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Show Substitutes for Tapioca Supplies of tapioca cut oiT by the war in the Orient may be replaced by homegrown "waxy corn," a kind of corn with a special type of starch suitable for both food and industrial uses. Development of this promising promis-ing emergency crop for the Corn Belt has already reached the stage where the department believes It can be put into commercial production produc-tion by 1943. Preliminary breeding work on waxy corn has been under way since 1936 and it is now only a matter of increasing the available supply of seed to obtain the production produc-tion needed. |