The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-04-19
GREAT DISCOVERY
BY SCIENTISTS
PRACTICALLY 100 PER CENT. OF
THE WORLDS ORANGE CROP
CAN BE USED IN COM
MERGE.
SAVESIMPORTANT ELEMENTS
More Than 100000 Worth of. Or.
anses Are Lost Each Year in
Florida and California.

at the University of Pittsburg, practi-
cally 100 per cent. of the worlds or
ange crop can be utilized in COM
merce. After few months work the
chemists at the university have sue
ceeded in preserving the pure juices
of citrus fruits without the use of ar
tificial and injurious personalities.
rom the fragrant blossoms that adorn
the blushing brides couture, the last
neglected seed in the "cull' every
thing in the orange henceforth will
serve man. Instead of allowing one
third of the great crops to rot upon
the ground, no element in this favor
lite fruit will be lost.
The research at the university will
be of great advantage in ice cream
making, confectionery and in baking.
The process followed in the preserv-
ing of the orange juice requires little
expense, and the pure juice and ex-
tracts can be had at cost little in
advance of the artificial connections
now oXered to the trade.
Fellowships established at the uni
versity under the direction Of Dr.
Robert Kennedy Duncan called for
the expenditure of almost 100000 in
industrial research, and among these
sum of $4,000 year for two years
has been donated pending the investi-
CATION of the means of utilizing or
ange "culls" and other citrus fruits,
including the grapefruit and lemons
In addition to the subscription of ST.
600 year large additional consid
Grafton is offered for the successful
application of the experiments.
Fruit Growers Benefited.
Realizing the immense advantages
to Pittsburg manufacturers in having
the problems worked out in the labo-
ratories, the Pittsburg Industrial De
velopment commission and the re-
search department of the University
of Pittsburg have cooperated in the
enterprise, which means an immeas-
urable benefit to the commercial
world. The advantages of the re-
search will accrue not only to the
fruit growers of Florida and Cali
fornia and other parts of the world,
but to manufacturers of oils, flavor
ing extracts, confectionery, medical
preparations, etc.
One of the results of the investi-
CATION likely will be the satisfactory
preservation of pure orange juice in
manner not conflicting with the
state and Federal pure food and drug
acts. The summer girl, who always
awaits a new beverage, will hail with
delight and enthusiastic patronage an
orange drink offered with sciences
seal of rich favor and genuine purity.
1t seems now that in the Pittsburg
laboratory a real "orangeade" has
been discovered.
A dozen oranges of average size will
produce a quart of juice. Selling this
at cents a glass would bring prof
it equal to that made off a dozen good
oranges, aside from the revenue to be
derived from the extraction of the
various oils, aldehydes and terpenses
in the rinds and the seeds.
Loss Has Been Heavy.
The orange Gull" as all shippers
and fruit dealers we'll know, is not
fruit which has shown decay. The
Gull" may be of inferior size or-show
a slight bruise, but in all other re-
spects be just as good for commercial
purposes as the "a No. 1" quality. At
present the difference between the
No. brand and the "culls' repre-.
sents almost total loss. Here is
bulletin recently issued by the Unit
ed States government which tells this
story in amazing figures.
Kind of Fruit and Locality.
California, oranges, 2S,S17 cars; val
ue, s2S,317O00; approximate loss,
s424,750: percentage of loss, Is per
cent
California lemons, 4,7S2 cars; val
ne, $4,7S2,OOO; approximate loss, $685.
$50. percentage of loss, rs per cent.
Florida oranges, 100000 boxes
value, s9,OOOOO0; approximate loss,
100000; percentage of loss, per
cent.
In the American possessions and in
tropical countries in other nations the
percentage of loss is still greater. A
bulletin for 1910 from the United
States agricultural experiment sta
ton in Puerto Rico states that from
20 to 25 per cent. of the orange crop
ON the island is lost annually from
decay. Nicholas R. Snyder, Ameri-
can consul at Kingston, Jamaica, re-
ported last year that fully one-third
of the citrus fruit crops in that
beautiful country rot on the ground.
These fruits, Mr.. Snyder declares,
are principally oranges and lemons.
The percentage of losses here esti-
mated result from the neglect of the
"culls." When the crop is picked the
rejected oranges mostly are in good
condition for the fruit press, and the
rinds would yield their rich ingredi-
ents. Thus far the oil in the seeds
has been applied to no general COM
mercial use, but the rind is particu-
larly valuable.
The oil In the orange skin consists
of about 80 per cent. of a terpene
known as a limonene. From the es-
sential oils perfumes, camphor and
other terpene derivatives are extract
ed. The favoring matters of the or
ange are bodies known as the aide
hydes, of which the one in, the or
ange is called ''citral." The method
that has been used for the prepare
ton of orange extracts is to utilize
the entire extract of the skin. After
thorough experiments it is more Gus