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will rather depend upon relative costs and ease of 

 application. 



The chemical industries are constantly finding 

 new uses of wood. One such recent discovery per- 

 mits the production of ethyl- or grain alcohol, as 

 distinguished from the wood alcohol previously 

 mentioned, while others have even made possible 

 the manufacture of baking powder and live stock 

 feed. These processes are of course complicated, 

 but all of them are now graduating from the field of 

 mere experiment to that of real economic value. 

 Indeed wood is a vast reservoir of organic material 

 and its ultimate uses through the developments 

 of creative chemistry are almost unlimited. 



