OTHER CHEMURGIC PROJECTS 



the acreage in his county from next to nothing to over 

 five hundred acres. 



Down in the Florida Everglades is the newest, biggest 

 project of all: twelve thousand acres and a starch plant 

 to handle seven hundred and fifty tons of potatoes a 

 day. It is backed by the United States Sugar Corpora- 

 tion, it is said, to the limit of six millions. Dr. F. H. 

 Thurber, who was in early charge at Laurel, is helping 

 out technically and here the positive advantages of 

 location are counted upon to provide yields for a large 

 factory. The Everglades soil is rich and moist. A grow- 

 ing season of three hundred days will be utilized to the 

 utmost by staggered plantings. This company goes all 

 out in a new project only after scrupulous scientific in- 

 vestigation. It follows through with thoroughgoing re- 

 search. With ramie and lemongrass which are also being 

 grown here, Clewiston is likely to be written in big 

 capital letters across the South's new chemurgic map. 



In the meantime, a brand-new chemurgic use for 

 sweet potatoes has been found by a Russian-born chem- 

 ist, Dr. Paul Kolachov, who directs the research for the 

 Seagram distilleries in Louisville, Kentucky. That one 

 is not hard to guess, and this exceedingly resourceful 

 scientist reports that sweet potatoes and grain sorghum 

 are both more efficient producers of alcohol than corn. 

 The possibilities of fresh intersectional agricultural up- 

 sets in new uses of old crops is a fascinating specula- 



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