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Show No End to Wonders! Dehydration Packs Clean Seeds Failure to clean and treat farm seeds before planting time is responsible for most of the bad weed infestations that cut down yields on thousands of acres of farming land. Tasteful Dinner Into Vest Pocket; Field Crops Are Source of Plastics Drying Remoms footer and Air From Produce While Retaining Nutritional Values; Milk Now Turned Into Kitchen Curtains Cull Potatoes Into Fuel Alcohol ; American agriculture will emerge from the war with a new terpart, offers even more interesting pattern of crop production that will not only give us everything opportunities as a contributor to fuwe eat and wear, but provide much of the raw materials used in ture farm prosperity. industry. Already the products of 40 million Plan Schools of Soil For Young Workers Specific Farm Skills Row Being Developed high school Training of students for wartime farm work has During World War I, the emphasis was on the production of acres of American farm land are go- two objectives, according to the plan ing into our industrial plants. And announced by the U. S. department cereal crops. Today, although cereals are essentially is but the beginning. Already of necessary, agriculture. heavier emphasis is being placed on dairy products, meats, vege-table-s, this chemical engineers have come to One is to familiarize these young eggs and oils. If the present trend continues, American milk think of all America as an indus- people with rural and farm life, farm and of farm products as and the other to provide training goals in the reconstruction period will be double our present out- trial in specific farm skills. put of 122 billion pounds a year. The nations farms will be perma- the raw materials for factories. Classes in farm work are being Perhaps the classic example of nently producing more meat and eggs, more vegetables and more effort to turn farm given in schools throughout the chemurgys crops such as soybeans. crops into vitally needed industrial country this spring, so that the Two developments are credited with adding to the new products lies in the field of syn- farmers valuable time will not have impetus farm production trend. Both have been spurred by scientific re- thetic rubber. It took the world a to be used to teach young workers to raise the production of their job when they are supposed search and the necessity of meeting wartime problems. One is century crude rubber to a billion tons a to be helping him. He will be redehydration, or the dry preservation of food. The other is y, trainyear. The United States now ex- sponsible only for or the science of transforming farm crops into industrial pects to develop a like capacity for ing where individual requirements synthetic rubber much of it is made demand it, or special processes are products. from corn and other farm products involved. not is new. In fact, Dehydration within the next year and a half. Among the jobs being taught it is as ancient as the sun that has are cleaning dairy barns, brushThe chemurgic scientist busy been drying the water out of things ing cows, whitewashing building among his test tubes performs such for ages. But to the old dehydramiracles as turning milk into kitchinteriors, milking, pitching hay, tion processes have been added new en curtains; corn into a tinfoil subharnessing and driving horses, techniques that have so revolutionoperating tractors, and machinstitute; sunflowers into paper; sor ized its future possibilities, that into ery repair. Some of these may ghum some economists predict that food insulating board; barley sound simple, but the departand alcosweet into potatoes ethyl dehydration plants may become as of agriculture points out ment hol. common in agricultural areas as that each has its little technique Furfural made from oat hulls is canneries and condenseries are tothat makes the difference benow being used in oil refining anc day. An idle dream, you say? Not tween an efficient piece of work in the processing of wood resin so idle, perhaps, when it is considand one that is slipshod. e fluids and fuel alcohol ered that there are more than 200 Other jobs for the young will income from cull potatoes. Glycerol dehydration plants in the United from animal fats is being used in clude hoeing, weeding, picking fruit States today, compared with only the production of dynamite for and berries, harvesting sugar beets, five in 1940. war purposes. Then there is Zein, feeding chickens, gathering eggs, J. B. Wyckoff, of the Agricultural a protein product of corn starch and for some of the girls assistadministration Marketing recently which lends itself to the manufac- ing Mrs. Farmer with the cookestimated that the United States will ture of ing, dishwashing, scrubbing, sweepyarn, buttons, dehydrate vegetables at the rate of g and ink. ing and dusting that are the KP coating 350 to 400 million pounds in 1943 as The scientist teams up with the of the farm army. Soybean Source of Plastics. compared with 100 million pounds in farmer in ushering in new era of The training program is primarily 1942. In the field of plastics, gluten, a to be the Yet last years totals were agricultural production. of the U. S. seven times the 1940 volume. residue of corn, is being effectively Office of responsibility Education and the state as is casein, a of To meet the 1943-4- 4 dehydrated pression are: sauer kraut, 90 per used, departments of education in other food requirements as presently cent; cabbage, 80 per cent; pota milk. But perhaps the biggest con- words, the responsibility of the pubknown, he added, will require ev- toes, 75 per cent; onion, beets and tribution to plastics is being made lic schools from coast to coast soybeans. Thanks to soybeans, Where possible, the farming activiery third egg, and one out of every carrots, 65 per cent; egg powder, by 50 per cent; hamburger, 50 per cent; the automobile of the future may be ties will be conducted on farms or 12 pounds of whole milk produced. from the soil. Already, gear in real situations. Requirements for dehydrated meat, dehydrated soups, 50 per cent. One grown shift 24 handles, of bricks steering wheels, winyields potato In each community it is planned a year ago, pound practically n container of dow frames, distributors and a con- to bring before the prospective will be approximately 60 million helpings. A dried tomatoes swells to a quarter siderable variety of other parts are young workers speakers such as pounds in 1943. made of soybeans. The basic moldof a ton when water is added. vocational agriculture farmers, Dehydration Saves Shipping. ing material for numerous plastics teachers, farm labor specialists of Flavorful. Foods Dehydrated The remarkable impetus given deis a soybean compound. Thus radio the U. S. employment service, repAs contrasted with their crude cabinets and hydration grew out of a shortage of plumbing fixtures in resentatives of agricultural colleges toWar World of I, shipping space, cans and containers, predecessors postwar America may be merely a and of farm organizations, county e to meet demands and the days dehydrated foods are flavor- mold of soybean cakes. agents, and others who can speak food requirements of our fighting ful. Dunked and cooked in water, Yes, farms can be made the authoritatively on the many phases Allies. One ship loaded with de- these foods emerge with almost no source of our future prosperity. Sci- of farm work. Local facilities such hydrated food can carry upward of sacrifice of flavor and with practi- entists and industrialists can get as public markets, milk plants and 10 times as much food as a ship cally no loss of proteins, carbohyfarm materials from which to fruit storage plants also will be utiloaded with bulk food. drates, and minerals. They suffer new commodities and promotemake inlized. loss of vitamins than no creased Improvements in dehydration whengreater from production group training will be factory occurs when fresh vegetables which prosperity springs. technique have followed two major stand for a time in a store. carried on where it is found desirtrends. One has been to compress In this era of definitely new agri- able. It will be given by a teacher Hence it is no surprise that Amerthe food into an incredibly small cultural development, one factor will of vocational agriculture or some space. The other has been to pre- ican soldiers can relish scrambled loom big in determining success or other approved individual. serve the foods palatability and nu- eggs made from a dehydrated pow- failure. That factor is productivity der. Or that Englishmen eat and of the soil. For the extent tritional value. to which stews and that loaves Agriculture Many foods normally average 90 like meat our can to yield farms continue as tiny shreds per cent water. Dehydration as crossed the Atlantic for new industhe in dehydration milk, butter, cropsfor originally practiced meant remov- of dried meat.asThus chemurgic utilization into intry, as well potatoes, citrus juices, Industry ing most of the water. Now the dustrial products or to help feed peas, spinach and a host of other the world in the critical postwar pefood is not only dehydrated but C. WEED FLORENCE By as well, by having the air food products are being successfully riod, will depend on the fertility of the soil that produces those crops. pressed out of it. The result is food dehydrated. Melons The extent to which dehydration compressed into blocks or briVincent Sauchelli, agricultural requettes. Thus it is possible to have has already caught hold with the ci- search expert of Baltimore, the American public Each year, Md., in a serving of meat, car- vilian population here in America an address before a Farm Chemdrinks about 80,000,000 gallons of rots, cabbage, milk and eggs that is indicated by the fact that housecanned fruit juices, excluding cider. conference once said: Chemwould provide all the elements of a wives are buying dehydrated soups urgic can succeed This habit has salvaged thousands on farm land only urgy hearty meal and yet take up no at the rate of 100 million packages where plant foods are returned to of tons of fruit which otherwise more shipping room than a package a year. the soil in the form of commercial would be wasted. of cigarettes. If watermelon juice can be marIf dehydration offers challenging fertilizer at a rate which at least farm markets, balances the amount removed each keted as a beverage, as some enTypical food volume reductions possibilities for futureindustrial coun- believe, this might open a as a result of dehydration and com- - then chemurgy, its year by growing crops and live- thusiasts new market for food which now stock. has no use. Tons of watermelons One of the significant steps forgrown for seed, leaving quantihe is that which are added, ward, of waste which is now a total ties helps the farmer learn more about loss. The rind of surplus waterhis particular soil and its plant food melons may be used for sweet needs. State agricultural experibut pickling varieties with ment stations are prepared to as- pickles, thick rinds are grown especially for sist farmers not only in soil tests this purpose. Some surplus is used to determine the proper fertilizer for stock feed and some unharvestanalyses for various crops, but also ed watermelons are plowed under inform them on the placement to as fertilizer. insure best results. Studies are being made to find The importance of Mr. Sauchellis out the possibilities of extractobservations is evident when it is ing oil from watermelon seeds. considered that after the war AmerAbout 61,000,000 watermelons ica will be faced with the greatest are marketed each year and ansoil rehabilitation job in its history. other 2,000,000 are left unharThis is because vast wartime farm vested because of adverse market conditions. production demands are draining fertility resources on an unprecedented Cantaloupes and other muskmelons scale and because fertilizer appli- are raised entirely for the fresh cations at present cannot balance fruit market. The only market for the depletion rate. the surplus crop and the culls is as Growing crops to win the war is, stock feed and fertilizer and about of the entire crop is wasted. of course, the farmers No. 1 job, In Colorado, alone, an average of said a statement of the Middle West A 1,000,000 pounds of cantaloupe are Soil Improvement Committee. savon the harvested each year for seed and draft farmers heavy seed raisers have no way of getings account of plant food elements is a relatively small contribution to ting rid of the melon waste. Exvictory, if proper steps are made to periments are under way to find repay the borrowed soil wealth when methods for drying muskmelons for cattle feed- . the war is over. non-far- m Sources of Vitamin C Citrus fruits and tomatoes are important sources of vitamin C. Other sources are kale, cabbage, spinach and other green vegetables, and white and sweet potatoes baked or boiled in their jackets. 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