Experiment Station Record, Volume 93, July-December, 1945 Page: 1
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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD
Vol. 93 JULY 1945 No. 1
RECENT WORK IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE1
AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry,
Agricultural Research Administration, 1944, 0. E. MAY (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur.
Agr. and Indus. Chenw. Rpt., 1944, pp. 39; also in U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Admin.
Rpt., 1944, pp. 13-51).-The following, among other accomplishments, are reported
upon by the Bureau and the U. S. D. A. Regional Research Laboratories: Establishment
of industrial penicillin production; testing of antibiotics for tqxicity to
animals; survival of an allergenic component of castor-beans after cooking; development
of oil-soluble nicotine compounds; further advances in food dehydration;
improvement of quality of dried eggs through microbiological studies; "Velva
Fruit," a high-quality frozen-fruit dessert as a commercial outlet for surplus cantaloups
and other fruits; citrus juice concentrates; use of grapefruit pectin-pomace
commercially; a table sirup from apple juice; tartrates recovered from grape
wastes by new process; nightshade berries removed from canning peas by new
process; leaf meals from vegetable wastes and sweetpotato silage as feeds; synthetic
rubber program helped by improvement of tallow emulsifiers; recovery of
rubber from domestic plants; cotton tire cords improved by "dual-stretch" process;
new cotton bandage fabric welcomed by hospitals; flameproofing of cotton fabrics;
industrial utilization of sweetpotatoes; wheat starch from flour by new process;
means for changing uncooked starches to sugars; grain-to-butylene glycol-tobutadiene
process ready for industrial use; new starch compound useful in coatings
and laminating plastics; crude lactic acid converted to pure derivatives; cocoabutter
and olive-oil substitutes made from cottonseed and peanut oils; good cold
glue from peanut protein; globular proteins converted to fibrous form; waterproof
glue for plywood from soybean meal and phenolic resin; industrial use of Norelac
resin from -soybean oil; ground corncobs used for cleaning airplane engines;
Noreseal as a cork substitute; turpentine derivatives useful for synthetic rubber;
use of Bureau's gum-cleaning process by naval stores industry; chemical stimulation
of trees without damage to pine gum; and new domestic sources of tannins.
Inorg3nic chemistry, F. EPHRAIM, edited by P. C. L. THORNE and E. R.
ROBERTS (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; New York 3: Nordesnan Pub. Co., 1943, 4.
Eng. ed., rev., pp. 921-, ills. 95).-This book is designed to include an unusually
1 The publications abstracted in these columns are seldom available for distribution by the Office
of Experiment Stations. In general, application should be made to the Office of Information of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C, for publications of the Department; to
the directors of the State agricultural experiment stations, as listed on page 3 of the cover of this
issue,for publications of the several experiment stations; and to publishers of books and journals for
material issued by them. Microfilms and photostatic copies, the latter legible without magnifying
equipment, may be purchased from the Library, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25,
D. C. Rates and other details are explained in a previous issue (E. S. R., 87, p. 324).
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