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Show j Use for Surplus Crops Studies are being planned by the i federal government for new outlets for surplus crops, it has been an-. an-. nounced by Dr. Henry G. Knight of i the department of agriculture. It is j planned to put 200 scientist to work dairy products, apples, vegetables1 Tvhite potatoes, animal fats, hides, tHilns and legther, Expanding the ' uses of nicotine from tobacco will i be one of the important researches. Nicotine is highly toxic to insect life and is useful both as iTconTaci 'Insecticide and stomach poison, , Knight said. New uses for apple surplus, such as the development of an apple juice, new dried-apple j products, pectin, cuticle wax, seed oil and residual pulp of apples, are being studied. |