Show DETERMINE ACIDITY OF CORR CORN improved apparatus developed by I 1 members of staff of plant bureau time la in lessened tho the test to determine the acidity of corn which previously required lu U to IS 18 hours can be ma made de baless ln less than thai one hour by tho the uso use 0 of 1 improved apparatus nj developed by 13 J besley esley and G IJ II boston of the officer ot of grain standardization bureau of plant industry under the new method an electric mechanism similar to those seen I 1 on soda fountains Is used to lo mii finely ground corn and alcohol thirty minutes of mixing it Is found will C ex tract from the corn an amount of nold reacting substances aces campara comparable e fo 0 t tha a amount estr extracted acted through digestion la 89 per cent alcohol at room room temperature for IS 18 hours the methods for malting making acidity determinations of corn with this apparatus aro are described tin detail in 08 of the secretary recently published by tho the united states department of agriculture |