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Mohawk Indians Place Blessing On New Blight ResistantThe Mohawk Indians of the St Regis Reservation in Northern New York have given their blessing to a new variety of blight resistant oat developed at the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and named Mohawk.And Dr Erl Bates, advisor in Indian extension at Cornell, says this is the first time in the new world that an Indian tribe ias actually dedicated a cereal cropIn a special ceremony at the Richard Sherman farm in Westport, Essex county, (a grower of certified Mohawk ecd), the Northern New York red men officially accepted and christened their name sake, danced seven times around the crop, and sprinkled bits of tobacco around a plant to sanctify it.In the official blessing, Chief Alex White called Mohawk a great oat in recognition of a great peopleThe new oat resulted from a cooperative breeding and testing program between the United States Department of Agriculture and the Cornell Experiment Station, and the work in particular of Prof. H. H. Love and Neal F Jensen of the plant breeding department.Mohawk is expected to find a ready place in the farmer’s operation. Throughout the State the 1947 oat crop is short. At least 40 per cent of the acreage was planted to the Vicland variety, much of which suffered from a blight known as Hel-minthosporium.
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Chateaugay Record and Franklin County Democrat
Chateaugay, New York, US
Fri, Sep 12, 1947
Page 6
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