Issued September 29, 1911. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY— BULLETIN No. 141. 



H. W. WILEY, Chief of Bureau. 



EXPERIMENTS ON THE PROCESSING OF 

 PERSIMMONS TO RENDER THEM 



NONASTRINGENT. 



BY 



H. C. GORE, 



Assistant Chemist, Division of Foods, Bureau of Chemistry, 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 



DAVID FAIRCHILD, 



Agricultural Explorer, in charge, Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 



1911. 



