jected portion of the cereal may come into wide use as a feeding material, as it contains not only iodine but organic phosphorus, vitamins, and other foods. We see now that soil fertility is maintained by the aid of chemicalsand plants protected by application of chemicals. Therefore, if the farmer will have good crops, he is dependent on chemistry. Due to the fact that we cannot possibly consume all the farm production as food, i t has become necessary to devise plans by which there would be no waste. This chemistry has done. The investigation of chemists on food rations for farm animals has told the farmer what foods he can most profitably and with the best results feed to his animals. I believe that in the future the bulk of our food will continue to be raised from the soil, but I also believe that the farmer of the future will not confine himself so closely to food production as formerly. Real farm relief will be secured when the factory and farm cooperate in carrying on great industries. The agricultural chemist has already laid the foundation of many new and rich industries. The general nation-wide belief is that agriculture is doomed to die or is now dying a pitiful death. On the contrary, I believe, after seeing all the things chemistry has done and may in the future do for farming, that agriculture is now just establishing itself upon a sound and profitable basis as other industries. Bibliography "Soil Fertility and Permanent Agrintltur$," C. G. Hopkins, Ginn & Company, Boston, 1910. "Creative Chemistry," Edwin E. Slossan, The Century Company, New York, 1919. "Chemistry in Agriculture," J. S. Chamberlain. The Chemical Foundation, New York, 1926. "Spraying, Dusting and Fumigating of Plants," A. F. Mason, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1928. Litemry Digest, October 20, 1929, "Chemical Farm Relief by Ennobling Farm Waste," pp. 22, 23. Literary Digest, January 12, 1929, "Chem~calCrops to Make Farms Pay," p. 18. "Muscle Shoals, Nitrogen and Farm Fertilizers," R. 0. E. Davis, The Annals of the American Academy, 135, 15'-64 (January, 1928). "Agricultural Chemistry," lecture delivered by Dr. C. A. Browne a t Columbia University, New York. August 11, 1926. "Attack Farm Problem by Utilizing Wastes," released for publication November 22, 1928, by United States Department of Agriculture. "Phosphorus in Fertilizer," William H. Waggaman, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils.
Vanillin Imports. The imports of vanillin into the United States in 1928 were 15,332 lbs., or four times the amount imported in 1927. The 1926 imports amounted to 221 lbs. More than half the 1928 imports came from Germany.
