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Volume 48, Number 5 October 15, 1945 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second-class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published the first and fifteenth of every month. most satisfactory as weed killers. Current Research in Agriculture While the new method cannot be used on many vegetables, it is notably suc- BY CARL E. F. GUTERMAN, PHD '30 cessful on carrots. The oil sprays kill INCE it is the primary function of ered. The land in many of the counties the weeds without injuring the young S the Agricultural Experiment Sta- of the State has thus been classified carrots, thus saving a tremendous tion to find solutions to the scientific according to how good a living a farm- amount of hand labor. problems of New York State farmers, er can make if he depends wholly on Operators of greenhouses have also and since food is basic to the war the farm. With this research informa- been faced with serious labor short- effort, the research program of the tion available, it seems probable that ages. Since a large part of the labor in Station has naturally concerned itself many of the tragic mistakes following the greenhouse is used in watering with the more pressing problems of the last war can be averted. plants, attention has been focussed on agricultural production. Many prob- this problem. Benches have been re- lems involving shortages of labor, Discoveries Save Labor designed and waterproofed, and it is equipment, and materials have been Shortages of labor have again been now possible, with the aid of tensi- acute, and prompt action in their solu- of serious concern to farmers in their ometer gauges and time clocks, to tion has been imperative. By shifting efforts to increase food production. provide for complete automatic water- personnel and facilities, and with a With farm wage rates at a record high ing of greenhouse bench crops. considerable body of facts available level, work-simplification research has A new development of great signifi- from previous research, the Station been most timely in helping to increase cance to Mclntosh apple growers has staff has managed to find answers to labor efficiency. On dairy farms, labor been announced recently. Unless the most of the emergency problems can be saved by arranging stables for fruit of this variety is well-colored, it brought in by farmers during the year. maximum convenience in doing the fails to meet the grade standards, with Along with projects related directly work, by using equipment, such as consequent loss in price to the farmers. to the war effort, some progress has feed carts, to save time and trips, by All too frequently, there are too many been made in research of a more training cows to milk out completely green Mclntosh apples. Research has fundamental and basic character. At- and rapidly, and by planning the chore shown that weather and the nitrogen tention has also been given to postwar routine to avoid back-tracking and level of the trees at harvest time are problems and adjustments. If farmers other unnecessary trips. On poultry the two factors of most importance in are to avoid a postwar jolt similar to farms, wprk accomplishment can be determining Mclntosh quality and that in the years following World War increased by having large pens, com- color. Nothing can be done about the I, it is clearly the task of the experi- bining jobs to save trips, having a (Continued on page 112) ment stations to anticipate the prob- convenient feed supply for each pen, lems and to supply farmers with ac- placing nests near the door through Professor Guterman has been Director curate research results which will which the operator enters the pen, and of Research in the College of Agriculture arranging for an automatic water sup- since that position serve as the basis for making sound was created, July decisions. ply and waste-disposal system that 1, 1942, and is Di- can be used during winter as well as rector of the Uni- Research Projects Listed summer. versity Agricul- In peach production, it is usually tural Experiment Illustrative of the Station's con- Station. He came tributions to the agricultural problems necessary to hand-thin the trees to to Cornell as a of today and tomorrow are the follow- produce commercial-sized fruits and graduate assistant ing examples. A more complete cover- to encourage wood growth for the next in Plant Pathol- ogy in September, age of the research program is con- crop. It requires twenty-five to forty 1925, having re- tained in the annual reports of the man-hours to hand-thin an acre of ceived the BS in State Colleges of Agriculture and mature peach trees, depending on the June at Massa- Home Economics to the Governor size and height of trees and the amount chusetts Agricul- and the Legislature of the State. of fruit set. Recent experiments with tural College. For three years, 1927-30, he held a fellowship Discharged veterans, men still in dinitro chemicals have shown that an for investigating lily diseases, and in 1930 the armed forces, and war workers are acre of trees can be chemically thinned he received the PhD and was appointed becoming increasingly interested in with a bloom spray in about an hour. assistant professor of Plant Pathology. The spray is applied when the trees From 1933-36 he was assistant to the farms and farming opportunities in Dean and Director of Experiment Sta- New York State. Many veterans reach approximately full bloom. tions, and in 1936 was appointed professor bought farms after World War I. Too Another labor-saving discovery of of Plant Pathology and Assistant Director many of the farms purchased were this year has been the use of oil sprays of the University Experiment Station. He is a member of Kappa Sigma, Gamma Al- poor and overpriced and the owners for weed control. First developed in pha, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi. His faced nothing but trouble, debt, and the West, the method has been adapted and Mrs. Guterman's daughter, Phyllis eventual failure. For the last fifteen to the East through research at th§ M. Guterman, is a Junior in Home Eco- years, land-classification studies have Cornell Station. Of the materials nomics. been underway. Such factors as use- tested, kerosene from naphthenic This report will appear as the section on research in the annual report of Dean fulness for agriculture, soil type, cli- crude, certain dry-cleaning fluids from William I. Myers >14 of the College of mate, distance from markets, and con- the same crude oil, and paraffinic kero- Agriculture, which will be published in the dition of buildings have been consid- sene with aromatic solvent seem to be Report of the President for 1944-45. Back Moakley House famous runners he has developed. Be- sides the murals, Quill and Dagger has Day in Detroit IFTS and many letters of com- made a cash gift of $1,000 towards RESIDENT Edmund E.