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Show ! THE JOURNAL LAYTON. UTAH Cheimirgy Aids in Turning Farm Crops Into Materials Vital in Defense Program By GRIXOItY WOOD (Hflrased by Western Newspdpr Union WASHINGTON, I). C. Tin: SIMl'I.i: THINGS OF Syndicate W NU Service I said Susie, twisting around to get As effect in the back And isnt it the defense pro-- 1 marvelous that I got that exact pram pains further shade of blue in the hose? queried Susie ecstatically. turn, Americas farms will I should say sighed Aunt Ella, supply an increasing quanshould be able for $2 that anyone FIRST-AItity of raw materials that wanted In the she to get anything will flow into factories and r 'to the I was your age When hose. of way field as munitions of stockings. three I for plants $2 pair paid AILING HOUSE crops and emerpe in the form And it was that very evening that by Roger B. Vhitman of essentially important supSam told Aunt Ella shed better stay for the rest of the winter. plies for our armed forces. Susie had been delighted to ask The man behind the plow is Cooling a House in Rummer. Sams Aunt Ella for a kUESlloN; Our attic floor is In- as vital to our preparedness visit. Sam said Aunt Ella had had sulated. There is four feet from drive as the man behind the a hard life, and never had had any the floor to the peak of the roof. of fun, and Susie resolved to give her We are told that a ventilator would gun. Agriculture will, time of her life. the fulfill its primary job let out heat built up by the sun on course, Well go to some good shows, the root This sounds logical, but of providing foodstuffs for our and Ill take her Bhe planned, I should think that a ventilator at armies and civilian populato the shops, and well have around each end would be better. What do tion. It will also furnish man see. Typical of many produtts being prodmed through chemurgic the best little dinners youll you think? hadnt our to somehow But the plan implement processes are these automobile accessories made from soybeans. Answer: Air confined In an attic power clicked. The good shows had left will add Dr. (). May, U. S. 1 ). A. chemist, stands beside the display. is over heated by the sun beating on fighting forces. And it She said she Aunt Ella cold. the roof. On a 90 degree day I have one more important contribuclea. how so many Is now millions of or The couldn't understand Its Milk, yield perhaps known attic temperature to be as tion that of supplying prodbeing used in the making of plastics of acres would be required for such people could spend money merely Uncle Sams D two-wee- high as 150 degrees. Heat from air confined in an attic under a peaked roof goes through the ceilings and heats the rooms below. It will lake many hours after sundown for the attic air to cool off, and duiing that time rooms below will still be heated. The surest way to keep a house cool in summertime is to have plenty of attic ventilation so that air can escape as fast as it becomes heated. One excellent arrangement r is a high in the roof with another trap door through the attic floor below. Air in the attic and in the house will then pass out os fast as it is heated, and be replaced by air coming in through open windows downstairs. The scuttle over the roof trap can be worked by cords going downstairs through the attic If the attic has a stair, floor trap. its door should be left open for the movement of air. With this arrangement a house will cool off at sundown almost as If a rapidly as the air outdoors roof trap cannot be provided there should be attic windows large A enough to give cross ventilation. for the fan made Job, large placed to blow outward through an opening through the roof or attic wall. Is a great advantage in speeding lip circulation. With house air permitted to escape as fast as it becomes heated, the temperature In the house will be little if any higher than the temperature of the air outdoors. (Togged Cesspools, Question: What can I do to have my cesspool cleaned from water. I have two cesspools, one lending into the other. Can I use yeast to any advantage? Should I have them This would cost cleaned out? trap-doo- slo-spee- d money. Answer: Yeast will be of no use A badly clogged a cesspool. is left alone and a new best cesspool one built alongside of it. If you wish to save yourself money and further troubles, by all means inThese traps are stall a grease-trap- . made of clay and are not very expensive. Silver Plate. Question: When silver plate is put away, is it better to clean it occasionally, whether It is used or rot? If the silver plate were allowed to get as black as it will, would the heavy tarnish injure th plate Answer: An occasional cleaning is advisable. Do not permit the silver to get very black; it will be d'fiicut to clean when the silver i reeded, and it may become pitted Old Silver is best donned by a silversmith. Stained Cistern Water. Ques' i'n: We have just pi.t on a cedar sh ode ro (. Bd find that it diseel rs the cistern wntir. Can anything be put in the cistern to overcome t'ns corui.t'on? Answer The staining comes from the oils and coloring matter in the shtnfes. and nothing that can be added to t'T water will overcome it. In ucts of the field to be fabricated into war materials. Twenty-fiv- e years ago, when the first World war broke out, Chem-urg- y Uie new science of transforming farm crops into industrial products was not in existence. Today It has made such strides that the funds of both the federal govern- ment and great private industries re backing its development. One of its potent economic values Is tliut it can help solve the problem of overproduction nd surplus farm crops. dislocation of ocean transportation has already interfered with our supplies of many standard impoits, raising prices if not causing actual shortage as it did during the World war. Chem-urgmay solve the problem of providing many of these at home. Cornstarch Furnishes Glycerin. Thirnks to chemurgy we have already made ourselves in the output of many products we lacked during the World war. Take glycerin, for example. At the outset of hostilities we found ourselves virtually without it because Imports from Europe were cut off. Glycerin vanished from soaps in order to conserve it for the production of munitions. Then science learned how to make glycerin from cornstarch. Today the supply is unlimited and the cost is lower. Other important materials trace their origin to corn. Corn syrup is used in the production of rayon, the preparation of pharmaceuticals, in tanning and in the tobacco industry. Corn dextrins go into the manufacture of high speed printing inks, mucilage, explosives and plyboard Cornstarch is used in the glues. textile, paper and laundry industries. Yeast, dusting powder, dyes, and are other present or potential uses. A plastic made from residue of com, can be gluten, employed in making buttons, laminated wall boards and waterproof varnish for paper. Besides its purely industrial uses corn, or its derivatives, is used in the production of other food products, including jams, jellies and preserves, vinegar, salad oils, table oils, ice cream and cooking oils. What has been done with com is Just one example of the possibilities that chemists forsoe for numerous other farm products. ever-puzzlin- g War-tim- e y wall-boar- and prints. Chemists claim they can make cheap but attractive draperies and rugs from skimmed milk. Clothing from casein is being manufactured by a process resembling the conversion of wood into rayon. Cigarette paper, formerly Imported from Europe, is being made from flax grown in Minnesota and California. All cigarette paper used to come from France, Italy and Belgium, where It was manufactured from linen rags gathered in eastern Europe. Now a plant operating at Pisgah Forest, N. C., is working day and night using 10,000 tons of flax fiber reifiiirlng the output of more than 75,000 acres annually. Furfural made from oat hulls is now used in oil refining and in the Antiprocessing of wood resin. freeze fluids and fuel alcohol come from cull potatoes. Glycerol from animal fats is used in the production of dynamite. The production of synthetic rubber seems to be high on the road to success. A synthetic substitutes said to be more durable than rubber itself are already beall of which ing manufactured, promise to increase our independence of the supplies in the beleaguered Dutch East Indies. Alcohol is the base of several of these substitutes. Their successful commercialization would mean that the starch from millions of acres of corn would be consumed. Cotton Vital for Defense. There are scores of spots in the defense production picture where cotton, flax, soybeans, wool, molasses and animal fats will find a place. They are already extensively utilized In the production of automobiles and trucks and they will be similarly employed In the manufacture of tanks, gun carriages, antiaircraft equipment, shells and other implements of war. Other novel developments are on the way or promised, wherein airplanes may come from the field instead of the mine. Radio cabinets and plumbing fixtures may be merely a mould of soybean cakes. A leading motor car manufacturer is said to be about ready to equip his cars with a fender. We are told that an axe cannot dent this fender. It is only a stop from fender to automobile body or airplane fuselage. Chemurgists say there are no insurmountable obsta- half-doze- n farm-plasti- c Grabs the Bull by the Horns 'AV V,-- . a v vxv v' ';r ' - "V 'r VsA , -- N 'x N ' A v 'S'Vx . . . It took a 000th second camera exposure to slop the action when Norman Person, Texas cowboy, tried to bulldog a steer In record time. He is shown competing in a steer wrestling contest during the recent rodeo at Madison bquare Garden, New York. Counterfeiting War Nets Real Dividends WASHINGTON. change color everuady. (TouiIt Piano Finish. What can he done to ri n.ovc a cloudy ; rpt ;mee, winch las come up " tin f h of our are ers no of - Great forcrowds passlonger easy pu'kmgs counterfeit money. Repot ts received by the secret service in Washington from San Er.u'i .sco and New York indicate that those davs are gone. I iuno Arnwcr. Wive the surf.ee with a The Sun Francisco fair, winch soft doth dampened tn a mixture of closed this fall, repotted n total of one tablespoonful of cider vinegar $20 in coui'tct fed notes and $40 20 to the quart of tepid water. Then in courterfc t coins passed during w.pe dry the 1940 season Gate receipts were Que-tiun- A - $1,157 000. $7,754 000. Visitors to the fa.r spent From the New York fair, which also locked its gates this fall, a total of $157 in counterfeit notes and $587 85 in countcrfe.t coins was repotted for 1040 Gate receipts were Visitors spent $37,040,-20- 0 $31,408,812. on th.e fa.r grounds Frank J. Wilson, chief of the secret sci vice, behoves the reason for the low percentage of counterfeit reported at both fa.rs is that education is putting the nation on guard against spurious money. nion.iipf?r S1 fr. --tli I k Apples peeled, cored and baked In pineapple juice make a new and tempting dish. Use a clean sheet of wrapping on. paper to roll pies and pastry It saves a lot of cleaning up later. If cream Is too thin to whip, try adding the unbeaten white of an egg. a Baking soda is one of the best known agents for cleaning glassware. Protect the mattress from tearing and from dust by a muslin mattress cover, and by placing a mattress pad between the spring and the mattress. Worth the It is the climb tabl Cri that p worth . cle. Anything never cheap, tAd hasL ir in lids mason old jar By boiling a gallon of water to which has counters for eun been added a cup of vinegar you weak. It hurts to fall strengthens us to pjcp can remove that ancient up. L. II. Tall. t. for pleasure when thousands were starving. She ate the good little While science Is learning new In- dinners with the simple comment dustrial uses for farm products, it that that standard of living was all Is likewise expanding its knowledge right If people could afford it. of soil chemistry. One thing learned Well, Susie had said to herself, is that chemurgy can work profitaonly for two weeks and I can its bly for farmers only if it is built stand it that long all right. And I on a foundation of high soil fertility. wont say anything to Sam about it Fertilizer Is Important. either." But when the two weeks Vincent Sauchelli, agricultural re- had stretched to four, and then Sam search expert of Baltimore, Md., in had suggested she stay the rest of a recent address before the Farm the winter, she laid the situation a farm-grow- n, car, truck, or air- plane. Chemurgic conference in Chicago, had this to say: Chemurgy can succeed only on farm land where plant foods are returned to the soil In the form of commercial fertilizer at a rate which at least balances the amount removed each year by growing crops and live stock. Mr. Sauchelli envisioned important results looking not only toward a higher farm income but a permanent productivity of the soil as the result of increasing knowledge of before him. She says people have got to get back to the simple things of life. Such as what? encouraged Sam.' Oh, books, vaguely, "and not going to shows, and bread pudding and thick soled shoes. Now, Honey, began Sam dethe thing for you to terminedly, do is to pay no attention to all this Hark from the Tombs hooey. Im sorry I asked Aunt Ella to stay the rest of the winter, but I dont see how I can very well tell her Ive the soil. But I wont changed my mind. One of the most significant steps press it, and Im inclined to think he said, is that which Aunt Ella wont want to stay much forward, helps the farmer learn more about longer anyway. And that was that. his particular soil and its plant food Another week went by, and still needs. State agricultural experi- another. Susie's mother, dropping ment stations are prepared to assist in one afternoon, found her daughfarmers not only in soil tests to de- ter alone and wrapped in gloom, termine line proper fertilizer analy- Aunt Ella, it developed presently, ses for various crops, but also inform being out for the afternoon. them on the placement of fertilizer What in the world is the matter to inpurbest results. with you? asked MYs. Jarvis. Whether our farm lands yield Its Aunt Ella, said Susie with crops for industrial and defense uses a little quaver in her voice. or food for our armies, the problem Well, whats she done? inquired of maintaining the productivity of her mother cheerfully. the soil is simpler today than it w'as She thinks everything's wrong, in the World war. Here, again, sciwailed Susie, and all she talks entific research can be thanked. about is the good old days. She Twenty-fivyears ago American thinks that ice cream is a luxury farmers faced a serious shortage of and that you shouldnt have chicken fertilizers. German potash leaped more than once a month. from $39 to over $400 a ton. Chilean Mrs. Jarvis stretched out one nitrates grew dangerously scarce. hand and studied critically a perfect The painful experience of that pe- manicure. She eats the chicken riod brought some enlightening reand ice cream, doesn't she? she sults. asked. Nitrates Made In U. S. Why, yes, was Susies answer. Research and experimentation And goes to the shows? taught the United States how to Yes, but make its own nitrates instead of imBut she still wants the plain and porting them from Chile, says a simple things of life? statement of the Middle West Soil Why, yes, but Thus toImprovement committee. said Mrs. Jarvis rising Well, day it is possible to obtain nitrogen and drawing on her gloves, why from the air in unlimited quantities dont Susie you give them to her? to combine with various other maand opened her mouth to terials in any form desired suCh as closed it without a sound.speak ammonium sulphate, ammonium The week that followed went down phosphate, ammonium nitrate, ni- in the Thornton history as the Week trate of soda, cynamid, urea and of the Pot Roast. It, the pot roast, calcium nitrate, not to mention by- had not been so bad the first night, product sulphate of ammonia for rich and brown, with fluffy dumour sources of fertilizer nitrogen. plings and lots of nice brown gravy. We learned, too, how to get our It had even gone over fairly big own potash from deposits in the the second night, a la casserole. Southwest instead of Germany. Our But its successive appearances were supply of phosphorus (believed to received with less and less enthube sufficient to last 2,000 years) siasm by the head of the house. and the means of recovering it were What's the big idea? he said, as well known during the first World darkly at the piece de resistgazing war as today. While our resources ance when it had reached the state of potash are not so large as those of hash. We've been whittling of phosphorus, they are bcl.eved to on that cow now for a week. away be ample for some generations to Don't you worry, young man, come. said Susie blithely. Ive saved All things considered, the Ameri$3 25 out of the housekeeping allowcan farmers task in backing up our ance this week. defense program is a job. But the pursuit of the plain and And so important does the United simple life didn't stop at the ThornStates government regard this ton table. Sam s suggestion that chum.rgic movement that it has unthey run around the corner and call dertaken the establishment of four on their friend. Gary Cooper, was great r.gional laboratories, the first instantly vetoed by his better half. of winch was completed recently at We go the mm ics too much, she rhiladophia. Others are being pro- said decidedly. And besides I want vided nt Peoria, 111., in the heart of to get caught up with my mending." the co. n belt, at San Francisco and And Sam subsided behind his New Orhans. Each will eventually grumbling. After a while hepaper fell have a staff of 250 who will make and snored. Susie darned asleep inanaljt.eal and away placidly. Aunt Ella darned, vest. gat, ons. commodity surveys and too. She had really fallen rather chemical engineering studies, for the hard for Gary Cooper. creation and marketing of new It was less than a week later that building materials, insulating the Thorntons accompanied Aunt materials and plastics. Ella to the train for her return One of the products on which home. She had received word, she chenuugic experts have been worksaid, that necessitated her leaving ing recently is castor oiL For years immediately. chemists have been seeking a methWell. said Sam, after the tram od of using it in paint and varnish had puffed its way out of the manufacture, but castor o.l has been station. What'll we do now?" of l.ttle use because it was sticky Were going on a spree," anand slow to dry. Now these chem nounced his wife. Were going to ists have found they can take all that money I saved dehjr drate castor oil tremove moisture) hash and bread pudding and eating do.r.g thus lcav mg a pale oil that dries to my own work and go on a regular a hard film and keeps iti pale color oust." after long exposure. Experiments Ho!" shouted Sam "I thought under way in Texas. FI nuria. Louisihat money was being saved for a ana and Mississippi indi rate that cas cause? tor beans can be grown here. It was," said Susie triumphantly. Driving ACCIDENTS 1 DOUBLED in Winter! JUST WHEN DRIVING IS MOST physio-chcmic- IMPORT The best drivers need WEEDS the bes: tire chains carried by the best dealen. AMERICAN BAR REINFORCED CHAINS b -- car on the road and out of the repair she: keep you on the job and out of : pital. WEED CHAINS give youn LOOK FOR THE double mileage. Their hidden f WEED CHAIN SNOW GIRL provide greater protection. 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