The_Rambler_1953-02-02

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TME RAMBLER
Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute—Fanningdale, N. Y.
VOL. XXIII. No. 3 February 2, 1953
Institute Sees 34th C. L. P. Program
Operation
Research
This year the senior plant pro-tection
technology majors will
present a program known as "Op-eration
Research," for the annual
Country Life Open House pro-gram.
Each student was given a
choice, at the beginning of the
year, of a project to work on
during his senior year, in the
course of Research Procedures
The following senior men will
exhibit and answer questions on
their research papers.
Nick Chura — exhibit of Micro-organisms
in Massachusetts and
Long Island pond water.
Ronald Baron — The control of
Aquatic weeds.
Louis Falcon — The efl'ects of
anti-biotics on seed germination.
Robert Gioscia — The effects of
benzene hexachloride and lindane
on seed germination.
Robert Kennel and John Millet
— The life cycle of the black wid-ow
spider; how to rear them; and
where they are found.
Harvey Moledzky — The life
cycle of the sap beetle and how to
rear them.
William Munk — The effect of
various chemicals on cut flowers.
Seymour Tublin — The effect of
vitamins on plants.
Dave Springer — The effects ol
anti-biotics on the growth of
stored grain pests.
These exhibits will be found
in the Plant Protection and Biol-ogy
laboratories, upstairs in the
new Poultry Building. "Operation
Research" will be under the cap-able
direction and supervision oi
Dr. Louis Pyenson.
Last years winner of Holstein Grand Championship Award
CATTLE CLUB O. H. CAMPUS
FOOD
MERCHANDISING
This year the club will pre-sent
two exhibits. The Farm
Supplies group have secured the
cooperatioji of the Purina Mills,
world's largest manufacturers
and distributors of feeds, in pre-senting
an exhibit of feeds, spe-cial
equipment, and supplies. A
guessing contest with appropri-ate
prizes, will enliven the af-fair.
The cattle club is busily pre-paring
for Country Life. Many of
the student members have been
seen milling around the cow barn
in search of a likely looking
bovine with which to outer the
Country Life Program beginning
Feb. 19.
Once found, these animals re-quire
much cax'e such as brush-ing,
currying, clipping, and clean-ing
up the horns and tail.
They must be taught to lead,
apparently it is quite a task
from the looks of some of the
fellows that have been dragged
around the yard.
Keep at it fellows (and Hazel
S.^ and may the best man win.
The Food Merchandising group
are preparing comparative dis-plays
illustrating the advantages
of refrigerated cases for fresh
fruits and vegetables; an educa-tional
exhibit of trends and
techniques in pre-packaging is
planned; the Federal State in-spection
Service will cooperate
in setting up informational dis-plays
on the values of inspec-tion
service to the shipper, re-ceiver
and consumer; apples and
potatoes are highlighted in dis-plays
showing grades, packages,
uses, and merchandising meth-ods.
Long Island growers will
With February 19 coming fast,
the Hort. Department, like the
rest of the Institute, is busy mak-ing
plans for its various exhibits
for the Country Life Program.
The floriculture seniors will be
showing floral ai'rangements and
decorations, along with a display
of house plants, and dish gardens.
The landscape seniors are to
show, very appropriately, a land-scape
design of a terrace, with
outdoor fireplace. The plan was
drawn up by Bob Garvin, star
track man of this past season.
Long Island Flowers On Par-ade
is the theme of Dr. Eichman's
display, and it is exactly that. All
the flowers on show will be from
Long Island growers.
Many of these committees are
already hard at woi-k and draw-ing
up their final plans. Even the
P.P.T. section is planning to show
a bit of their initiative and talent,
so be prepared for the usual out-standing
representation of the
Hort. department. But, above all,
don't be surprised by those walk-ing
trees or the very large dents
left in the mall; it's only a few of
the landscape boys at work.
cooperate with the potato show.
A guessing contest will be con-ducted
at the potato exhibit.
Halsey B. Knapp, Director of the
Long Island Agricultural and
Technical Institute, Farmingdale,
New York, a unit of State Uni-versity,
has announced that the
Institute's Annual Country Life
—Open House Program will be
presented this year on February
19, 20 and 21. All exhibits which
make up the Country Life —
Open House Program will be
shown on the Institute's Main
Campus, Meilville Road, Farming-dale.
Over 100 agricultural, orna-mental
horticultural and indus-trial-
technical exhibits and dem-onstrations
are planned. The In-stitute's
new Industrial-Technical
Laboratory Building, the first of
its kind to be constructed in any
unit of State University, will
house all Industrial-Technical
Open House exhibits. The Coun-try
Life-Open House Program
marks the first time this new
laboratory building will be open
to the general public. A new
Poultry Building on the Agricul-tural
Campus will serve as a
center for all poultry husbandry
displays.
Agricultural and ornamental
exhibits of interest to home own-ers
will include displays of grow-ing
and arranging flowers, food
processing for home freezers, mod-ern
food distribution methods,
fruit and vegetable displays,
landscape gardening and house
plants. Farm exhibits include re-cent
developments in agricultural
engineering, dairy industries,
farm management, field crops
and soil conservation.
The 1953 Country Life-Open
House Program will be the thirty-fourth
such event the Long Island
Agricultui-al and Technical Insti-tute
has presented. All residents
of Long Island and Neighboring
communities are invited to attend
this program on February 19, 20
and 21 from 1:00 P.M. to 9:00
P.M. daily.
It's Coming Soon
Get Your
VALENTINE
and attend the
SENIOR DANCE
FEB. 14th