Show Improved Products Improved processing of Ameri Ameri- grown can-grown crops will play an im im- important important part in providing substitutes substitutes substitutes for certain products product hereto hereto- heretofore heretofore fore imported but which arc are now difficult to obtain because of the war according to a recent writer in the Farm Journal Among such developments noted is a new pro pro- ces for cracking soybean oil to tomake tomake tomake make it better adaptable to indus indus- industrial industrial industrial trial uses Many products in the industrial field arc are now manufactured in whole or in part from soybeans and the list is being rapidly extended However the enormous increase in inthe inthe inthe the American soybean crop which has been witnessed during recent years ears is due principally to the grow ing use of soybean oil meal in feeds I for all kinds of livestock and poul- poul poul-j poul try In Jn n fact act act about 95 per cent of this meal goes into ino feeds while probably probably ably abl 85 per cent of the oil extracted from the beans finds its way into various edible products Predictions of recent years yea s that the soybean is destined to rise to to great heights as a cash crop of the American farmer are being ful fulfilled thereby adding to lo o the resources of the na na- nat na- na tion t ion I Agricultural authorities point out that the use of soybean oil meat meal as a protein dien of feeds for forme meat me t animals has proved d to t be an important factor in enabling stock st ck raisers to improve the quality of meat produced from their cattle hogs and pd sheep Proper feeding practices s they ad add J- J mean more dollars of profit in the pockets of livestock farmers |