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Show CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE (By E. F. B. Daude, M. E.) k S human life? By studying the diet methods of plant life, and the relation the plant has to the animal ertajr it, and the human eating the animal, forming a cycle of economics in human hu-man life and expansion. Those that can get a copy of Dr. Oswald Sehrein-er's Sehrein-er's address before the Agricultural Chemists, recently assembled at Washington, should do so. He is chief of the Soil Fertility Division of tho Bureau of Soil at Washington. And he brings into play the industrial use; chemically, uhe following . minerta: are playing in the development o.' agriculture and conservation of tho soils, such as manganese, copper, boron, bor-on, iodine, zinc. Zinc, by tta jr day is playing a strong industrial part in the development of agriculture, Bin"' more will be heard pn this in ftjtKt-particles ftjtKt-particles on Sevier Valley, j We then continue into the egrkui-' egrkui-' tural uses of barium, strontium, caesium, caes-ium, titanium, chromium, vanadium, aluminum, silicon, as it is applied fca i the development of agriculture. H j might be noted here that most o 'these minerals are present in Sovier ; Valley and can be utilized in the development de-velopment of chemistry in relatioa to agriculture right at home. So that from the research world we have the knowledge today, that ttw mineral world is essential to the organic or-ganic world, and that we humans, aa part of the organic world, are related in our beings to all this, and that with our knowledge capable of developing the harnessing of the use of metals in our vitamins, should be able to develop de-velop the us biologically of organic products to serve us as well in tfc Industrial In-dustrial world, and to that end great strides have been made, and Southern Utah has natural resources within itself it-self capable of developing the two, the mineral and the organic if it will, and at its back door is a natural market mar-ket for these raw materials, all needed need-ed in the industrial world, now beinjj developed on our West Coast. With the ultimate growth of foreign for-eign markets in buying our manufactured manufac-tured materials and the Orient grow-ng grow-ng apace with its tremendous population, popula-tion, gives rise to the vision of untold opportunity in developing our West Coast markets and no better territory for raw materials exists in the Weft than Southern Utah. . If it will, it cun develop a chemical empire, reaching out in raw materials from its mines, and farms, to furnish the quest and requirements of the chemical industries indus-tries on the West Coast of the present pre-sent and future and such a vision I believe deserves study. There is no division of science as important to agriculture as chemistry. chemis-try. Emerson aptly said "Our Globe, as seen by God, is a transparent Law, not a mass of facts. The Law dissolves dis-solves the fact an dholds it fluid. All things are dissolved to their center, by their cause." Until very recent years, agriculture overlooked the economic ec-onomic Law of chemistry in its development; de-velopment; but under our present day research the Law of chemistry has dissolved established facts, and is readjusting re-adjusting agricultural economics to a point as yet unheard of, and bringing bring-ing the farmer nearer to an idustrial realization of his calling. In the 18th century, Leeuwenhoek, one of the first to study microbes, in an age that was still shackeled by superstitious traditions, this poor Dutch janitor had the courage to look through his home-made microscope and was the first man to see microbes under a microscope. In his day no in-struments in-struments existed. He had to make his j own. He had no standard knowledge to guide him, but in his inspiration he pioneered the way to microscopic studies, stu-dies, and without as yet being able to ; properly reason the full effects of his discovery, he plowed through his vision, vis-ion, and by so doing, made it possible . for future generations to study biology biolo-gy and results in chemistry under the microscope; two phases of science so essential to the development of agriculture. agri-culture. He unwittingly had dissolved and then established facts to the center cen-ter of their cause. After ail facts are of greatest value when used to determine deter-mine consequences especially in the production of anything and with old standards toppling into oblivion and new standards arising, is it not time for the farmer to become an industrialist indus-trialist in his production of farm products pro-ducts ? The most vital thing we have today in economics is the effect of TODAYS new developments on TOMORROWS TO-MORROWS operating statement. This law can well apply to all branches of endeavor. New standards of merchandising affect af-fect the farmer as well as the seller oi products. New sources of buying power are arising today and this cause and effect is chiefly responsible for the phenomenal rise of prices in cop--uer, lead, nickle and other minerals proportionately, each finding an industrial in-dustrial niche in the markets of the present day unheard of 20 years ago. So why not in agricultural products? No greater consumption is made on Earth than products derived from agriculture, ag-riculture, and the natural law of re-poduction re-poduction in organic life upon which Agriculture depends, whether it is plant or animal, gives it a great advantage ad-vantage over other industries. It reproduces what it sells today for tomorrows market, fulfilling thereby, a complete economic cycle unknown in any other industry, as a metal once mined never returns to Mother Earth rgain but a plant or animal is reproduced repro-duced into cycles of productivity, but with all that, agriculture is at the mercy of natural enemies or organic life, and without the aid of chemistry could not rise above the farmers of he ISth century, when studies in microscopies mi-croscopies were not yet known. However, How-ever, the science of chemistry has aid-sd aid-sd agriculture on its climb upward in the march of economic history of the ' -orld, and is opening a door today to " agriculture that is amazing the world. "Naturally as the scope of markets enlarge, so does the scope of competi-'on, competi-'on, and in this day and age entirely ew trade relations have been made, -is well as a new generation with em--hftic ideas, and the farmer who will . nd cannot rise with the new tide, is bound to fail in the end. As his economic econ-omic balance cannot encompass the ew Era, he must adjust himself to it n his development and his farm products, pro-ducts, and his relations in the markets mar-kets he seeks. What agriculture needs is the pro--r instruments to go ahead in a field hat holds such vast poss;b;lities th.v mae-n'tnds as yet has not been '.eas-red by scientists. After all rience can only succeed as it devel-;ts devel-;ts rMions to the a'ms of BUSINESS BUSI-NESS of TODAY, so that it factn-pconomics factn-pconomics can face the BUSINESS of TOMORROW, and agriculture must be by nature of its plan, follow science more closely into the future if it will rvive as an industry. Mnnv at th's -;e -'ov.d h statement impossible of realization, were I to state that the farmer of the future will largely fit in the economic econ-omic plan of industrial chemistry, and yet the statement is not one of pure fancy. Every farm today is a poten- j tial chemical factory, and always has been, but being never developed in that direction, it lacked there f or , flexibility in the adaption of its pro-j ducts and farms lose heavily from waste. It might be forecast that in I he future the farmer will raise raw , materials for the factory, besides j field crops, and his aims will likely i be in the field of carbohydrates, fatty j icid making materials, ainino-acids. i heterocyclic compounds, rather than field crops. ( He will raise in his particular lo-; -plity whatever plant or organic life i that will give him the largest yield: at the lowest cost, and for chemical j tompounds then in demand at the j Mmc. j If, for instance, he finds marke'3 ; for alpha-cellulose, used in paper and i lingerie manufacturing of today, as i in Germany, he may then cultivate weeds. If he finds a market for polymerised poly-merised methylbutadiene products, commonly called caoutchouc, he then would raise milk weeds and I might add here that Edison is making extensive ex-tensive research in Florida in milk weeds as to their uses in the chemical j industries and some thoughtjias been i given it in Idaho some years ago. Such raw materials find their way to the chemical plants who in turn make your rayon silk stockings with! j and the fine looking ivory sets used 'in Milady's boudoir. Without chemis- j try, the silk industry would have died !a natural death 15 years ago, and it j might be useful to quote here that ! only about 15 per cent of industrial i silks used today in textile industries are made from silk worm products, but chemically made silk represents : most of the silks we wear and use in our furnishings today, and their origin ori-gin is in organic chemical products in part. There is a limit to food markets they are governed by the law of sup-i sup-i ply and demand, largely created by ! industrial growth of communities, as for instance Los Angeles today is the natural food market for Southern Utah, and it therefore offers a fine market. But think of Los Angeles today to-day with its industrial develonment reaching out into TOMORROW and reali2e the scale this idustrial development develop-ment has attained, then vision what he raw material market is, and will be. As a matter of fact, the West Coast cities are reaching out for raw-materials raw-materials today from the mines and the farm and the chemical development develop-ment in the industries of the West Coast has been phenomenal, to say the least, in the last ten years, and it is not out of the way to state here that with the climate and geographical geographi-cal position of Southern Utah, this section can benefit from that demand 1 for raw materials, as needed in the chemical industries, if some thought was given to the subject of industrial research in the matter of biological and physical chemistry as related to materials entering into the industries that develop this need. Within the next ten years the West Coast will have developed a well defined industrial indus-trial unit in industrial chemistry, and those that will pioneer in this field may find they are entering a larger field than what it looks like at present pre-sent in the West. And those who don't believe such tateirtpnts. let them make inquiries into the research pro-ram of the Du--ont Comorptron at Wilmington, Del-eware. Del-eware. It would surprise them what this company has developed in the )i.t ten years in uses of farm products pro-ducts as raw material for chemical . ind-is'-ries and results obtained indus-vr'ally indus-vr'ally from wastes products of the farm. We will even go farther than that. , The farmer of the future may even : develop the lower forms of life, in uses industrially in biological chemistry. chem-istry. This phase would enter in the mat-I mat-I ter of fats and proteins and flavors. with the aid of waste sawdust and molasses, and ammonia made from the air. As these micro-organisms , 'would aid and fit in such a plan, j It might be added that already this field is being developed for industrial purposes. And a question has been asked, "can the cattle industry compete com-pete in the industrial chemical field with the yeast plant?" Recently, the U. S. Department of Agriculture made experiments where glucose is being converted quantative-, quantative-, ly into glucomic acids, which acid was j nriced at about $100.00 per pound, and J the price was based upon a limited de- mand. due to its being unknown quantity quan-tity as to its uses. Now it has a wide i markst and can be sold for 35c per pound. The wastes of the cattle industry I becomes worth 35c per pound by bio-.logicr.l bio-.logicr.l chemistry research, and ani-msU ani-msU unfit for food markets become worth more thnn the beef animal. ! It is self evident we are on the Vvri-vr. arl(j rf Srd-strsl development of biology and chemistry in relation o firm products and its wastes and n?w industries will spring up to con-! ; r vhi?se raw material products of ! 'f'T fnrm as fast as they can be pro-' pro-' Fov fir pdvnti'wi is your dis-'-'ct in such an idea? How near are -'! 'n furnishing the West Coast 'hmi'H markets with your farm raw material products ? Don't take it for r "d 'hat I am writing this as a , -,'t.er of pure conjecture. Look into I ;t and see what steps Sevier Valley I ;" taking in developing its possibilities ' '"'fHon. From the sage brush " ' ' - V--1- "ontnt of po-ta3si"m to "n''""'1-. ox:s a possib'l'ty ' ';h industrial potential pos- h-l-'tv. S"Tnb;os!s 8S part 0f biological ..-..i. r-V"ifal ee'ences will form a needed adjunct of all ch?mists of the future, and the man that can nd'1 the vision of the m( pHuvgit with it, can go far in his chosen field. -- :iHn,t-r;R development of th fu- depend upon mineral and organic raw ; materials for its basis of manufactur-jJno manufactur-jJno and agriculture must develop ilonq- the lines foreign to its past, and it cannot do without chemistry n its natura industrial and economic econom-ic development to come. Tn this development, metals have H"vH a groat role, as through its metallurgical research, scientists have "T'Vnri at organized conclusions of "!tabl','hd fnots unknown only a few years ago, and yet who have always existed, so how strange and slow we are in our development of use of matter, mat-ter, from the trme the poor Dutch jan-:tor jan-:tor sfnifrclnd with h;s home-mad" microscone. How we have foufrht him in his idea and how wp are f'Vht:nr.-likcwise f'Vht:nr.-likcwise against toppling over set ideas, but time dos not turn back, asi Wory proves. Those that are alive) today and who have lived through j from 1914. prior to the World War, to j tAfv a tree with rr on this. As j since that dny the voHd c"i j -.-' flv changed, in every thing per- j taining to its economic life. Accept-1 od facts then, are as dead as th? D'jdo TVH of yesteryear and thrrffore, in j accepting the forward step in chemis-1 try, in relation to the development, of j pr-riculture, we are but, accepting1 what ourselves have developed by j i(,"i'v of rv,nom'rs. After all. Man is but a unit in tho' TXTa'i program of organic lif'r, draw-i ing s"st-n.-nre from the animal andj vegetable kingdom. And until buti very few rccnt t.;mes we did not ap-1 "r'ntf! 'he prt metals played in our fnod sunply. Yet today, we are study- ing their uses in the matter of consti-' j f-pnV: in our foodstuffs. So why not in relation to industri:'. chemistrv? Today we have a proper classifica-':on classifica-':on mrde of vitamins, and how did 1 we derive the study, so necessary to |