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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1978
Protesters to pack seal s islands
Sit-in planned for seal pup
United Press International
KIRKWALL, Scotland — The
government has refused to call off its
seal slaughter in the Orkney Is
lands, but animal lovers think they
can save the lives of 5,000 pups and
cows with a sit-in on the barren
rocks where the gray seals live.
Bruce Millan, the British gov
ernment’s secretary for Scotland, re
jected a late appeal Wednesday to
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save the creatures because he does
not believe there is a scientific case
for calling off the hunt.
Fishery experts say the gray seals
gobble up $40 million worth of fish
every year, enough to keep three
Scottish fishing ports in business.
The government has approved a cull
of about one-twelfth of the herd of
60,000 seals.
No firm date has been fixed for
the slaughter, however, and the
conservationists still think they can
win.
Millan said he will not risk con
frontation with the protesters and
endanger human life. So the seals’
main champions, members of the
California-based Greenpeace Or
ganization, hope they can prevent
the slaughter by occupying the bar
ren and uninhabited rocky outcrops
off northern Scotland.
“If the sealers are ordered not to
go on any island where there are
protesters, we will pack every one of
them,” said Greenpeace spokesman
Pete Wilkinson. “What will they do
then?
“I honestly believe we can stop
the cull going ahead.”
The government’s hired crew of
Norwegian marksmen have been
ordered to shoot 4,000 seal pups and
1,000 breeding seals.
The hunters say many of the seals
would starve and die anyway be
cause there are no longer enough
fish to feed them all.
Newspaper and television pic
tures of cuddly baby seals with
pleading brown eyes have provoked
a national outcry by animal lovers.
As both sides waited for action, a
tag match continued between the
government’s sharpshooters, cruis
ing the North Sea in their bright red
ketch Kvitungen, and the conser
vationists aboard Rainbow Warrior,
a green trawler with a rainbow
painted on its side.
A caravan of reporters and camera
crews followed the vessels in the
chilly waters.
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aboard the Kvitungen said the fuss
was doing the seals no good at all.
Reporters and conservationists who
landed on the seals’ normally unin
habited islands have frightened off
many cows, who then deserted their
pups to starve and die, he con
tended.
An old familiar face soon to be missed
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TERRELL, Texas — In 1903 an
Iowa researcher on a federal mission
“to promote agriculture in the
South,” thought his ideas could rev
olutionize farming if he only could
persuade Texas farmers to adopt
some of his new techniques.
When Seaman A. Knapp made
his pitch in a crowded community
meeting, Walter C. Porter stood
and volunteered 70 acres of land for
a demonstration plot contingent
upon a guarantee his income would
not be reduced.
When local businessmen agreed
to place $450 in a bank to cover any
loss the Porter family might suffer,
Knapp, a special agent with the
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
initiated the historic project. On
Thursday farm demonstration cele
brated its diamond anniversary in
ceremonies attracting 600 national,
state and foreign leaders.
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On a farm planted to cotton and
corn for 28 years without commer
cial fertilizer and without rotating
crops, Knapp applied his idea that
farmers would adopt new farming
techniques if he could just “demon
strate results they could see with
their own eyes on their own farms. ”
The 70-acre field on the Porter
farm was divided into plots to dem
onstrate use of more intensive til
lage, commercial fertilizer and crop
rotation. Despite boll weevil dam
age to cotton in 1903 being the
worst in 25 years, Knapp was able to
demonstrate good results on Por
ter’s test plot.
On one plot he produced 166
pounds per acre by planting and
farming it the way Porter always had
grown cotton and second plot he
produced 326 pounds per acre with
intensive cultivation, application of
200 pounds of commercial fertilizer
per acre and planting the cotton
with 18 inches between the rows.
On a third plot, he produced 414
pounds per acre using the same cul
tivation techniques but with the
added benefit of growing the cotton
in a field which had been planted to
nitrogen-producing cowpeas the
previous year.
Porter and his neighbors watched
the plot all summer and were per
suaded by the demonstration. As a
result of the increased production
from his 70-acre volunteer plot. Por
ter was paid $700 more than he
normally would have received from
the local cotton gin.
From that beginning on the Por
ter farm, Knapp’s work spread
quickly as private and localsuj
provided funds for 33 “agent
work with farmers in 1904 and
farmers planted “demonstrali|
plots” on their farms so tii
neighbors could see the results
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