Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1973 Page: 4 of 10
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PACE 4— LEVELLANDDAILY SUN NEWS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23,197J
New high yield rice ready for general use
BY H.D.W. GREENWAY
MANILA-The
International Rice
Research Institute at
Los Banos, 40 miles
south of Manila, has
announced that a new
variety of high-yield rice
is ready for general use.
The new strain is
genetically more
resistant to tropical
plant diseases than
previous high-yield
strains, and scientists at
Los Banos hope it will
prove more acceptable
to farmers. It is the
result of four years’
experiments.
In the 1960's, the new
hybrid rice varieties
developed at Los Banos
and at other research
centers were heralded
as "miracle rice” —the
answer to tropical
Asia’s food supply in the
face of ever increasing
populations.
There is less talk
about miracles now,
A
Ag&i
Scientists find new way to
'FOIL* INSECTS!!!
After learning that
APHIDS, TINY BUGS
WHICH TRANSMIT
(RUSES TO PLANTS,
DON’T LIKE
RIGHT LIGHTS...
CC
Scientists kept them
out of new jersey
SQUASH FIELDS BY
PUTTING DOWN LIGHT-
REFLECTING STRIPS OF
ALUMINUM FOIL THIS
CUT PLANT DISEASES
UP TO 98% AND
UPPED SQUASH YIELDS
FIVE-FOLD// A
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however, for last year
South and Southeast Asia
suffered disastrous
droughts, and in some
areas floods,that caused
what the Philippine
Republic’s under
Secretary of
Agriculture, Jose 1)
Drilon, called the
worst rice shortage in 3U
years.” Weather is but
one of the problems that
have conspired to
frustrate the high
expectations of the new
Technology.
The scientists at Los
Banos realized several
years ago that
increasing the potential
yield per acre was not
enough. ‘‘In spite of the
high yield potential of
new varieties,” says the
institute’s annual report
for 1972, “only about 15
percent of the rice land
in South and Southeast
Asia is planted to high
yielding varieties. . ..The
institute clearly
recognizes that
susceptibility to disease
and insects is a strong
constraint to further
extension of the new
technology.”
The first step, in the
early 1960 s, was to
shorten the stalk. The
key to increasing the
tropical farmer’s rice
yield was more and
better fertilizer, but it
was no use adding
fertilizer to the long-
stemmed tropical rice
plants because the
fertilizer simply made
trie staiiv’^row lain, i -
increased the likelihood
that the rice plain s would
blow over in the wind
The answer was to
crossb3ree«$iropicdl rice
plants With a lough,
short-stemmed variety
found onuTaiwan The
resulting hybrid, widely
accepted around the
world, had a short stem
and upright leaves to
catch the sunlight. This
strain proved capable of
increasing farmers'
yields 60 to 100-fold
unde Ki: » op t i in u m
conditions! A later
variety was developed to
improve the taste.
But the optimum
conditional that exist on
experimental stations
like Los Banos are
seldom reproduced in
farmers’ fields. The new
high-yield varieties
produce high yields only
when given adequate
water and fertilizer; left
alone with; no special
care, they., perform no
better than traditional
varieties of rice.
But if the new strains
could Jje ijmade more
resistant tu disease and
insects, the scientists at
Los Banos thought,
farmers might find the
initial., > investment a
more attractive risk —
and would not have to
spend so much on
pesticides,
The institute has more
than 25,000 varieties of
traditional rice on
experimental plots, and
approximately 2,500
more are brought in each
year from all over the
world. These are
crossbred and
experimented on in
combination with the
high-yield strains.
With the bulk of die
1973 crop now being
harvested, the worst
rice shortage in 30 years
has now been alleviated,
according to under-
secretary of State
Drilon. The floods and
droughts of 1972 caused
the Philippines a rice
deficit of 700,000 metric
tons of milled rice,
Drilon said. Because of
bad harvests in the rest
of Asia, the Philippines
was able to import only
200,000 tons.
The difference was
made up by encouraging
the rice-eating
Northerners to eat corn
from the South,
increasing credit to
farmers, encouraging
people to grow
vegetables in their back
yards, cracking down on
hoarders and, in some
areas, taking over the
distribution system.
Cotton fibers are dried-up tube*
of cellulose
Ms. W.D. Macon services held
CP
Services for Mrs.
W .D.(Maggie A.) Macon,
85 of 108 Bobby St. was
conducted Friday at 10
a.m.in the George C.
Price Funeral Home
Chapel with Bob
Reynolds, Minister of
the Cactus Drive Church
of Christ officiating,
assisted by Leonard
Dennis of McAdon,
Texas and Leslie
Mickey, minister of the
Austin Street Church of
Christ. Interment was
in the Crosbyton
Cemetery, Crosbyton,
Texas.
Mrs. Macon died at
12:15 a.m. Wednesday in
the Lubbock Osteopathic
Hospital following a
lengthy illness. She was
born January 11, 1888 in
Texas. She moved to
Dickens County in 1924
and she and her husband
farmed in Dickens
County and Crosby
County until his death in
1950. She moved from
Crosby County to
Level land, in 1951.
Survivors include one
son, Quentin Macon of
Lubbock;two daughters,
Mrs. Iva Mae White of
Lubbock, and Mrs. W.T.
Winegar of Levelland;
one brother, Earnest
Patty of Lubbock; and
seven grandchildren and
eleven great-
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were
Royce Macon, Alton
Macon, Kenneth
W inega r, W eldon
Gainer, Austin Simpson,
Carl White, Richard
Winegar and Travis
Winegar.
\
. Your
‘ Horoscope
By Jeane Dixon
SATURDAY. NOV. 24
Your birthday today: The
past is prologue, you begin
the future here and now, and
the way you build that fu-
ture is do the best you can
with each present moment
This year is primarily experi-
mental: you are willing to
try anything once, many
things more than once. To-
day's natives are of two main
specialties: technicians, who
discover hidden meanings in
their work, or extroverts, who
find beauty in athletic
games.
Aries I March 21-Aprtl It):
Once over lightly is enough,
provided you don’t get or
give the impression that the
job is all finished.
Taurus I April 20-May 201:
Nobody wants to concentrate
on anything but fun and
games Aside from a few
essentials, probably you
should do about the same.
Gemini (May 21-June 20]:
Go along with the general
drift of social doings, letting
matters take their natural
course. Visit somebody you
haven't seen in a long time.
Cancer (June 21-July 22]:
Reconcile differences, en-
lighten those who do not yet
know. Enlist support for any
reasonable progra m. Get
busy!
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22]: Life
is fun no matter what level
of income or spending is
achieved Creative projects
are ready to go, have high
priority.
Virgo I Aug. 23-Sepi. 22):
You have an admirer as yet
unknown to you; your work
is the likely point of attrac*
lion Domestic affairs are
favored.
Libra ISept. 23-Oct. 22]:
Pay attention to what people
do rather than what they
say; the discrepancies are.
quite marked and very in-
structive.
Scorpio [Oct. 23-Nev. 21]:
Turn loose of any premature
project or anything that does
not produce adequate income
from a reasonable effort.
Sagittarius I Nov. 22-Dec.
21]: You may be trusted, or
drafted, to do something
about needed changes. Make
sure you do the job promptly
and gracefully.
Capricorn [Dec. 22-Jaa. IS]:
An old cycle has expired, and
you must begin anew with a
slightly different idea, fresh
activities, additional contacts.
Aquarius [Jaa. 2S-Feb. IS]:
Keep trying until you either
get what you want or some
definite information on when
and how much you are to re-
ceive
Pisces [Feb. IS-March 2#]:
Zero in on getting things
straightened out with what-
ever sources or authorities
are appropriate or responsi-
ble.
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Larry Langwell is the new Service Manager at
West Chevrolet, beginning Tuesday.
Langwell said regardless of the make of your
vehicle, West Chevrolet Service Department
will repair it for you. No repair job is too large
or small.
West Chevrolet now features the most modern
front-end alignment and brake machine.
Landwellsaidto watch West Chevrolet’s ads for
Service Departments ‘SPECIALS’ in the weeks
to come. i
C.W. Dennis, Sales Manager, congratulates provide West Chevrolet customers with the type
Larry Lai^well on his promotion from of service they want. ‘The BEST is at WEST
fuitnuw to Service Manager. Langwell is CHEVROLET’
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Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1973, newspaper, November 23, 1973; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1147420/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.