4 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1051-1O75. 



Department Bulletin No. 1055.- — Methods or Manufacturing Potato 



Chips: Pagev 



Introduction 1 



Experimental methods making potato chips 2 



Fats used in the experimental work 3 



Standard method of making chips for the tests 6 



Handling the fat in making chips 7 



Equipment 9 



Selecting potatoes for chips 11 



Causes of failure in making chips 12 



Score card used in these tests 13 



Comparative adaptability of varieties for making chips 14 



Loss in peeling and quantity of chips obtained 16 



Summary 19 



Department Bulletin No. 1056. — Marketing Cottonseed for Planting 

 Purposes: 



Sources of supply 1 



Selection of the seed stocks 3 



Preparation 4 



Ginning , 4 



Delinting 5 



Recleaning and grading 12 



Sacking 16 



Storage 16 



Warehouse should be ventilated 17 



Storing in sacks 17 



Stacking 18 



Germination 18 



Causes of low germination 19 



Making tests 19 



The shipping tag 20 



The lot number 20 



Selling . 21 



Extravagant claims undesirable 21 



True names for varieties 22 



Renaming varieties 22 



Sales on basis of weight versus measure 22 



Certified cottonseed 23 



Summary 23 



Department Bulletin No. 1057. — The Chaulmoogra Tree and Some 

 Related Species: A Survey Conducted in Siam, Burma, Assam, and 

 Bengal: 



Introduction 1 



History of chaulmoogra oil ^ 3 



Chemistry of chaulmoogra, hydnocarpus, and gynocardia oils 7 



Recent information on the chaulmoogra tree and some related species 10 



Hydnocarpus anthelminthica 10 



Hydnocarpus castanea 12 



Hydnocirpus curtisii 14 



Taraktogenos kurzii 15 



Asteriastigma macrocarpa 22 



Gynocardia odorata 23 



Conclusions 24 



Recommendations 26 



Literature cited 28 



Department Bulletin No. 1058. — Sterility of Oats: 



Introduction 1 



Experiments of 1918. . .' 4 



Experiments of 1920 5 



General summary 7 



