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FRUIT JUICE IIT CAIIDY FORI.I 



Following is a partial quotation from an article in the January- 

 issue of Hoosier Horticulture. 



"Tremendous expansion in citrus concentrating facilities during 

 the past year will present a serious problem for the industry after the 

 close of the v/ar. V/hile there undoubtedly will be an enlarged demand for 

 concentrated juices, it is undeniable that new markets and products must 

 be created if virtual disaster is to be prevented. In considering the 

 postwar possibilities for concentrated juices, several methods for appeal- 

 ing to the consumer come to mind. First, of course, there is the familiar 

 method of reconstituting the concentrate and using it as a beverage, either 

 directly or as a base for •ades ' and carbonated beverages 



"Another method for presenting concentrated juice, v;hich apparently 

 up to the present time has been completely OTerlooked, is to consider the 

 concentrate itself as an entity, a substance in its own right. lYith this 

 conception, additional fields may be opened and wholly now markets created. 

 For instance, it v/as discovered in the author's Ip.boratory that it is possi- 

 ble to evaporate viater from juices dovm to 2 per cent moisture content, and 

 when this is done a hard candy-liko substance results .,.».... 



"Successful hard tablets of conc-^ntrat'id juice, patent for which is 

 now pending, have been made from grapefruit, pineapple, prune, apple, apricot, 

 raspberry ajid other fruits and various combinations of two or more juices. 

 New candy mark'its may be opened, postwar, by the assured surplus of these 

 tablets." 



Origi n of DDT. The much publicized insecticide, DDT, the full name of which 

 is Dichloro-Diphonyl-Trichlorobenzone, v;as first compounded by a young German 

 chemist in 1874 as a routine part of preparing a thesis. No particular at- 

 tention was paid to it until in 1928 when a Sv/iss entomological research 

 company compounded th"-; same material in its search for a pov;erful insecti- 

 cide. Its first practical use vms in tho destruction of an unusual infesta- 

 tion of the Colorado Potato Beetle in 1939 in Switzerland. 



A bill to prohibit the employment on farms of persons under 

 14 years of age is said to have been introduced in the 

 Massachusetts Legislature. It al.'^o prohibits persons under 

 18 from driving a tractor v;ithout first obtaining permission 

 from the Commission of Labor and Industries, 



Orchard Crowding may b'^ considered as Problem No, 1 in many Massachu- 

 setts orchards. It is closely associated with magnesium deficiency, 

 pest control, and a relatively high percentage of low grade fruit. 



