Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — Government Experts at Work. [ARTICLE]

Government Experts at Work.

When a cotton .portage was threatened before the armistice, the forest products laboratory of the forest service, United States department of agriculture. entered a practically new field of Investigation—fiading the practicability of using wood pulp as a source of explosives. Methods for the production of acid and sulphate pulp suitable for nitrating were developed, and tests at a government arsenal proved conclusively their suitability for nitration purposes. These results have other applications, particularly in the manufacture of lacquers and pyroxylin products, and the laboratory is continuing Its work along these lines.