Show SMOKELESS POWDER TESTS discovered that cornstalk aro are better than cotton penns crove crave N J feb 15 at the big powder works of the duponts at Caro Carti cys point interesting inte experiments in smokeless powder are being mado made by experts in the employ ot of the government ern ment one of the difficulties that has attended the manufacture so far is that the powder is not wholly smokeless and that it apparently loses strength through storage bt orage the experiments peri ments it Issa Is said idled led to the discovery that cotton could not be ground fine enough to bring about the best results and that the powdered pith of cornstalks corn stalks gave somewhat better results |