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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1956)
77 Pi A' y* cr B> al 1c PAGE 6 Thurs., Aug 1 . 30, 1956 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Cotton Studies Benefit From Grants-in-Aid Research on two important phases of cotton production, defoliation and cotton root rot control, will be aided by re cently made grants-in-aid to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. According to Station Director R. D. Lewis, five gi’ants-in-aid and the renewal of two grants have been made. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Richmond, Virginia, has made available a grant for $1,500 to support studies on cotton defoliation and for the same purpose, the Chemagro Cor poration of New York City has made available a grant of $2,000. The American Cynamid Company of New York City has renewed their grant of $1,000 and the Shell Development Company, Denver, Colorado, has also renewed their grant for the same amount. Both are for the support of studies on cotton defoliation. Research under these grants and renewals is being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Wayne C. Hall of the Depart ment of Plant Physiology and Pathology. Three grants-in-aid have been made to support studies on control ling cotton root rot by chemicals. These were made by Panogen, Inc., Ringwood, Illinois, $300; The Geary Research Laboratory, Blue Point, Long Island, New York, $200 and The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation of New York City, $500. The studies under these grants are being conducted at the Temple Substation with Dr. Ralph Harvey, assistant plant pathologist, direct ing the work. Dr. E. D. Cook, sta tion agronomist, is assisting with the studies being made under the Union Carbide and Carbon grant. Ag Station Receives Two Grants-in-Aid Two grants-in-aid, and ex tension of a grant, a gift and a loan for support of various research studies have been ex tended to the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station dui’ing the past month, according to Di rector R. D. Lewis. A grant for $5,400, which will be used to support studies on the chemistry and utilization of lipides, was made by The Marco Chemical Company, Fort Worth. The re cipient of the grant-in-aid is the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, and Dr. Raymond Reiser of that department will direct the studies. The Butler Chemical Company, Galena Park, has made available a grant-in-aid for $2,000 to support studies on poultry nutrition. The Eli Lilly and Company of Indian apolis Ind., granted an extension valued at $3,550 to be used for studies on diethylstilestrol in poul try feeding. Dr. J. R. Couch, De partment of Poultry Husbandry, will direct the research. A packaging scale valued at $175 was donated by the Exact Weight Scale Company of Columbus, Ohio. The Department of Horticulture will use the scale for packaging frozen food and general weighing. A loan, consisting of 2,500 bar rels of moist rough rice, was made by W. H. Beavers of China, Texas. 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