Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering. 1939-1942, Issues 1-4

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Page 2 - Engineering which relates to investigations, experiments, and demonstrations, in connection with crop production on irrigable lands, the quality of irrigation water and its use by crops, and methods for improving and maintaining the productivity of irrigated soils, was transferred to the Bureau of Plant Industry. The remaining work of these divisions, which relates to...
Page 2 - Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain four regional research laboratories, one in each major farm producing area, and, at such laboratories, to conduct researches into and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for farm commodities and products and byproducts thereof.
Page 37 - ... from sucrose. Among the first steps in the synthesis of lignin is the production of a substance or substances having firmly bound methoxyl groups in etherlike combination. Such substance or substances may be formed in the course of splitting up of carbohydrates by a process of hydrolysis, oxidation, reduction, and dehydration, and not necessarily directly from formaldehyde by a process of methylation. Data on the percentage of methoxyl at various stages of development of fhe plant tended to support...
Page 95 - Rev. 53 : 687-691. [Abstract p. 600] 1939. The compressibilities of hydrogen and of four mixtures of hydrogen and nitrogen at 0, 25, 50. 100, 200, and 300° C.
Page 90 - Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 93 - Off. Agr. Chem. Jour. 21 : 632-635. 1938. The chemistry of lignin. XI. Lignin from wheat straw. By Max Phillips and MJ Goss. Jour. Biol. Chem. 125 : 241-246. 1938. Studies in the quantitative estimation of lignin. IV. The effect of certain proteins on the determination of lignin by the fuming hydrochloric acid method. By Max Phillips Assoc. Off. Agr. Chem. Jour. 22 : 42->-4^7 1939. The "effect' of hydroxyl groups and acetylation on the apparent diene values of soybean and other vegetable oils.
Page 2 - ... Bureau of Plant Industry by the Agricultural Appropriation Act of 1936. The soil chemistry and physics and soil survey work of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils was transferred to the Bureau of Plant Industry by Secretary's memorandum 784 of October 6, 1938. In February 1943 the engineering research of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering was transferred to the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering in accordance with Research Administration memorandum 5...
Page 94 - Annual naval stores report on production, distribution, consumption, and stocks of turpentine and rosin of the United States by crop years.
Page 95 - The mechanism of delayed killing of maizo seeds with X-radiation. By Louis R. Maxwell. Natl. Acad, Scl. Proc. 24 (9) : 377384. 1938. Some band spectra in emission at atmospheric pressure and ordinary temperature. (Abstract.) By OR Wulf and EH Melvin. Conf. on Spectroscopy and Its Application Proc. 6: 150. 1939. Partial analysis of some...
Page 2 - Department and the remaining units of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils and the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering were consolidated to form the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering.

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