1941-05-31 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Artificial Production By

Electrical Means

Artificial production of foodstuffs by electricity, extraction of valuable constituents from seawater, recovery of many natural produets now going to waste and isolation of new compounds un- heard of at present" were recently promised by Dr. Collis G. Fink. head of the division of electrochemistry at Columbia University before the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society, ob- serves the New York Times.

In producing foodstuffs by elce- the plants increases the rate of trical means, scientists will liter- photosynthesis, the starch-making

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

Canadian Import Trade Reviewed

OTTAWA, May 30 (Reuter}

WHEAT SURPLUS H.K. Stock

PROBLEMS

ally be taking over the work of process by which plants thrive "The great strength of the sea of wheat surplus

and, in turn, growth,

"MATS" OR" "TUFTS”

Exchange

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuter) -The State Department is plan-

This week has followed its pre- ning to call an International Con- tecessor in that nothing much has ference to consider the problems een stirring in the market.

Persistent demands for Honigitong the sun.

borne power of the Empire" is:

This was disclosed in the ex-Banks and Union of Cantons meet Just as the sunlight furnishes

shown by the imports into change of notes between the United with no response. As regards Unions, the energy, for plants to create Fabrics may be made electrically Canada from overseas countries, States, and Canada zo connexion the transferring of the Head starches, so electricity can be used in the near future, Gilinks Dz.states the Dominion Bureau of with President Roosevelt's action office to Sydney has uncovered as the energy for manufacturing Fink. Cloth manufactured by pre- Statistics, reviewing the Cannon Wednesday in imposing an im- disabilities to investors, particu- these same..compounds artificially, resses that depend almost entirely diar" import trade.

port quota on wheat from Canada larly the small Investor. Before Fundamentally, synthetic "pota-on electricity for energy may be-

Imports in the first four months and other countries.

their emigration it was possible to toes," for example. require nothing come more popular than natural of 1941 reached $402,000,000 com-

have large scrip split up with lit- more than the substitution of one wool or cotton,

pared with $304,000,000 in the same

le delay. Today the transit of form of energy-namely, electricity

period in 1940.

scrip te and from Sydney is for another, and that form light.

MEANS OF ELECTRICITY.

The amount of imports from Empire countries was $91,000,000 compared with $72,000,000,

"Despite d'iculties and stress

CHINESE MINISTRY fraught with some hazard and

OF FOOD CHUNGKING, May 30 (Central)

In producing such fabrics. the phenomenon of electrophoresis. the mieration of particles in a solution from one part to another in an In the process, the constituents electric field... would be applied. of potato starch-carbon, hydrogen By placing in solution various in the United Kingdom, commo-It is learned that the Ministry and oxygen-are driven together compounds, such as wood puid or cities received from the United of Food will be formally inaugurat- to form the compound by means rayon, and then drawing the par- Kingdom amounted to $30,000,000 on June 6 when Mr. Hsu Kan, of electricity. This same "driving ticles together electrically into compared with $41,000,000, and all the Minister will take his oath at together" is done in plants by light "mats" or "tufts," out of which were goods for consumption." a ceremony at the National Govern- furnished by the sur

fabric can de woven, a new textile Canada's total trade

ment headquarters. The formation of starch requires Industry may be born.

· $24,000,000 — the

The Ministry will have the de- a building up of energy rather. ELECTRO-ORGANIC FIELD

monthly total in 11 years.

partments of general affairs. per- than simple substitution of O special interest are possible

sonnel, civilian food, my food, chemical energy "energy such as far reaching developments in the

FOREIGN SHIPPING storage and transportation, and takes place in ordinary reactions. electro-organic

IN UNITED STATES and investigation. When ne- Food Purchasing and WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuter)cessary, a -The Senate has approved and Transportation Administration will sent to the White House for Pre-De established. sidential signature legislation per

In a few instances scientists have already been able to supply enough of this energy to synthesise starch compounds electrically.

GROWTH STIMULATED

field,

י'

Dr. Fink holds that the few instances that have recently attracted the Indus- trialist "will be. multiplied mani- fold in the next years to come." Sy no other method or means thar

Was

in

April largest

fiance and the bureaux of statis-

"other

The natural growth of plants re-by the electrolytic is it possible mitting the Government to take maining in the soll has already nicely to control and regulate reöver 80 foreign ships idle in the ter but cash benefits or been *timulated electrically: ductions and oxidations of organic United States harbours.

equitable treatment" must be pro- Charged wires are strung low to compounds. Organic reactions by The vessels may be taken over vided for foreign seamen thrown the ground between rows of plants, older methods require high ten-by purchase, requisition or char-out of employment by requisitions.

The energy leaps from the wire peratures or high pressures: elec-

to the leaves of the plants and trolysis can be carried out at speeds up growth. The resultant ordinary temperatures and pres- lonisation or electrical charging of surca.

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BUSINESS DONE DURING THE WEEK.

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SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941. -PAGE 9

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Johore Estates Aim At Self-Sufficiency

"On the strength of the figures: obtained it is clearly ap- parent. that considerable efförts have been made in Johore in the way of planting of foodstuffs on estates," states a passage in the annual report of the Johore. Planter's Association just issued, In connexion with the growing of foodstuffs in estates In that State.

The figures, obtained following and pig and poultry rearing must the issuing of questionnaires to 200 be in a fairly large scale estates, to which 145 estates. re- "It must be borne in mind that plied, give the following details: the figures' quoted only refer to padi, 22 acres; ragi, 70 acres: estates which are members of the polatnes, 3141 acres; · vegetables, | Association,” states the report. 1,622 acres; taploca, 60 acres: "There is a considerable number. bananas, 931 acres; pineapples, nf estates, particularly small hold- 447 acres; mixed planting-pota-ings, which are not members and toes, vegetables and rag733 the acreage under cultivation of acres: and sundry Crabs.

estates must 250 foodstuffs on these acres.

amount to a considerable gure." The report states that it is in- The report gives the figures of teresting to report that on ten livestock retunred as: pigs, 9,339; estates the area under cultivation poultry, 51.708: cattle. 2,785; and in each case exceeds 85 acres. goats, 4,430.

On Johore Labis, Rengam. It is stated at the outset of the Sedenak and Pengkalan estates report that, while the committee the area. cultivated ranges between strongly encourages the cultiva 200 and 500 acres.

tion of edible crops which" would Fifty-five estates did not reply contribute to the food rcjources of to the questionnaire, and on these, the country in times of emergency, being mostly Chinese-owned, it is it is opposed to the policy of com-" presumed that vegetable growing pulsory cultivation of foodstuffs. „

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