Show Agriculture in Industry By FLORENCE C. WEED Cereal Straws time is coming when the farmer will become the supplier of the materials used in This forecast was made by the late Francis P. first president of the Chemical Foundation Cereal straws arc a fine example of the industrial possibilities of farm For they have been used in making paper and more recently in making fiber Most of the 84 million tons of straw is produced in North Indiana and Wheat straw is the most important industrially and about tons are used for paper and paper board each Wheat straw yields the best quality product although some rye and barley straw may be combined with wheat without altering the One problem is that of collecting it economically from individual Straw has a long history as a paper making material being first used in Germany in In the United States the first straw paper was made in 1828 by William Ma-gaw of The industry still continues in this country and science has developed several improved pulping methods to lower costs and improve the |