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CHEMISTRY TO BE APPLIED TO U. 5. PRODUCTION Plan to Bridge Chasm Between Scientific Discovery and Practical Use. SMALL START IS MADE By FREDERICK J. BASKIN. WASHINGTON. Not. 12.—Tbe Government hat at last started in a small way a much-needed enterprise. One bureau in the Department of Agriculture— the Bureau of Chemistry—ls going to turn some of Its discoveries to practical useby finding out their commercial possl- j hllities. and giving the public the benefit of Its research. _• j This means that If the chemists of the sugar experiments laboratory, for Instance, find an Improved method of making cane ayrup the bureau may not, as heretofore, announce the big discovery to the country and then start something elae. Instead, If It seems likely that the new process could be developed profitably by syrup manufacturers, and If there Is a special need for It, chemical engineers of the bureau will take up the matter Data will be obtained to show the con-

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$1.35 Hose, 65c [ Over Thirty-two Tears n This Bam# Location. Imitation wool hose 7I - #*• > JBrSSk for women. Burson -/ 11C ML seamless fashioned, IK. W “Richelieu” weave, good iBI _ Jh Ml weight to bo worn with RjAB Nj Og&g <4 fp| low shoes: heather mix- MT iSSf* mf £2 Jjl IS rure style*. Our regular JtTSk MB* IS EM B^ 11-35 grade, first qnality. |! BJH W Extra special— MLfIHL^MSFjgS 360-370 St. rair, DOC “Come Out of tbe Beaten Path” (Main Floor) mm^m^^^mmm Owf Event Os Great Importance! Sattiirdaiy the Day! HIS sale is the result of recent breaks in ■** ike wholesale market. Not much room for long talks—but the main thing you are interims 1 ested in is that every coat is the latest style, the materials the newest and the workmanship the CSt a * ur( * av gA® day to buy a coat, and | COATS. Bolivia, || suedlne and plush. broini, taupe.* etc/.'. .'jfUp *° $39.50 Dresses ~ AbGb A LOT of about 25 women's dresses that formerly f j " \ -*3. gold up to $39.50. There are satins, messalines, tines, serges and velv v ? * "'.TS S vets. Nicely trimmed y IH H* witji braid, beads and Mm El t embroidered; all sizes Jm tyrai value Saturday at — A fa

pfl Men’s $lO and sl2 SHOES f The cut of the season! Fine custom-made- shoes for men and young men. ° jr finest a °d highest priced shoes at this 0* Ilow price Saturday. Os vici kid and calf- ' ' skin, in black and dark brown, with Englishand $12.00 models, choice Women’s ~ $6.00 Boots, Women’s Up to $lO Boots, a pr. $4.95 Boys’ Double I $5-95 m b n row C n k!d! rr. Wear Shoes One day only Satur- |.• / lace modtl, .} / One pair will do the service , a> "'° n d erful V • / high or low •{* / of two. English or blucher n ', "omen’s S • I walking j* / shapes, calfskin uppers, with i , cut . lac . e . bo .°. t ;?’ efc ( heels; the U / 1 —-—-double w e a r ! ““ k * in ? co ore< l " a I new fall mod- J* / oak soles i!, 11 ?. °. r ‘T gj \ els- /; / At sifts up to 6 Styhßb - bo f 3 that . re - fe/ X *■ A P. If e>\ at— i resent values up to /\ $4.95 if* $ Q 45 : wwt°hs all sizes f and fi/fj sffg ; $ 5 - 95 cr .. '

dltion of the market, whether a higher price can be obtained for the better product, whether new ..machinery Is needed for.-.the new process, and theVcoet, whether'the project Is .practicable on a small. scale. Equipped' with .facts, .figures, and. perhaps a small working plant where syrup has been successfully made by .the Government process, the bureau Ts in n-position -to furnish help to any one who la interested. DEVELOPMENT WORK BRANCH. The branch of the Bureau of ChemIsty which is to form this liaison between. science and the public is called the office of development work. It was planned by Dr. Carl Alsberg, chief of the Bureau, of Chemistry, who felt that the discoveries of his bureau were not often enough understood by the people who could have made use of them. The trouble was that the bureau had no way of. helping people who were always writing to know if each new process would be a good commercial venture and if so how to go about starting work. To help these business men and manufacturers, and also private citizens who might be interested in the use of a discovery made by the bureau, the,office of development work has been opened. Many of the processes worked out by the Government chemists are practical only on a large scale, In an elaborately equipped plant. But in Borne cases the farm or housewife profits by the chemical experiments. It Is hoped that this may be true In the case of the straw gas experiments now being conducted at the Government

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experimental farm at Arlington, Va. Gus wa* several years ago obtained from straw. During the war England eked out her gasoline supply!/ by attaching bags containing the .straw gas to the top ,of autofoohil* busses. -The difficulty with straw gas can‘be seen right there. ■St has never been satisfactorily reduced .to a compressed liquid. When that Is achieved, and the qualities of gas obtained- from different kifids of straw have been studied and compared the bureau of, chemistry hopes to be able to show the farmer he* to make his own gas for light, beat and power for. stationary engines and tractors. The Government chemical engineers could not, of course, go to every farm and giv* actual assistance In establishing a gas production plant, hut It could furnleh all necessary Information regarding costa, equipment and the product. NEW OFFICE STAFF LIMITED. The office that is to furnish this service Is so new that it has scarcely mapped out Its campaign. It cannot work out the development of all of It* discoveries nor even of all that look promising as 1 commercial propositions. It has a Umtied staff, and works under the special appropriations that are made ifrora time to time by Congress for es- - pertments with syrups, dyes or dehydration. Thus, If the bureau decided to develop its experiments on the uses of the funds for development mu>t come frqm the impropriation under which the corncob exieriments wero made. Corncobs, which aro now usually burned up, furnish a good example of wasted material. Government research

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has shown that a number of products can be mare from corncobs, among them adhesive for fiber board sizing, paper, and a high-grade brown dye which sells for $25 a pound and can be made from cobs for about 15 cents. - Some day the farmer may be able to sell his corncobs for a very good price, but it is not likely that he would ever be able to extract dyojor glue from them bimself, because that la a proposition which demands de■elopment on a fairly large seals to return sufficient profits. It would be ob viously ridiculous for a farmer to collect a few baskets of cobs Into a corner of the barn and try to produce corncob dye to compete with the product of a big, efficiently-run dye factory.' BHOES WEAR OUT BY IMPROPER TANNING. The Bureau of Clfemlstry Is at present working on a number of experiments which, If later developed by Its engineers would be of great service to the country For example, there are the tanning experiments. Farm hides generally sell for considerably less than those put out by big tanneries, because a lot is either not so well-skinned and preserved, or else there are apt to be some carelessly tanned hides, possibly with cuts in thorn, In an otherwise good assortment. Improper tanning partly explains why some shoes wear out so quickly. The Bureau To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Grove’s LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets. The genuine bears the signature of E. W. Grove. 30c.—Advertisement. ____________

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of Chemistry Is making a study of im proved methods of tanning and as a result of its work has got out a bulletin telling how to tan hides. Formerly this wa# as far as the bureau could go. But now, If the office of development work should turn Its attention to tbe bureau’s leather work there wquld be a far be’ttei chance for the Government’s findings to be of practical use to the tanners and to the public. Another line of chemical researcch which has already shown Its results Is the utilization of Inferior grades of citrus fruits. , California ships East only the best oranges and lemons, because prices for cull fruit do not warrant shipping It any distance. to conserve the great quantifies of slightly Imperfect or small fruit hag always been a problem. But now, the California laboratory of the Bureau of ‘Chemistry has shown that by using the peel for marmalade and oil, and the lemons for citric acid, and establishing the business on a large scale, the cull fruit can be utilized. Largely ns a result of Increased interest In conservation of these Imperfect fruits the price of cull oranges and lemons has gone up from $0 to S3O a ton, and four concerns have started to manufacture byproducts of citrus fruit. These are two of the many experiments which the bureau Ts making and which the office of development work could promote with profit to the country. The main difficulty, so often associated with new Government projects, is to get Congress to provide enough money for the work to be really of benefit.

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