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seams which cannot provide the continuous high quality of heat sealing." Continental Can's Flexible Packaging Division can make the side-

seal, bottom-gusseted bags at its plants in Newark (Ohio) , Beaumont (Texas) , Columbus (Georgia) and South Gate (California), in either transparent or opaque styles. Bags are shipped to packers neatly-aligned on wire wickets - - 250 on each - - for faster tear-off. They can be printed by flexographic line or full process tone.

High speed, automatic baggers and sealers, which provide a double seal for the polyethylene twin-pack bags, are available from the Tele-Sonic Packaging Corporation.

S O U T H E R N W E E D C O N F E R E N C E The Southern Weed Conference meets in Jacksonville, Florida at

Hotel Robert Meyer on January 18, 19 & 20, 1966. This is "The" Meeting on Weed Control in the South. Weed control scientists should plan now to attend.

TO B U I L D P I O N E E R P L A N T R E S E A R C H F A C I L I T Y Campbell Soup Company has announced plans for expanding the com-

pany's agricultural research operations with construction of a Pioneer Plant Research Laboratory at Cinnaminson, New Jersey.

In making the announcement, Dr. S. G. Younkin, Vice President - Agricultural Research for Campbell, said the new laboratory will conduct preliminary studies to determine what agricultural research projects promise the greatest return to the company and have reasonable chances for success. The Pioneer Plant Research Laboratory will also undertake studies in the development of new agricultural research techniques and conduct fundamental research related to projects already in progress at Campbell's 14 agricultural research facilities in this country and abroad.

Plans for the new facility call for an attractive one-story brick building of contemporary design containing approximately 11,000 square feet. The building will house three laboratories, offices, a library, and a conference room. Attached to it will be a controlled-temperature greenhouse of ap- proximately 3,000 square feet. The new department will have eight em- ployees initially, including five scientists in the fields of plant physiology, genetics, biochemistry, chemistry and microbiology.

CANADA'S G O L D E N N E M A T O D E F R I G H T E N S U.S. G R O W E R S Not long ago, potato growers in the United States and Canada were

alarmed by the news that the golden nematode, called "King of plant pests," had been found in British Columbia.

Until this summer, only two areas in North America --- Newfoundland (Canada) and Long Island, New York - - were known to be infested by this microscopic but destructive plant pest. Then a Canadian farmer dis- covered the golden nematode in his potato field on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

While Europe has been plagued by the golden nematode for decades and has suffered severe crop losses in heavily-infested aras, North America has managed to protect itself from any large scale invasion of the pest. Its unexpected appearance on Canada's West Coast, however, gravely concerns many U.S. farmers who annually produce 400 million bushels of potatoes