpha ship recipients will go to students who approximately 50 graduate students In parents, will provide assistance lo grad Epsilon Phi. with second preference are interested in health or biology and 1955. he was named the professor of uate students in food science. Henry given to communication arts majors. who plan to communicate scientific find merit by the college's senior class For Herzog is the chief salesman for Pola- ings to the nonacademic world excellence in teaching, he also received the American Economics Association's mer's Jams and Jellies in New Jersey, Alberta D. Shackelton Scholarship and I eslic Herzog is a lood scientist for Fund Established by Horace Shackelton Thomas B. Bush Memorial Scholar annual award in 1971 He is the author of approximately 200 articles and the Thomas .1 I iplon Co. in Engle in honor of his late wile. Alberta, the ship fhe fund was established by several textbooks, including Food wood. N.J Leslie Herzog's contribu scholarship will be available to students Walter M and Flaine C Bush in Marketing, which remains an important tions to lhe fellowship are being majoring in nutrition-related fields memory ol then son. Thomas B Bush agricultural marketing reference book matched by the Lipton Co Alberta Shackelton was a nutrition "76 At the time of his death in 1981. he In addition to his lively lectures. Darrah major! 70. M.S. 77) in the College ol was an editor lor a film company in was noted for his counseling ability and Roberta Petruzzi Memorial Scholarship Home Economics at Cornell. She was < ahlorma He received his master's accessibility to students He recently Fund I his was established by Guido the author of Practical Nurse Nutrition degree in cinematography in 1980 from returned to Ithaca from the Philippines, and Guiliana Petruzzi and friends in Education (1979) and Fundamental the University ol Southern California where he had spent the last 10 years, memory of their daughter Roberta Nutrition & INeteth s: A M orkbook lhe scholarship will be awarded lo two with the University of the Philip Petruzzi. who was a communication arts (1941. 1943). students with financial need, with pref pines at l os Banos jind the remainder major, died in a plane crash in erence given to students majoring in with the Ministry ol Agriculture lhe Colombia. South America, in 1983 communication arts fund was initiated by Wendell G. Earle, shortly after completing her Itvshman professor emeritus ol agricultural year Having attended school in several lawrence B. Darrah Scholarship Fund economics countries while growing up, and fluent A piolcssor of agricultural economics in four languages. Roberta Petruzzi Irom 1946 lo 1974. fjtwrence Darrah — c "J O' — $ <> s X £ « H b M O O t4 kA J4 ?£ 7 k be 4* kA •c ! o »4 SS oc I C s S8 y> b ? 'Ji u> F O T a. c s Scientists Unravel a Tangled Web of Spiders’ Secrets Thl* article fin! appeared m I hi Ithaca authority on venomous animals He put Journal anti u reprinted with permn- the two in touch MOll Spider web research is only one small lhe intricate and irresistible webs area ol inquiry lor the two scientists spun by orb spiders have long scented Eisner's specialty is the chemical like woven wonders lo humankind I wo language of insects, including courtship (. orncll researchers hate helped show and defense habits Nowicki's specialty that they are woven warnings as well. is bird vocalization how birds physi I or tears, biologists hate pondered cally produce sound and how they use lhe function ol the conspicuous white signals to communicate with others in patches ol libers al the centers ol the flock. "I guess communication is the spider webs, called stabilimcnta. Proles- common thread throughout our sor ol neurobiology and behavior research." I isner and Nowicki say I homas I isner and graduate student Often working in the Archbold Stephen Nowicki believe they have Biological Station, in a disappearing solved the puzzle. habitat of I lorida scrubland. Eisner and I he siahilimcnta arc warning signs, Nowicki have singled out many fasci they say. lor the birds and mammals nating insects l.isner describes a that might blunder into the web and stinkbug that wards off spiders by destroy it spraying them with a chemical When I he idea first occurred to Eisner alter the spider moves oil. the bug salivates casual observation on Harm Colorado Xpufcvnrb ««/»■> art pan .Z lhe men rrvanli bnmi done hi tra.4«i'< male’ll Stephen \aanki. teh and trees itself from the web that has and Prat'. Thneaoi t.iam h.ah in ihe vokwi id netieiJnidinp and hr lannif Island. Panama, and Islamorado Key. entrapped him and escapes I londa He noticed that birds about io Moths, reports Eisner, tend not to collide with a spider web would seem to oriented animals such as birds, which stick to webs because ol tlic detachable stop in midair then Uy around or might otherwise tear through lire webs scales that cover their wings and body above the web. in flight I hey bounce oil Alter a warm night "What is most obvious lo us.- says I o lest the theory. lhe biologists used when moths abound. Eisner says you I oner, "is that the markings arc 30 webs wnhoui stabilimcnta as the can see the scars left by them in webs obvious lo us " While most insects control group and 30 comparable webs I here's another type of moth, that if would not be deterred Irom Hying into specially adorned by the scientists with caught in a web. will not Hutter. It the web. larger animals would be artificial stabilimcnta. made ol paper closes its wings and wails lor the spider warned in lime. strips to free it The moth is lull ol a toxin Another clue was that stabilimcnta Aller a period ol time liad elapsed. that it has acquired by feeding on a ale produced by spiders ol the two 60 percent ol the webs with the mark poisonous plant when it was a cater ings sunned collisions with birds, while uwjvh families ol orb weavers. pillar The spider is only loo glad to ' Ar.ineidae fllW I tonormnf.'lMrt onlv bv only K percent ot the unmarked control release such an inedible captive. species that Chickens lay as many eggs with 10 two hours in the middle of the night, hours of "daylight "daily as they do breaking up the dark period with lhe 16 to 17 hours of light they Describing the system as "skeleton photoperiod." van Tienhovcn says that normally get. Based on this finding by Cornell interrupting lhe dark period at the right researchers, a lighting program is ready lime triggers egg prixluction for adoption by poultry farmers to Precisely how the light spurs the reduce energy costs, reports Ari van chicken to lay more eggs still remains a Iienhoven. one of it developers. Van scientific puzzle. According to van I ien I ienhoven is a professor of physiology hoven. light somehow stimulates the When it comes to egg production. the hypothalamus, located at the base pl the chicken is an extraordinary bird The chicken's brain I he hy pothalamus modern hen lays an average of 250 to signals lhe pituitary gland to produce 270 eggs a year a feat no other bird and release various hormones I hese except certain breeds of ducks can rival hormones, in turn, influence other Evolved over the centuries from a organs such as the thyroid, adrenals, jungle fowl, chickens were not produc and ovaries, all of which affect egg tive until several decades ago when production, egg size, feed efficiency, and scientists learned that the length of growth, among other Ide processes daylight played a critical role in egg Following the discovery in the 1970s production. that hens did just as well with 10 hours If left to nature’s own devices, of illumination, the Cornell researchers chickens would lay well in summer but tested their method under large-scale poorly in winter. In commercial produc commercial conditions ho/ hank Iju extracts elhitrne *o< Irom random templet .»/ freihli hartened applet Io see whether Results from a threc-year study just ihn are at lhecighi tlage of mol urni for storage. The ethtlenr will be inieaed into lhe gas tion. this problem has been solved by chromatograph machine at rear. tthtch will give a reading indicating the amount o! ethtlene present mimicking long summer days in winter completed al Cornell and a similar test through artificial illumination conducted by Agway. Inc. at its I hcre's good news for apple lovers levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide arc About 285 million birds are main research facility in Fabius. NY. showed who are disappointed when oul-of- carefully controlled tained annually for egg production in that the 10-hour program is practical scason McIntosh lose their crunch. Liu began researching McIntosh the United States. Most of these birds for commercial use Trank I . W Liu. associate professor of breakdown in 1974. After a scries of are housed in windowless structures that Based on these results. Dams I pomology, has discovered how to keep experiments, he found that harvesting arc lit for 14 to 17 hours a day. In Cunningham, assistant professor of "Macs" fresh and firm from September the apples before they ripen and contrast, the Cornell method calls for 8 poultry science. says that the Cornell through May preventing ethylene accumulation in hours of light, followed by 10 hours of method is now ready for use by poultry The research breakthrough is an storage rooms are essential steps in dark, two hours of light, and lour hours operators throughout the United Slates invaluable contribution to the apple maintaining freshness of dark in a 24-hour cycle If all commercial egg operations in industry, which grosses almost $104 “Timing ol the harvest is critical, "I his lighting program can be set into the country switched to the KJ-hour million4»r urewv-n. in New York Slate. bccuuhc there is only a 10- day period motion al any rime of rhe day to suit system, energy savings could amount to "* -ecoiwi-ianktns apple atatu in o>c when the apples can be harvested (or lhe larincr’s daily work schedule." van more than 106 million kilowatt-hours ol nation McIntosh, an important variety optimal result*.* he says. Tienhovcn says. "Obviously, it's an electricity annually In New York State throughout the Northeast, represents 26 I iu's technique to prevent ethylene energy saver." the savings could he about 2.8 million percent of New York's apple crop. buildup involves purifying the air with T he lighting procedure was worked kilowatt-hours I "We can keep Macs crisp and firm potassium permanganate, a simple out in a series of experiments by van "This isnt a huge savings m terms of with no change in sugar by harvesting chemical that absorbs the gas In most Tienhovcn and Charles F. Ostrander, the national total energy use. hut it's a them when they are mature but not yet CA storage, lhe ethylene accumulation professor emeritus of poultry science, ripe, and then storing them in a help to farmers trying to make ends is 500 or more parts per million, but in both in the department of poultry and controlled atmosphere (CA) chamber meet in these times ol sluggish low-ethylene storage, researchers keep avian sciences. where most of the ethylene a gas that economy. Cunningham says. tile level to less than I ppm One major difference between the ripening apples release- is removed." Liu's methods have kept the fruit firm Cornell and conventional methods is Liu explains. Fong H. Kim successfully in the laboratory for up to that the poultry house must be lit for Apples kept in low-ethylene, long eight months Fourteen hundred bushels term CA storage arc slightly less acidic from University storage were first made and have a little less aroma than freshly available to local consumers last spring harvested, tree-ripened fruit. “This year, with the help of field Ethylene scrubbing materials would specialists from Cornell Cooperative Electronic Devices Identify Cows, cost growers less than 25 cents a bushel, Extension, we arc working with a group which would be insignificant in the price of growers who arc adopting our Monitor Milk Yields of apples. Liu says. methods. Liu notes "Next spring, crisp Vear-round fresh apples have been McIntosh apples should be available to Knowing exactly how much milk available to consumers for many years, that is attached to the cow 's neck chain some consumers outside the Ithaca each cow is producing daily is the key thanks u> CA storage wjicrc apples are area." to better management on dairy farms, weighing only a few ounces, it is "put to sleep" in airtight rooms in which Susan S lang but such monitoring especially in large programmed wnh the animal s identifi herds has been virtually impossible cation code. "Il works well for both small and Now researchers have developed elec large operations." Scott says. "Up lo tronic devices lhat can accomplish this with relative case and economy. 3.000 cows can he- identified with the Jested successfully since the fall of current experimental transponder " Dairy Farm Management 1982. the "pulsed transponder" and As cows move smgle file into the "weight transducer" arc ready for mdkmg parlor, the gadget is actuated and sends srgnals to a nearby receiver, Program Begun This Fall commercialization. I hey were developed by a team of which in turn relays the cow- researchers led by Prof. Norman R putcr,rKa,,On numbcri a "’tcrocom- Scott, chairman of the department of agnciiltural engineering Nick A Ehe transducer, which measures milk I o give undergraduate students prac Students meet w ith representatives of Sigrunis. a graduate student, was output, also is linked lo the computer. tical experience, the Dairy I arm marketing cooperatives to become more '^ records are then made available on a instrumental in the design of the trans Management Fellows' Program was familiar with the organizations' func ponder. printout started this fall by the animal science tions and witli officials of the state's By precisely monitoring milk yields a " I here is no need for the farmer lo department. Department of Agriculture and larmcr can remove low-producing mtcract wuh th.s system." Scm! notes Five progressive dairy (aims arc used Markets. animals Irom herds or Iced less expen ' Ls do,K' automatically " as case studies, and faculty members They also tour various research facili sive grain to them. Scott points out In All the necessary electronic eompo- from animal science, agricultural engi ties for discussions with scientists about addition, if a cow 's milk production (or the transponder com neering. and veterinary medicine give how specific research areas arc chosen suddenly declines, the farmer would be X u2 55 Jnd 'herelore lectures on site After the visits, students should be affordable to most farmers, David M. Gallon, assistant professor alerted early to a potential health present their analyses of the farms'effi ol animal science, is the program's problem. bcott says. ciency to the owners and to professors director. I he cow identification device, the in seminars Tong H Kim transponder, is an electronic "dog tag" Warning ‘Signals’ May Students Carry Out Replace Expiration Dates Sophisticated Genetics on Food Research at Lab Supermarket shelves soon may bear for pasteurized milk because it deterio thousands of color -coded signals. similar rates easily when not stored properly Its to tiny traffic lights, if the food industry life-span at different temperatures and adopts a new method for communi the sensitivity of the monitors to those cating freshness temperatures were determined Two Cornell researchers have tested They found that pasteurized milk commercially produced time tempera remained acceptable for 10 days at ture monitors that change color as 40° I (4 4°C) and four days if stored at perishable products age or arc exposed 50'F (IO°C). lhe quality monitors to unsatisfactory temperatures. I hcse accurately illustrated the milk’s deterio chameleonlikc monitors may replace ration "sell-by” dates stamped on packages "Although milk is of very high quality lest results with nulk arc promising, when it leaves the farm, consumers have and lood scientists say such indicators no assurance of proper handling before are practical lor dairy products and it reaches their home." Kosikowski says. have potential ior meat. fish, frozen “Milk sometimes may be kept in a foods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, film, warm truck, or perhaps is not cooled and even human blood adequately in a supermarket. or is left Developed about a decade ago by too long on a kitchen table." commercial firms for other purposes, Although the time-temperature moni these Band-Aid sized indicators contain tors that would be used on milk now an enzyme and a chemical substrate cost up to 15 cents each, manufacturers separated by a thin seal When a arc trying to reduce the cost to about a product is packaged, the seal is auto penny. plants, fundamental genetic differences matically broken, activating the enzyme. 1 hcse indicators could be substantial Cornell's Laboratory for Ecological can be identified The technique is useful As the combined effects of time and money savers. Kosikowski points out. and Evolutionary Genetics (CLEEG). in answering such questions as what the temperature accumulate, a reaction, "If retailers, for example, noticed the started in 1981. provides undergraduate evolutionary relationships arc among preset for specific environmental condi indicator window turning yellow, they and graduate students with instruction particular groups of organisms, the tions. leads to a pH-induced color could return the milk to the supplier, and specialized equipment necessary for carrying out electrophoretic research amounts of inbreeding in endangered change who would ascertain its quality and. if species, and whether disease-resistant The monitor begins at green, indi acceptable, use it in other products that Electrophoresis a process whereby cating freshness; changes to yellow, receive a higher heat treatment than proteins are separated in an electric genes of certain crops can be marked and then incorporated into commercially signaling that conditions arc favorable pasteurized fluid milk." field has become an important tool in biological research during the past important varieties. ior spoilage; and changes to red. indi • — Susan S. Lang cating spoilage, hood science professor decade. In one project, the genetics of the l-rank V. Kosikowski and graduate By looking at protein differences in gray tree frog (Hvla versicolor) is being student Vikram Mislry tested indicators and among individual animals and studied by Ellen Marsden, a graduate student in the section of ecology and systematics. This frog is distinctive in '(( inuimtril fruttt pt>*r I) having become isolated from its parent ancc by parasites of the body's immune with Rollins A. Emerson, a professor of lectual excitement, might be missed as a species through an evolutionary event defenses, and in a range of evolutionary plant breeding for whom Emerson Hall result. "We need now to have a lot of known as polyploidy, in which the processes. is named. Three of his other students. naturalists, people who know organisms normal number of chromosomes is Despite the fact that the full meaning Charles R Burnham. George W Because organisms can do fantastic doubled All individuals in the species ol her discovery took a long time to Beadle also a Nobel Prize winner things " therefore have a duplicate set of genetic become appreciated. McClintock "has and Marcus M Rhoades, would also go In alluding to the increasing abstrac material In this state, nonlcthal muta been a leader in genetics all her life." on to become famous geneticists. tion in biological research. McClintock tions can occur, leading to rapid evolu notes Prof William D Pardee, chair Although she taught and did research was contrasting it to her own expe tionary change man of the plant breeding and biometry at various institutions, including Cornell. rience. She personally earned out every Polyploidy occurs frequently in plants department at Cornell. Pardee helped McClintock was considered too much of step of her research, starting with the but is rare among animals, occurring organize a symposium on corn genetics a maverick lor academic life When she planting of the corn in plots to pains only in amphibians and fish The gray in the summer of 1982. at which found herself out of a job in 1941. she takingly studying individual kernels to tree frog is a particularly good subject McClintock gave the keynote address on received encouragement from her former trace their genetic pathways Describing for studying this process because it the potential of plant genetics. fellow student Marcus Rhoades, who to unauthorized biographer Evelyn Fox underwent polyploidization "recently” McClintock was chosen as an was then at Columbia University He Keller how such total immersion in an half a million years ago and therefore Andrew I) White Prolessor-at-largc in helped her win a research position at the organism feels. McClintock referred to exhibits the early and more identifiable 1965. when the practice of lhe six-ycar Carnegie Institution's department of the "real affection" one gets for the stages of evolutionary change appointments ol nonresident professors genetics, located at Cold Spring pieces that "go together " She added. Marsden is exploring the extent to was revived Asked lo serve longer, she Harbor. The laboratory has since "As you look at these things, they which the frogs have undergone genetic, visited the campus annually for nine become an autonomous institution become part of you " physiological, and behavioral changes years to lecture and serve as a consul involved in basic biological research. The momentum of public acclaim has since the polyploid event, by comparing tant McClintock continues her work al the brought McClintock many honors, the frogs with their parent species, She is the third Cornell graduate to lab seven days a week, arriving early in including the Lasker Award the most Hv/a chrrsosce/is. win a Nobel in the last five years l he the morning and staying often until 8; 30 prestigious American prize for medical A broader issue that interests her is others are 1954 graduates Sheldon p m. and lives in an apartment on the research the l ewis S. Roscnsticl why this genetic event doesn't happen Slashow and Steven Weinberg, who grounds Award, and the Wolf Prize in medicine more often, and especially why it never shared the physics prize in 1979 After she heard she had received lhe In 1981. she was chosen by the Mac- occurs in higher animals One In addition. Cornell professors Nobel Prize. McClintock, donned in Arthur Foundation to be its first Prize hypothesis is that polyploidy is limited Kenneth G. Wilson received a Nobel for dungarees, went out to gather walnuts Fellow Laureate, which provides her a tax to fish and amphibians because their physics in 1982 and Roald Hoffmann along a wooded path near her home. free annual income of $60,000 for life eggs are laid externally and. as a result, Confessing once that she finds are vulnerable to sudden extremes of for chemistry in 1981. When she returned, she issued a David 1 Call, dean of the College of statement that said. “The prize is such "applause crushing." McClintock resists temperature, as can happen in shallow Agriculture and l ife Sciences, said. “We an extraordinary honor It might seem the attentions of fame. Television waters. Such changes could cause muta at the college, and the entire Cornell unfair, however, to reward a person for cameras peering into her lab in the hail tions. in fact, laboratory simulations of community, are tremendously proud of having so much pleasure over the years, of publicity surrounding lhe prize did rapid temperature changes have induced Dr McClintock She is one ol this asking the maize plant to solve specific not come away with much footage An genetic alterations, such as polyploidy, century's foremost geneticists, and her problems and then watching its unruffled but determined McClintock in fish and amphibian eggs. rionccring work is certain to have broad responses “ pulled down the blinds so that she Some other organisms on which elec could get back to work trophoretic research is currently being applications for years to come." During a news conference later that Barbara McClintock was born June day. she was asked what advice she had conducted by students at CLEEG 16. 1902 in Hartford. Conn . and grew tor young people starting out in science include birds, catfish, blackflics, honey up in Brooklyn, where she attended McClintock replied that she thought it bees. spiders, squash, and butterflies A free pamphlet describing graduate Erasmus Hall High School. As an was "a very difficult time" for young undergraduate at Cornell, she majored scientists, because modern approaches student projects at CLEEG is available in botany and thin for her doctoral do not sufficiently emphasize knowing a by writing to Bernard P May. Section work concentrated in plant genetics plant or animal exhaustively The impli of Ecology and Systematics. Cornell She carried out her graduate studies cation is that dues, not lo mention Intel- University. Ithaca. NY 14853. 10 Moth Lures its Timing of Meals Research Looks at How Bacteria Mate with ’Queen of and Exercise Adapt to New Environments Aromas' Important in Weight Loss Without bacteria, the earth would be Methyl jasmonate. the "queen of The adage. "Eat breaklast like a king, buried in a sea of undecomposcd aromas.” is important not only in lunch like a prince, and dinner like a wastes In their 3 5 billion-year exis perfumes, but as a sex attractant to pauper” has been given credence by a tence. these simple, one-ceiled organisms insects Cornell nutrition study hast had to adapt to continually Scientists at Corneils New York State Concentrating meals during the most changing environments to carry out Agricultural 1 xpenment Station have active times of the day enables calorics their tasks for the past lour years been researching to be spent at a higher rate than during l ittle is known about how they the alluring scent produced by the male the lethargic evening hours, found mutate in order to gain the metabolic Oriental fruit moth al mating time This David A Levitsky, professor of nutri pathways that allow them to use new moth is a damaging insect to fruits, tion and psychology. and graduate substrates, or growth substances Robert particularly apples student Fva Oharzanek P Monlock, chairman ol the microbi Working on the project were Wendell Nutritionists and frustrated dieters ology department, is one of approxi I Roelots, professor of biochemistry in have long observed how some people mately 10 people in the world studying the department ol entomology. and are able to stuff themselves without this issue. Terry E Acree, professor of biochem becoming overweight More than eight Because of the rapid reproduction of istry in the department ot food science decades ago. researchers proposed the bacteria and their potentially large and technology. both at the experiment still controversial idea that overeating numbers 10 billion per milliliter, station at Geneva, and Ritsuo Nishida may in some cases trigger a speedup in roughly one-quarter teaspoon under of Kyoto University in Japan metabolism. The Cornell study confirms laboratory conditions, numerous muta Originally, they wanted to learn more this, and supplies the missing informa tions can be observed by researchers If the mechanisms of these mutations about the method used by the fruit tion that it is when overeating is To induct mutations, the organisms could be understood and predicted, it moth to lure its mate Many female combined with exercise soon afterwards are placed in a novel substance and then might be possible to produce bactena insects attract males by emitting an that calorie burnoff is accelerated are "challenged" to use it. The mutant that could degrade toxic wastes, for odorous substance from the tip of their For the study. Levitsky and Obar- bacteria, those that have been able to example, or to modify those that have abdomens, which is also true of the zanck used lean college students as alter their genes and enzy me activities become antibiotic resistant. female Oriental fruit moth But the male volunteers The major variation in the successfully to thrive on the new fare, The research is funded by the fruit moth departs from traditional experiment took place in the 24 hours are then studied to see how they differ National Institute of Allergy and Infec courtship behavior by producing sex preceding the testing One time the from the original strain. tious Diseases. attractants of its own. students lasted, another time they ate After being attracted to the female, three normal meals, and in the final the male stops near his potential mate, round they gorged turns his back on her. vibrates his wings Energy consumption indicated by Goodrich Receives 1983 vigorously, and rhythmically everts and the rate of thermogencsiv or production retracts a special pair of organs al the I of heat was measured m the students up of hr. abdomen called “hairpcnciK" I white they walked on a treadmill 45 "Professor of Merit Award” or "scent brushes " These hairpcncils I minutes alter calms • vspical ISO-caloric emit an aromatic compound that the 1 meal, al rest following a mcaf. and Dana G. Goodrich, professor of female find* irmiMiblc ""•'kom* »r» Ow Ueparmten' / dunnf exercise on an empts stomach lural economics, received the 1983 The male attractant includes the The volunteers exercised moderately "Professor of Mcnt Award." compounds methyl jasmonate found during the treadmill test, walking for 20 also in jasmine and pumpkin seeds The award is presented annually by minutes at three miles per hour and methyl cpijasmonaie Ho-Nun-De-Kah. the agricultural (alone burnoff increased about 10 to Lemons, the scientists discovered, honorary society. on behalf of the senior 15 percent during exercise that was class. have the same scent as the moth hair- performed alter eating a meal I his pencils and also contain methyl epijas- A member of the Cornell faculty since occurred whether the subjects had eaten I95K. Goodrich teaches introductory monate normally the day before or lasted marketing and marketing management After preparing all isomers * hen the students had substantially Courses and is responsible for marketing (substances with the same molecular overeaten the day before, however, the research in horticulture and fish formula) of these two methyl number of calorics burned oil during He received a B S. degree 11954) compounds, the researchers showed that exercise nearly doubled from Rutgers i'niversity and M S all odor activity is found in only one " Ihts accounts for how the bods ndv 11956) and Ph D (1958) degrees from isomer ol methyl cpijasmonate the Uscll of some caloncs consumed when Cornell same odor-active component in lemons I his isomer has 10.000 times the aroma you overeat.” 1 evhsky notes "And „ of the other three Methyl jasmonate i, underscores how important exercise is to anv weight-loss diet Withoutexcrc.sc essentially odorless except lor the 3 these calories d.,n> have any wav to ’ percent impurity o| the fragrant epijas- hum up * monate He adds. "Dieting alone won’t work ” Gardening with Herbs I he findings help entomologists i cvitsky and Obarzanck next plan to understand the chemical commumvauon of insects and will prosaic shortcuts to investigate specUnally how the body \ alued since ancient times for their alters its metabolic rate to purge tl| the perfume industry in producing a culinary, medicinal, and ornamental excess calones I hey will he running the uses, herbs have enjoyed a revival with more potent veraon of the mloxKat.ng aroma eating and exercise tests on obese the upsurge of interest in natural loods subjects to see if the same patterns <4 and remedies. -Rosine E Krauss energy expenditure lound in the lean I he publication Gardening n uh students hold true Herbs presents basic cultural and drying information on 63 of the most popular herbs Many varieties, such as lemon verbena, rosemary, and parsley, can be John Seeley Receives grown successfully as pot plants. Accompanied by photographs, the descriptions of the herbs include their Edgerton Teaching Award reported uses as remedies for common ailments, such as angelica tea for colds John G Seeley , professor emeritus of and indigestion, marjoram as a lina- lloricultural science, received the 1983 advancement ol horticultural science ment. and summer savory to relieve bee Edgerton Career leaching Xward. pre and the industry stings ISscnl? *a ,acu"> mcmbcr •• sented at the alumni reunion breaklast National sources of seeds and plants, Recipients ol the award arc chosen bv Using techniques of molecular Explaining the C ornell procedure. biology. Cornell scientists have John K l.oosli. a retired professor of Zattlin says that the method is an adap to new procedures for determining the improved the procedure for detection of animal science, is the recipient of the tation of the technique called "dot-blot" nutritional value of feedstuffs viroids. the smallest known agents of 1983 Award of Honor, the highest hybridization He won a similar award in 1967 from infectious disease in plants. award of the American Dairy Science One of the key steps required in this the American Dairy Science Associa Viroids affect a variety of crops, Association. procedure is nuking complementary tion. in 1968. with another scientist, he including potatoes, cucumbers, hops, l.oosli. who served for one term as copies of viroids using an enzyme shared the Hoblitzclle National Award, president of the association, retired in avocados, and citrus fruits They also isolated from certain anmul viruses one of the most prestigious awards of 1974 after 36 years with the department arc capable ol killing huge coconut lhese copies arc labeled with radioactive agriculture. of animal science Since his retirement, palm trees No cure has yet been found phosphorous for use as a probe to L Dale Van Vlcck was honored with Much more sensitive than existing he has been associated with the Univer the 1983 J L. Lush Award from the pinpoint the viroid in u sample that is sity of Florida screening methods, the Cornell proce bound on a special type of membrane American Dairy Science Association for Known internationally for his exper his research contributions in animal dure will be invaluable to the nation's paper lest samples can be taken from potato industry in the drive to eliminate tise as an animal nutritionist, l.oosli breeding and genetics The award is suspected tubers, leaves, or seeds. previously won several national honors, viroid-infcctcd breeding and seed stocks If the samples contain viroids. the sponsored by the American Breeders' including the American I ced Manufac Service lhe viroid is the cause of the potato probe will bind to them and this reac turers s Association Award (1950). lhe Van Vlcck. a faculty member at spindle tuber disease, so named because tion shows up as a dark spot on an Borden Award in Dairy Production Cornell since 1962. is known nationally infected plants often produce small, x-ray film. Zaitlm notes (1951). and the Morrison Award for his expertise in animal genetics and cracked tubers shaped like spindles "With our method, it takes only three (1958). its application in evaluating dairy cattle. The C ornell procedure is a modified to five days to determine whether a Peter .1 Van Soest received the 1983 His work has led to many changes in and improved version of a technique sample has the potato spindle tuber American Feed Manufacturers' Associa dairy cattle selection methods adapted earlier by USDA scientists It viroid." he explains "l he test is as tion Award from the American Society Previously, his research accomplish was developed by Milton Zaitlm. a much as 1.000 times more sensitive than of Animal Science for his research ments were recognized by two presti virologist and professor of plant some other methods in use " Once iden accomplishments in the field of animal gious national honors the 1972 pathology, and Peter Palukaitis. a tified. the infected specimens are nutrition. Animal Breeding and Genetics Award research associate in plant pathology removed from the seed pool. A faculty member al Cornell since from the American Society of Animal Already in use at Cornell for viroid Based on results obtained thus far. 1968. Van Soest has an international Science and the 1974 National Associa detection in potatoes used for breeding the researchers feel confident that their reputation for pioneering work that led tion of Animal Breeders Research and foundation-seed production, the method can be used to detect viroids Award method will be employed to screen affecting other food and ornamental samples from 10.000 lots of "true" crops. potato seed produced by the U. S. — )'ong if Kim Department of Agriculture for breeding purposes, lhe USDA will fund the program. Two Receive Senior Service Award Sue E Merrill of Silver Springs, and branch of Future Farmers of America. Technical College at Cobleskill At Cynthia J Peck of Schuylerville, She also tutored high school students in Cornell, she was active in the dairy received the Outstanding Senior Service math and English through CIVITAS at science club and helped plan the first Award of lhe ALS Alumni Association Cornell, was vice-president of the Cornell Classic livestock sale She I he award, presented each year al the Triphammer Womens Cooperative, and chaired the transfer committee of Ag Senior Barbecue, is determined by a helped screen applicants in the transfer Ambassadors, a student organization committee of students, faculty, and center at Cornell A dean's list student assisting the college's admissions office alumni while at Cornell. Merrill was a transfer Peck also initiated a dairy club in Merrill, an agricultural education student from the State University of Tompkins County, tutored a learning- major at Cornell, was active in the New York (SUNY) Agricultural and disabled student al Dryden High student organization AgPAC. the Technical College at Alfred School, and was a member of Alpha Sum SlemUtlrlDmlCruhH Fnl nrnir college's admissions committee, the Peck, an animal science major, trans Zeta. wniur irnrre m ankfrom GnuV J. Conneman alumni association, and the collegiate ferred from the SUNY Agricultural and Junior of mirurtton •> the , Kenneth Turk Honored with Distinguished Award Kenneth I Turk, the first director of I urk retired from the College of International Agriculture Programs al Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1974 < ornell. has been honored by the Asso after four decades here, first as a ciation of U.S University Directors of student, then as a teacher, researcher, International Agricultural Programs and administrator A professor emeritus (AUSUDIAP) with us first award for of animal science, he was head of the distinguished service animal science department at Cornell A founder and former president of from 1945 to 1963. and director of AUSUDIAP in the mid 1960s. lurk International Agriculture Programs continues to be active in the organiza from 1963 to 1974 He is the author of tion which encourages development of three books on agricultural production scientific and educational programs in underdeveloped countries and of more than 370 articles Jmm If feereua Xi tell wmn an murj/<» a meanh paper front H dltuni I hntmnmir directed at modernization of world agri VKatwr /vu arm of lhe Furl Stair UirmWi Pir /taper Hut a batifromJ hnefmn foe « propenej culture Membership provides liaison on A native ol Mt. Vernon. Mo . J urk hill to allow tottirru* mto .ourir.amt mJ*. Middle-Aged Farmers Are Most New Cheese Process Efficient, Study Finds Lowers Sodium, Retains Taste When it comes to efficiency, young Their energy use. he adds, reflects their farmers ma) have the latest equipment A membrane-separation technology use of new. energy-conserving equip developed by Cornell lood scientists has protein, and insoluble salts that arc and more technical training, but middle- ment. aged farmers make up for that in expe produced a reduced sodium cheese lhat major components of the cheese remain Young farmers in the national sample and become more concentrated. rience and resources. retains flavor and good body also rated highest for grass crop yields, However, lactose a major component In general, farmers between 35 and "By supplementing cheese milk with a but were lowest in livestock production, of cheese milk docs not concentrate. 44 year* old arc more efficient than probably because it is generally more concentrate ol protein, fat. and insoluble farmers younger than 25 and those salts retained from ultrafiltcrcd whok l he result, known as the rctentate is difficult to raise animals than crops. older than 55. according to studies by milk, we've produced a lower sodium a selectively concentrated liquid with “In general, the youngest farmers are Loren W Tauer, an assistant professor Cheddar cheese of excellent quality “ live limes more fat and protein than the least efficient because they tend to of agricultural economics. says Frank V. Kosikowski. professor ol ordinary milk. When it is added to have too much machinery relative to cheese milk in a certain proportion He based his conclusions on an exam lood science land ownership." Tauer notes there IS almost twice as much lat and ination ol the 1978 Census of Agricul Although Cornell's work has been In the New York data set. Tauer protein than normal. ture and information about 340 farmers with chcddar cheese. Kosikowski found that the average number of cows Adding the fat- and protein-rich Irom Cornell's New York State Farm considers the technology applicable to per farm rises to 74 at age 50 and then Business Summary hundreds of ripened cheeses, including rctentate to the cheese milk produces falls to 63 for farmers 65 years old Middle-aged farmers were most effi Swiss. Italian, bnck. blue, and mozza more cheese, yet the end product does Another finding was that older rella. not have a greater amount ol tat or cient in crop production and use of farmers continue to make substantial machinery, according to Tauer. Farmers In addition to creating a tasty protein than it does normally machinery purchases even as they product, the process increases the effi Cornell's experimental Cheddar cheese younger than 25. on the other hand, approach retirement Also, surprisingly, ciency and economy ol cheese making is only about I percent sodium chloride were most effective when it came to those who do not have children plan by almost doubling the yield from the (sail), compared w.th the average ol 1.8 hired labor and return on energy expen ning to take over the farm continue to ditures. cheese-milk mixture. Percent in commercial cheeses. That's an manage and maintain their farms as well "Salt is an important ingredient ol average of about 423 milligrams 100 “Ihat's probably because young, as those who do have children preparing inexperienced Farmers benefit the most cheese because it favorably influences grams, instead of the 700 mg 100 to succeed them. grams in standard chcvsc by renting equipment and using hired, flavor, color, and moisture, and T his places the cheese in a proposed experienced labor." laucr points out —Susan S. Lang prevents the growth ol microbes that can spoil cheese." Kosikowski points class of loods being considered by the out ' ' .’d and ITrug Administration In lhe ultrafiltration process, whole called "intermediate sodium foods " a milk is passed through a molecular sieve designation to help consumers select that separates its components Water, products with lower sodium content. 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