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Show Use for Surplus Crops Studies are being planned by the federal government for new outlets for surplus crops, it has been announced an-nounced by Dr. Henry G. Knight of the department of agriculture. It is planned to put 200 scientists to work to discover more outlets for tobacco, dairy products, apples, vegetables, white potatoes, animal fats, hides, skins and leather. Expanding the uses of nicotine from tobacco will be one of the important researches. Nicotine is highly toxic to insect life and is useful both as a contact insecticide and stomach poison, Knight said. New uses for apple surplus, such as the development of an apple juice, new dried-apple products, pectin, cuticle wax, seed oil and residual pulp of apples, are being studied. |