Show I Larch Trees Furnish Food In the West lurch larch tree stumps are soon to yield a n competitor for the tho grape as a source of ot substance important in baking powder and beverages be Tartaric acid ha has hru long held an envia envia- ble blo position In tho the baking powder field Powders using other materials have secured man many adherents but there are those who will always alwa's prefer preter powders 1 which produce carbon dioxide as the I element causing breads to raise I This acid is the product of the grape and Is Js relatively expensive exp The demand for grapes for other purposes I is a n. contributing factor acid add has much the same properties prop prop- as tartaric acid and can be made In the laboratory b by the oxidation of grains milk sugar and There is Js a gum sum in tho the Western larch which has been found particularly well ell I suited as raw material for acid The Eastern astern larch is not so desirable The gum obtained b by bf the usual extraction extraction extrac extrac- tion methods and the process from there on is more or less secret Patents covering the proc process ss are aro beIng being be be- be ing taken out in all aU countries where the larch grows grots The stumps supply most of the mat material so that waste Is Js thereby utilized Muck acid has most of ot the desirable properties of or tartaric acid giving off carbon dioxide during the baking operations and having Ins no objectionable characteristics in the food It also can be satisfactorily used in beverages Just as tartaric acid cId and according to the Inventors In Is destined to b be used in large Jarge quantities for tor that purpose More tore than this It ft is said to bo be far tar cheaper than any o of the substances substances sub sub- stances with which it must compete A tract of ot larch bearing land Jand In the West est has been purchased and an Ini mi- mi plant plantis Js Is being erected |