Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-09-20
Farm Relief Through Chemistry.

From the Washington Post.
From Minneapolis, where the 18th
meeting OF the American Chemical Society
has been in session for several days, come
reports OF important discoveries in the
field OF chemical research, the latest of
which upsets the old belief that HYDROGEN
gas is an element. DR.. Bohnhoeffer, de-
scribed as shy blond young German, who
was l7-year-old infantryman In 'front.'
line trenches at the close of the World
War. Is the discOverer. This young sci
enlist appears to have found way to split
up this gas. feat which septuaGenaran
scientists have never dreamed to be posi-
BILE. Bohnhoeffer gave an ocular demon
stration Of his discovery. and according to
another scientist in attendance upon the
meeting. ut is the first tangible proof of
the existence In supposedly indivisable
molecules OF what we may call different
kind of molecule." The discovery is of
great Importance in the new world OF syn
thetic chemistry, which changes petroleum
into coal and coal into gasoline" FL
OF greater importance to the public GEN.
orally. however. is the discovery reported
from the University of Illinois, where DE-.
A. M. Boswell. professor of sanitary chem
/
successful experiments for the purpose of
finding new uses for cornstalEs and other
vegetable wastes rich in cellulose. These
chemists have succeeded in producing a
valuable fuel gas through a simple process of
combining ordinary sewage with shredded
c0rnstalks, without the use of either heat or
any appliance, other than a steel tank.
In describing the results of the expert
ments DIR. Boswell told the delegates that
the material for the manufacture of the
| GAS is simply dried c0rnstalks, after husk-
ing, which are stepped in water or soaked
in lime. A tank 8 feet in diameter and
feet deep holds sufficient gas from this
shredded waste matter, into which has
been piped the the ordinary sewage from
the farm house, to supply family of five
persons with fuel gas for cooking. The dis
cOverers further suggested that circle OF
| land in the corn belt 8 miles in diameter,
combined with the sewage of city of 3d.
| 900 population. would produce enough gas
to supply the entire needs of that city.
And "since the corn borer lives over the
winter in the stalks, any process which re-
moves the corn stalk from the field. will
aid in control Of the borer"
Not only can the despised corn stalks
thus be made to do the cooking for the
Out IL dlSO PROMISES u
solve the problem Of household refrgera-
tion; for, as DR.. Boswell explains, Besides
methane (the fuel gas) the principal gas
seous product is carbon dioxide, which is
now finding wide commercial use as dry
ice."
The Federal Farm Board should look to
its machinery. Otherwise chemistry may
get far ahead Of il in providing farm relief.
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