"Glucose," by Geo. W. Rolfe (Scientific American Supplement, May 15 or November 6, 1915, and in Boger's "Industrial Chemistry").
On making ethyl alcohol from wood, see Bulletin No. 110, Special Agents' Series, Department of Commerce (10 cents), and an article by F.W. Kressmann in Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, July 15, 1916. On the manufacture and uses of industrial alcohol the Department of Agriculture has issued for free distribution Farmer's Bulletin 269 and 424, and Department Bulletin 182.
On the "Utilization of Corn Cobs," see Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Nov., 1918. For John Winthrop's experiment, see the same Journal, Jan., 1919.
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President Scherer's "Cotton as a World Power" (Stokes, 1916) is a fascinating volume that combines the history, science and politics of the plant and does not ignore the poetry and legend.
In the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for 1916 will be found an interesting article by H.S. Bailey on "Some American Vegetable Oils" (sold separate for five cents), also "The Peanut: A Great American Food" by same author in the Yearbook of 1917. "The Soy Bean Industry" is discussed in the same volume. See also: Thompson's "Cottonseed Products and Their Competitors in Northern Europe" (Part I, Cake and Meal; Part II, Edible Oils. Department of Commerce, 10 cents each). "Production and Conservation of Fats and Oils in the United States" (Bulletin No. 769, 1919, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture). "Cottonseed Meal for Feeding Cattle" (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmer's Bulletin 655, free). "Cottonseed Industry in Foreign Countries," by T.H. Norton, 1915 (Department of Commerce, 10 cents). "Cottonseed Products" in Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, July 16, 1917, and Baskerville's article in the same journal (1915, vol. 7, p. 277). Dunstan's "Oil Seeds and Feeding Cakes," a volume on British problems since the war. Ellis's "The Hydrogenation of Oils" (Van Nostrand, 1914). Copeland's "The Coconut" (Macmillan). Barrett's "The Philippine Coconut Industry" (Bulletin No. 25, Philippine Bureau of Agriculture). "Coconuts, the Consols of the East" by Smith and Pope (London). "All About Coconuts" by Belfort and Hoyer (London). Numerous articles on copra and other oils appear in U.S. Commerce Reports and Philippine Journal of Science. "The World Wide Search for Oils" in The Americas (National City Bank, N.Y.). "Modern Margarine Technology" by W. Clayton in Journal Society of Chemical Industry, Dec. 5, 1917; also see Scientific American Supplement, Sept. 21, 1918. A court decision on the patent rights of hydrogenation is given in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for December, 1917. The standard work on the whole subject is Lewkowitsch's "Chemical Technology of Oils, Fats and Waxes" (3 vols., Macmillan, 1915).
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A full account of the development of the American Warfare Service has been published in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in the monthly issues from January to August, 1919, and an article on the British service in the issue of April, 1918. See also Crowell's Report on "America's Munitions," published by War Department. Scientific American, March 29, 1919, contains several articles. A. Russell Bond's "Inventions of the Great War" (Century) contains chapters on poison gas and explosives.
Lieutenant Colonel S.J.M. Auld, Chief Gas Officer of Sir Julian Byng's army and a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, has published a volume on "Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare" (George H. Doran Co.).