| Show GRAIN ORAIN STRESSED FOR RUBBER USE Surplus of Wheat Corn Available Says WASHINGTON May 8 CD- CD Secretary of Agriculture Friday urged a sharp extension in inthe inthe inthe the governments government's program of makIng making making mak mak- ing synthetic rubber from grain alcohol produced from surplus i wheat and corn Suggesting the use cf of at least bushels of grain he said this quantity would make about gallons of alcohol which in turn would produce sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- butadiene to make about tons of synthetic rubber or about third one-third of norm normal l needs of the country recommendation was made before a senate agriculture subcommittee investigating uses of farm crops in the production of alcohol and synthetic rubber While was testifying Senator Wheeler D. D Mont charged that the agriculture department department department de de- de- de has been asleep at the switch for 10 years Instead of paying out these millions and billions of dollars to farmers for not planting crops we should have been doing more experimenting experimenting ex ex- Wheeler told Wick Wick- ard The agriculture department has not been on its toes for 10 years as it should have been pointed out that congress congress congress con con- gress had voted the funds used Inthe in inthe inthe the crop control program and also governed the amount spent on experimentation Telling of research activities the secretary said After full discussions with members of my technical staff I Iam Iam Iam am convinced that immediate attention attention attention at at- should be given to expandIng expanding expanding expand expand- ing the present program for butadiene butadiene butadiene buta buta- diene production from grain alcohol alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol so as to make possible greater production of synthetic rubber during the calendar year 1943 said large stocks of grain were available In fact it is likely that thou- thou on Page Pace Two Column One GRAIN STRESSED FOR RUBBER RUDDER USE i Continued from Page One sands ands of bushels of wheat will be i lost through lack of suitable storage storage storage stor stor- age space unless they can be putto put putto putto to use quickly Emphasizing the war as well as civilian needs for tor rubber said that unless tires were available available avail avail- able particularly next year and thereafter crop production would be considerably hampered and the movement of farm products to processors and consumers would be seriously threatened The secretary said the process of converting 95 per cent alcohol to butadiene was te technically established established established although to his knowledge It had not heretofore been used on a commercial basis in this coun coun- try The government already has made upward of bushels of wheat and corn available to processors for conversion into high grade industrial alcohol alcohol needed needed for tor making munitions and for tor other war purposes This grain Is Js being substituted for raw for raw sugar and molasses |
