University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, April 16, 1975
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Organic farming not new to area
By GREG BASHAW
By GREG BALKAN
Kansan Staff Reporter
A suggestion of this week's National Conference on Rural America in Washington, D.C., that production of organics foods be increased isn't new to Lawrence.
Several KU students and educators already are involved in organic farming, but they are not well integrated and benefit
Ric Hiveley, Chanute sophmore,
organically farms more than an acre of land in East Lawrence. Hiveley uses organic farming methods and refuse sludge, to grow his vegetable crops.
Hively said Tuesday he thought pesticides and synthesized fertilizers damaged soil and threatened water quality.
"When these chemicals go into the ground
an enter into our food cycle they eventually
can be released."
E. Raymond Hall, professor emeritus of
natural history, believes continued pesticide use on farming land is "possibly the most important source of pollution in America," and has raised a 10.74 acre farm in Miami County.
THE SOIL CAN stand the pesticide strain now, Hall said, but in the future soil will begin to decay and become worthless for crops.
Kemp Houck, associate professor of English, encouraged planting small gardens to "help get a grip on rising food prices by raising your own vegetables."
Houck co-manages an 80-acre farm in leeward County that grows soybeans by
Houck said the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers destroyed the soil's fertility.
"So much soil has been ruined this way that I see it at the greatest natural resource location," she said.
Houck said his farm could produce more if he used synthetic fertilizer but he hoped to gradually increase production by building up soil quality over a number of years.
A. W. KUCHLER, professor of
Zoology and plant biologist could
be effective in the food chain.
"It's physically impossible for a large
organic matter to use organic
methods." Kuchler said.
He said production levels and food exports would decrease if the United States
"We need synthetic fertilizers to help us feed the fest of the world." Kuchler said.
"In the test of the world," Kuchler said. "Organic fertilizers like leaves, kitchen refuge and manure improve soil structure, increase water retention and nutrients to the soil, Kuchler said. He recommended organic fertilizer for home garden use."
Marie Cross, associate professor of human development, said using organic fertilizers could be hazardous if one didn't use proper growing procedures.
"Often parasites from the manure get into the food," Cross said.
CROSS SAID MANY foods were falsely advertised as organic.
"You can have a product that's marked organic food" and "haul it into the lab and find the same traces of pesticides and chemicals you find on regular foods," Cross said.
Organically grown foods usually cost more than regular foods and so restrict what else can be bought on a food budget, Cross said.
"The organically grown foods have not been proven to be more nutritional than other foods," Cross said. "Plants don't know what they are being fed."
Class undertakes fiction newspaper
The need for more student-written fiction at the University of Kansas has sparked the beginning of a new tabloid newspaper, Alan A. Ross, assistant professor of English, said Tuesday.
The eight-page journal of fiction is named "Rendezvous," and if Lichter's Fiction Writing I class meets all the deadlines, it be in circulation late next week, Lichter said.
"We need more fiction on this campus and making it more interesting, making fiction available," he said.
"If we can do something here we should
and not wait three years," said Lichten
He said many students had to wait as long as three years after graduation before any of their stories were published. Young students who published as soon as possible, he said.
He said the production of "Rendezvous" was a class project and was being financed by the National Endowment for Science.
In addition to writing all the original short stories, the class has done all other work.
including layouts and illustrations that will accompany each story, he said.
Lichter said the project had added a new dimension to the class because students would get a chance to see some of their efforts rewarded in print.
About 1,000 copies have been ordered from a Topaka publishing firm and they will sell for 10 cents a copy if the class gets approval from the Student Senate Special Events Committee. All revenues received by the project be used for subsequent projects, he said.
Bill Kipp, Lawrence junior and one of Licher's class members, said the班制 to make the paper as relevant to the University community as possible.
"Basically, we used all of the stories submitted," he said. "We didn't have to make a decision of whether they were good or bad. They were all good."
He said the editorial board, made up of himself, his colleagues, students, guests and members throughout the organization.
"We established a context, basically, to produce the stories," he said.
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