Evening star., 1927-09-25

"N HE Agriculture department is
packing up a goodly number
of its prize exhibits. bag and
4 baggage, and transporting them
to New York City for A week
or 50. determined to show the Goth
amites what the Government scien
lists have been accomplishing during
the past two years in the fields of
chemistry and chemical engineering.
The occasion is the United States
Department of Agriculture exhibit at
the Eleventh Exposition of Chemical
Industries, TO be held at the Grand
Central Palace September 26 to Octo-
Der / inclusive. According to w. A.
Noel of the Bureau of Chemistry and
Soils, who is arranging the exhibit,
the department has reserved more
than LOO square feet of floor space
and promises to reveal some striking
chemical developments.
The exhibit will not be so highly
| technical that the average man will
| fail to comprehend it's fundamental
| points Of interest. To be sure, one
may expect the scientists to be there
with their ultra technical, critical eyes.
But just as much enjoyment and in
struction will be gained by the house
wife, the farmer. the sugar grower
and the manufacturer For. after all.
1t is for them that the Government
chemistry experts are working - to-
ward the general end of improving
the home. farm and factory.
One exhibit will show how the farm
er must cooperate with the housewife
If he expects her to make really first
rate bread. If the farmer applies good
fertilizer to wheat at it's heading time
the result is substantial increase in
the proportion of protein or gluten.
! The increase sometimes amounts to
as high as 30 to so per cent. House
| wives may examine the superior bread
resulting from the use of flour made
from this high gluten wheat.
At another booth the housewife
may taste crackers covered with cane
cream. new sugar-cane by-product
developed by the Bureau of Chemistry.
1t is so popular in the Southern States
that Northern cookery experts are
studying it with view toward max
ing 1t an important supplement to
maple syrup, molasses and sugar. In
addition to being excellent as a spread
and as sirup, cane cream makes a
good. readymade cake icing. Brown.
and semi-solid in consistency, it is the
product of the third milling of cane
and. contains all the fundamental food
|
what collodial materials might have
been ousted in the boiling down proc
ess of Skimming. The Government
believes cane cream will i'm time make
an excellent and cheap substitute for
the popular sugar products.
one of the most novel exhibits on
food concerns the remarkable. recent
progress i'm the Louisiana district in
regard to the dehydration of fruits
and vegetables. Government experts
are endeavoring to prove that con-
trary to popular belief. dehydrated
food is just as nutritious. far cheaper.
and almost equally as palatable as
the newly picked varieties. Take
dehydrated vegetable soup for in
stance. 1t sells in the dry form for
81 pound, yet one pound is equal
to 10 pounds of fresh vegetables.
Another point empha sized by the
Government is that dehydration means
the elimination of the ma jor part of
the nuisance and expense of food
preparation. There is no rot, no peel
ing and trimming
A moth and insect eradication dis
play will feature a new fumigant
which has the advantage of being
non -burnabla, non-eXploSiVe, non-in-
, furious to stored commodities and not
dangerous to human life, although
about five times as poisonous TO in
sects as carbon tetrachloride. The
, cost of a gallon Is slightly more than
ISL The materials to he treated are
placed In a carefully joined closet or