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Show Cornstalk Newspaper What is said to have been the fh'st edition of any newspaper in the world ;o be printed on paper made from cornstalks was issued by the Commercial-News of Danville, 111., one :!ay last month. And it was an edition of 116 pages at that, using 25 ,ons of news print. The paper was produced in Danville by the Corn Products Company, which aas expended $750,000 in the erection of a plant and research laboratory. The process employed is based on that originated by Dr. Bela Dorner, a Hungarian, Hun-garian, with suitable modifications resulting from the labors of Dr. J. E Jackson, an American industrial chemist. chem-ist. While further research and experiments experi-ments will be necessary to bring pro-luction pro-luction of cornstalk paper to the level if that from wood pulp in cost, the technical problems have been practically prac-tically solved and fear of a future paper famine through depletion of corests has been eliminated. How this new industry will benefit 'armers of the corn belt is forecast by one of the men interested in the new wocess, who said: "We can visualize in the years to :ome innumerable comparitively small oulp mills scattered throughout . the ;orn belt, making pulp from cornstalks corn-stalks grown on millions of acres now nonTproducing." Commenting on the matter, Secretary Sec-retary Jardine declared that with the rapid progress being made in technical and commercial procedures a new day is at hand when many agricultural wastes will become sources of profit, not only to the farmer, but to the country at large. |