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Show CORN COB COMING TO ITS0WJ1 Washington, Oct. 15. Tho lowly and despised corncob, for decades ho useless refuse of American agriculture agri-culture has como Into Its own. Tho corncob was learned today, Is now the source ot a highly Important chemical derivative developed through tho researches of tho Department De-partment of Agriculture laboratory, ,Jn co-operation with tho chemists of tho new American chemical industry, indus-try, built up undor tho stress ot tho war need for laboratory products which prior to 1914 were monopol-zed monopol-zed by Germany. The cornbob, which heretofore has been a burden to tho farmor, will low take Its placo among the many vital raw products which through tho miracles of tho laboratory supply sup-ply tho world with dally needs. It will rank with the prollflo coal tar bases In its usefulness according to tho Department chemists. In fact, It will bo largely used In connection connec-tion with the vast coal tar dyo-stuff dyo-stuff and chemical Industry which Is (Continued oa Pago Threo) corn cos mmh TO ITSJDWN (Continued from Pago Six) growing by leaps and bounds lu this country, and which threatens to tenter ten-ter the lists against the powerful German chemical monopoly for world supremacy. The Dopartment of Agricultural chemists in their efforts to find a use for the lowly corncob succeeded In the first lustauco In developing from It a paste that will find wde use as a binder In the manufacturing of fibre board and wall board. Ono of tho analysis undertook somo experiments ex-periments with tho residue left aftor the paste had been developed and discovered that it contained approximate approx-imate 10 percent of high grade furfural. fur-fural. Furfural Is one of tho basic needs of the Immense chemical Industry in the manufucturo of the wholo vast range of coal tar products rangltiK from dyestuffs to photographic labor atory matorials. Prior to tho' time tho United States entered tho war. ono of tho conditions which throttled throt-tled chemical dovlopment in this country woa tho German control or furfural. At that time, tho Gorman monopoly was demanding $23 a pound for this derivative, a practically practi-cally prohibitive prlco for tho Amor-lcan Amor-lcan Industry. Through tho discovery of the corncob aa a source for this chemlal, tho American chomlcal industry in-dustry will bo ablo to manufacture It at a prlco that will make it readily read-ily avnllablo to tho dye trade and other users at a price that will reel re-el uco tho cost of manufacturing scores of chemical products materially. mater-ially. As a result the farmer will ho ablo to dispose of tho corncob which for many years has served only to clutter clut-ter up tho barnyard. |
