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...material left after the sap has been removed from sugar cane, used to present a problem because it was expensive to dispose of. This is now being made into board called Celotex, which is used as the plaster base and insulator. Reversing the old order, sugar is now the by-product in some places where cane is planted to yield the board material. Cornstalks are used to produce paper and a kind of lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw, virtually valueless as a fertilizer. has always been a problem. Farmers burn a large percentage of the 50 million...
Commercial Solvents Corp. (Uses corn as its basic raw material; produces cattle feed as a by-product): $3,667,402 as against...
Coalition ranks reformed, pressed on to Casein Creek. (Casein is a skimmed milk by-product of large industrial value.) Battle lines crumbled weakly as the attackers swept through to double the rate (2½? to 5½? per lb.). Farmers cheered lustily and manufacturers of waterproof paints, glue, coated paper, groaned with despair...
That the issue of Philippine independence-an issue raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects...
Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...