Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-15 | Page 3 | Corncobs Used in Producing Many Dyes

jGORNCOBSUSED IN PiDUGi m QYES Chemist Discovers Methods For Making Vivid Green as Well as Brown and Blue ST. LOUIS, April 11. Speakers at today's session of the convention of ,lhe American Chemical society said corncobs can be utilized in producing dyes, and that efforts were being made to obtain a sugar substitute from malt syrup. Experiments arc being made into the feasibility of substituting wood pulpfor cotton, it wa3 explains, with a view of reducing the cost of cotton material. This pulp already is being used as a .substitute for cotton in the manufacture of explosives, It was said. Dr. C. O. Johns of the department of agriculture explained that "navy" and lima beans arc good foods for! maintaining strength and reiioving bodily fatigue, but that adilski,- soy ! a:'.-! lining beans, Chinese produces, j ,--nd peanuts promote bodily growth I in addition to maintaining strength. ! Dyes of a "vivid green," as wll as the brown and blue vat dyes, are -the latest discoveries found in the humble corncob, according to Dr. K. P. 'Monroe 'Mon-roe of the United States bureau of chemistry. It recently has been discovered, he amplified, that furfural, a rare and expensive chemical u.cd as the base of some dyes, can be obtained by boiling the cobs in sodium phosphate for two hours. By the process, he said, the price of furfural, i 1 7 a pound, can be reduced to 15 cents.