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Show IAKE GOOD PAPER OF CORN STALKS Ames, Iowa. A ton of cornstalks In is region lias boon considered so ueh agricultural waste, tint the ehom-il ehom-il engineering department at Iowa ate college lias found it to lie worth, present prices, about $150 a ton icn converted into paper. Prof. (). It. Sweeney, head of Hie de-rlment, de-rlment, lias manufartnred paper of line quality from eornstnl:;s, and lie ! ioves it can be made to match in ality any Htock of wood-pulp paper, iifessor Sweeney already has visions I paper mills In these prairie states, l.iging baek an industry which the lutry is losing with the pussing of I forests. I ho queslioii of utilizing cornstalks I the making of paper involves a liber of Industrial problems into Ich the chemists have been delving, l.'essiir Sweeney's experiment.-; show I by men ns of a chemical process Iked out in his laboratory, six-lbs six-lbs of n ton of paper can be made i a ton of stalks. Iowa produces I eon 1X,00D,MR) and 'jr.Wt.Di() (ms talks yearly and the United Stales I : H0,ntMi,O(0 tons. It and wheiit straws hae been I in the manufacture of slraw-, slraw-, but they are too short -filtered making 1 higher grades of paper. K'.alks do not ul'fer this dlliieulty, I rrofessor Sweeney, they being lr, in fact, than those of wood. manufaettirei's who have seen laper made in the laboratory dell de-ll It to be of high quality. department also discovered n duct In the paper-making proe-I proe-I The liquid extracted from the I- was found to have high adlies-Joperlies, adlies-Joperlies, which might be applied I new adhesive product. |