Show CORNCOBS PUT TO WOD GOOD USE belief that I 1 they can be madette Ma made dethe the nucleus of a great and profitable industry corneous corncobs Corn cobs agrest a great waste product in the w worlds greatest corn producing nation I 1 have been made toy ro yield leId adhesive gum and other useful substance in q quantities un sufficient e I 1 at to convince chemists of the united states de department I 1 of agriculture that the nucleus s of a profitable and important industry lles lies in this direction tion in addition to adhesive gum ex espera perl merits ments have pr produced 0 deuced cellulose and dose cose both of W which have many mant commercial mercial uses the glucose so produced crystallizes crystallize 5 well and it Is be used in the same ways as crystalline tal glucose from starch manufacture ifune of alcohol by the fermentation of corncob glucose appears appeals practicable it sulphuric acid Is obtainable chea cheaply riV to utilize corncobs corn cobs commercially the chemists b elleve believe a large and costly plant would be necessary wid and the bureau of chemistry does not advise any enterprise of the sorts sort in war time |