Excerpt from A Summary of Current Program 7/1/67 and Preliminary Report of Progress for 7/1/66 to 6/30/67: Western Utilization Research and Development Division of the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture and Related Work of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations Utilization research in agriculture deals with the discovery and development of new and improved products from farm crops and the invention or perfection of processing technologies. The scientists, engineers, and technologists who carry on this research devote much of their effort to basic studies of physical and chemical properties of agricultural commodities and products derived from them, in order to provide a firm base of exact knowledge for applied developments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.