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Show Sugar Expert Visits College Dr. Robert C. Heckett, scientific scien-tific director of the Sugar Research Re-search foundation in New York city, Wednesday discussed sugar experimentation with college officials of-ficials and became acquainted with research program being conducted in fields related to sugar at Utah State Agricultural college, according ac-cording to R. H. Walker, director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Experi-ment station. Financed by contributions of sugar su-gar companies . in the United states and its territories, the foundation conducts research on sugar and its uses, including the uses of by-products of sugar production pro-duction and manufacturing, Dr. Heckett said. The foundation functions by making grants-in-aid to colleges and universities to support research re-search in experiments of sugar and its uses. At he college Dr. Heckett obtained ideas to assist him in his studies and investigated investi-gated experiments already being carried on at USAC to determine whether certain other projects might be conducted there. Among the investigations di- rectly related to the work of the foundation which particularly in. terested Dr. Heckett were the studies of vitamin content of sugar su-gar beets and all by-products including in-cluding beet tops, pulp, and molasses. Related to studies of the foundation founda-tion has been research on the nutritional inadequacy of beet molasses rations for swine conducted con-ducted by Russell A. Rasmussen, research associate professor of animal husbandry; Harry H. Smith extension animal husbandman; Ralph W. Phillips, former research re-search professor of animal husbandry hus-bandry and now senior animal husbandman in charge of genetics investigations, U. S. Bureau of Aiiimals Industry; and Tony J. Cunha, former research assistant of the Utah Experiment station.) Results of the study were pub-1 lished in an experiment station bulletin in 1942. Dr. J. E. Greaves and C. T. Hirst of the bacteriology and biochemistry bio-chemistry department at USAC have conducted experiments on the chemical composition of sugar beet leaves and crowns during the past years. These investigations gained national prominence when the results appeared in the June and July editions of "Soil Science." |