The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
GERMANS SNATCH FROM
 THE ATMOSPHERE
Epoch Making Discovery of Chemists is Heralded By
 Kiel Professor.
GETS
 STARTLING LETT FER
Tells How Scientists Devel- op Synthetic Food From
 Thin Air,

Dr. Herman Duesing of this city has received from his brother, Prof Dues ing, of KieI, Germany, letter giving some details regarding the use of chemical composition of the synthetic food, developed by German chemists, of which news has from time to time leaked into this country. For a number of years chemists have tried to take nitrogen from the airy for the purpose of making fertilizers, in which nitrogen is a, costly, but neces- sary element.
 The air is composed of oxygen, an active gas, which is diluted with n1- trogen. a very inert gas, but impor- tant in many places in natures econ omy.
 It seems, according to Prof, Dues ing, that the German chemists have a commercial basis, so that fertilizer can be plentifully used.
 Says Dr. Duesing of the new food stuff: "A scientific institute for chem ica1 research in Berlin has a means by which FHutterhefe, a highly concen- trated feeding material, @is produced artihcia1Iy. This food contains over 50 per cent. of a1burnen. What this means will be realized when it is re- 1nembered that the best beef contains only 20 per cent Of aIbumen-
 The food is prod6ced, pr. Duesing
 
 nium sulphate and beet sugar.
 The beets being produced by artif- ciaI fertilizer, the nitrogenous content of which is taken from the air, and the ammonium su1phate obtaining it nitrogen also from the air, the German chemists feel Justified in saying that the new food is literally taken from the air, although other processes in tervene.
 A synthetic aIbumen has been the dream of chemists. The albumens are essential to building up the animal obdy. In all cases they. contain the elements of carbon, hydrogen, nitro- gen, sulphur and oxygen, but the ar rangement of these materials differs somewhat in aIbumens of various types.
 The new food is not, for the present at least, being fed direct to men and women, but is fed to animals, so that the benefit to the food supply remains indirect But the process of obtain l ing food, in a densely settled country like Germany, would be enormously sim plifed, if the FNutterhefes should produce the results expected of it. In his letter Dr. ~Duesing speaks of other matters interesting to Germans, as follows:
 Tt is also very Interesting that the savings banks in Germany report great increase. The phenomenal SIC SOoHo O1 L14O IdSlSSt WAT 1Odn IS OnIy que Ito the financial strength of Germany France reported that from January 1 to April 10, the difference between the deposits and the drawings amounted te A, ,065,088 francs.
 ''The German government reports, that by August Is, after the harvest of the new crops,i 1000, 600 bags of flour, each containing 220 pounds, will be left over. This means a surplus of bread Tor one month, when it is not needed any more. Certainly a remarkable thing for a nation, cut off from the whole world
 'HThe German and Austrian Red Cross have received each one four motor ambulances, donated by the students of Harvard and Yale univer- sites. The Austrian government has com
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