Show Sugar From Wood. Now Uioy'ro making sugnr out of wood Chemists lmvo found that they can tnko n ton of sawdust and set a (Uinrtor of n ton of sugar out of It. Tllo process consists of putting the sawdust Into n closed retort and subjecting sub-jecting It to digestion with n woaU ho-lutton ho-lutton of sulphurous acid under a pressure pres-sure of from ninety to one hundred pounds to the square Inch. Klghty per cent of tho sugar thus obtained is fermentable. fer-mentable. Tho product Is calleil "ae-chulosc." |