Issued September 2®, V.i) 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY— BULLETIN No. 141. 



H. W. WILEY, Chief of Bureau. 



EXPERIMENTS ON THE PROCESSING OF 



PERSIMMONS TO RENDER THEM 



NON ASTRINGENT. 



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. 



