| Show no end to wonders dehydration packs tasteful dinner into vest pocket field crops are source of plastics drying removes water and air from produce while retaining nutritional values cull potatoes into fuel alcohol milk ilk now note turned into kitchen curtains american agriculture will emerge from the war with a new pattern of crop production that will not only g give ive us everything we eat and wear but provide much of the raw materials used in industry during world war I 1 the emphasis was on the production of cereal real crops today although cereals are essentially necessary heavier emphasis is being placed on dairy products meats vegetables eggs and oils if the present trend continues american milk goals in the reconstruction period will be double our present output of billion pounds a year the nations farms will be permanently producing more meat and eggs more vegetables and more oil yielding crops such as soybeans two developments are credited with adding impetus to the new farm production trend both have been spurred by scientific research and the necessity of meeting wartime problems one is dehydration or the dry preservation of food the other is or the science of transforming farm crops into industrial products dehydration is a not new in t fact it I 1 is as ancient as the a sun that has been drying the water out of things far cor ages age but to the old III 1 demyd a tion I 1 processes lite esse have been bcd added nev a techniques that have a so revolutionized its future possibilities that some economists predict that food dehydration plants may become as c common in agricultural are areas s 5 as canneries c and conden gooden senes series a are re today an idle idie dream you say not so sit icell idle perhaps when it liff is lemund consid g ered if that at there are more than an dehydration plants in the un united led states today compared with only five in 1940 J B IA ackoff of the agricultural marketing administration r recently ont ty estimated that the united states will dehydrate le vegetables eatables at the rate of million to million pounds in 1143 1943 as compared with million pounds in 1942 yet last years year s totals were sever seven times time the 1940 volume to meet the 1943 44 dehydrated food requirements as presently known he added will require every y clr third egg and one out of eve every r y 12 2 p pounds of whole milk produced d requirements for dehydrated meat practically practically non nonexistent existent a bear 5 ear ago will be approximately 60 million pounds 1 in 1943 dehydration sales sacs shipping the remarkable im impetus pellas given dehydration grew out at ej of a shortage of shipping space cans and containers 1 to meet set lend lead lease demands slid the fhe food requirements of our fighting all allies a a one ship loaded with dehydrated food can carry upward of 10 times time as much food as a ship funded with bulk food improvements in dehydration te technique have followed follow pd two major trends one has be been a to compress the food into an incredibly small page the other has been to preserve the food a palatability and nutritional value many foods normally average 9 90 0 per cent water dehydration a as a originally practiced meant removing most of the water aster now the food is not only deha deh but de b bulked u aked as well by having the air pressed out of it the result is food c compressed ed into blocks or bri queues thus it is possible to have a vest pocket serving of meat carrots I 1 0 a cabbage bb age milk and eggs egg that would provide all 11 the elements elemen ta a a of f a h hearty early meal and yet take up no more shipping room than a package of cigarettes typical food volume reductions as a result of dehydration 1 and com A wo the scientist teams up with villa the farmer in ushering in new era of agricultural production are a sauer auer krut kraut 10 per cent ca cabbage b base 80 per cent potatoes 75 per cent onion oman beets and carrots 65 pit per r c cent nt egg 9 powder 50 per c cent nt hamburger 50 per cent dehydrated soups 50 per cent one pound of potato bricks yields 24 hellings helpings hel pings s A f five iv a gallon go mamer container of dr dried ad t tomatoes 0 ata e swells to a quarter of a ton when water is added do dehydrated hadr y rate d foods food flav flavorful 11 As cont contrasted rusted with their crude r de both than predecessors of world rid war r I 1 t today a a dehydrated foods are flavor ful dunked bunked and cooked k it no in water wil these foods enner emerge with alums almost no sacrifice e of f f flavor r and with preen sa of ladof cally a ll no 0 I 1 loss a a of pro proteins tenni s carbohydrates y ard ad tru minerals 1 they T suffer r no greater I 1 loss s of vi vitamins than an when occurs w when h en fresh vegetables e ge tables stan stand d for a time in a store hence it is no surprise that american soldiers can relish scrambled eggs made from a dehydrated powder or thit that englishmen eat and like meat loaves and stews that crossed the atlantic as tiny shreds of dried meat thus milk butter butte citrus juices juice as well as potatoes t S chast other peas spinach and aad a host 71 of other food products are being successfully dehydrated the extent to which dehydration has already caught hold with the civilian population here in america is indicated by the fact that house wives are buying dehydrated soups P at the rate of million packs packages a year if dehydration offers challenging possibilities for far future farm mark markets et then its industrial c min coun 4 jt I 1 I 1 i it core from the field is manufactured into a substitute far told quick drying ink or a wallpaper do it tr afo r m ang magic of chemor ay or thanks to the new of science it a compressed to only a fraction of its weight and shipped a armed forces overseas to feed ter part t offers even more interesting opportunities rt iti es ast as a contributor to te to lu ture if farm I 1 p prosperity r lp already the products of 40 million ace acres es of american farm ion land indig are go ing into our industrial plants and this is but the beginning alto already s dy c chemical her engineers have come to think h of all america as an indus 11 trial iran farm and of farm products prodie is as the raw materials for factories perhaps the classic example of a effort to turn farm crops into vitally needed in industrial da u trial pro products dues lies in the field of syn rubber it took the world a century to raise the production of crude rubber to a billion tons a year the united states now ex peels to develop a like capacity for synthetic rubber much of it is made from corn and other farm p products r the next year and a half the chemurgic scientist imly buy among his test tubes performs such ug h miracles as turning milk into k kitch tell on en curtains earn corn into a tol tinfoil to l sub an statute sunflowers sun flowers into p paper sor or shorn into insulating boa board r d barley and sweet potatoes into ethyl alcohol furfural made from oat cat hulls is now being used in oil refining and in the pro processing cessin g of wood resin 1 at anti I 1 freeze fluids and nd fuel a alcohol 0 h 1 come from cull potatoes gly glycerol e r from animal fats is being used in the production of d dynamite arauto it f for or war purposes then I 1 there here is zero zem a protein product of corn starch t a r c K which lends itself to the manufacture f niara of yarn buttons we wall a paper coating and quick drying ink soybean source I 1 of plastics plastic in the field of plastics gluten a residue of corn is b being g effectively gant 1 pad use used as is casern e a b by y product of milk I 1 but t par perhaps h ps th the b biggest gest co contribution tribu trib ution tj a n to plastics p I 1 t in is I 1 being b m made m d by soybeans thanks to soybeans the automobile of the future may be grown from the soil already gear shift ha handles n adles steering wheels window frames distributors distributor and a c considerable sid erable variety of other othe r parts a are re made of soybeans the basic molding material for numerous plastics is a soybean compound thus thu r radio d c shingle cabinets and plumbing fixtures ure in P postwar america may be merely merely a mol mold d of 11 soybean cakes afe yes e farms can be made the source a of f our r future prosperity scientists and d industrialists can get flarin farm materials als from which to make new commodities a mine d atles and promote increased factory P production r from which prope rity sp springs r m in this era c of f definitely new agricultural development one factor will loom big in determining success or failure that factor is productivity of the soil for far the extent to which our r fr farms a can a continue u to Y yield e d shenew hemr m crops PS fr for the new dehydration de industry d for chemurgic utilization into industrial du products or to help feed the world in an the critical poa in ar P period will depend on the fei fertility of the soil that produces those crops cent agricultural research expert of baltimore md in a an a add address ress before a farm chemurgic mg g conference once said chemor or can succeed only on farm land where plant foods are returned to the soil in III the form of commercial fertilizer at a rate wh which h at least t balances the am amount t re removed at e each year by growing crops and livestock one of the significant steps forward he added is that which helps the farmer learn an more re about his particular sod and its plant load food needs state agricultural experiment t stations fall are I 1 prepared rep are I 1 I 1 to assist a former farmers not at only in an soil I 1 le tests ats to deter determine ile the P proper fertilizer an analyses for far var various us crops but or also inform them on at the the placement to in insure best results the importance of mr me S Sau chellis belh observations bjerva n ions is evident when it I 1 is considered that after the war america will be faced with the greatest soil rehabilitation job in its history this ims is III because because vast wartime farm prod production notion d demands are draining fertility tili t ly resources on an an unprecedented sea scale t a and because fertilizer applications at present cannot balance the depletion rate gri growing ing or crops P a to win in the he war is a ot of course I 1 the farmers conar no a I 1 job iob lia said d I a statement of 1 the 1 middle west S III to addle boil im improvement t committee tte A heavy I 1 draft on the farmer a a savings v ings account of of P plant lant fool elements t I 1 is a relatively ly small ami contribution to vict victory r if steps step or are made to rep repay Y the borrowed so sou wealtha wealth marlito when I 1 the war is over |
