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. . . the keys used by the chemist to unlock doors inside the green leaf, also fit doors inside the human body β Charles Glen King J O U R N A L OF APRIL 1, 1953 Volume 1 Number 1 Copyright 1953 by American Chemical Society Editor: WALTER J. MURPHY Executive Editor: James M. Crowe Managing Editor: Richard L. Kenyon Production Manager: Joseph H. Kuney Consulting Editor: Philip H. Groggins Associate Editors: WASHINGTON: Robert G. Gibbs, Stella Anderson, G. Gladys Gordon CHICAGO: Rodney N. Hader HOUSTON: Will H. Shearon, Jr. NEW YORK: Harry Stenerson, Harold A. Knight, Howard J. Sanders SAN FRANCISCO: William Q. Hull EASTON: Bertha Reynolds, Charlotte Sayre EUROPE: Gordon C. Inskeep Assistant Editors: Katherine Biggs, Ruth Cornette, Margaret Summers, Gordon H. Bixler, Gertrude McMurray, Kevin J. Bradley, Albert S. Hester Editorial Assistants: Betty Kieffer, Mary Carls, Jean Marshall, Sue Peter, Violet Rivlin, Ruth Laubach, William L. Ostrow- ski, Thompson C. 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. . . the keys used by the chemist to unlock doors inside the green leaf, also fit doors inside the human body β —Charles Glen King

J O U R N A L O F

APRIL 1 , 1953 Volume 1 Number 1

Copyright 1953 by American Chemical Society

Edi tor : WALTER J. M U R P H Y Executive Edi tor : James M. Crowe Managing Edi tor : Richard L. Kenyon Produc t ion Manage r : Joseph H. Kuney Consu l t ing Edi tor : Phi l ip H. Groggins Associate Edi tors :

W A S H I N G T O N : Rober t G. Gibbs, Stella Anderson, G. Gladys Gordon

CHICAGO: Rodney N . Hader H O U S T O N : Will H. Shearon, Jr. NEW YORK: Harry Stenerson, Harold

A. Knight , Howard J. Sanders SAN FRANCISCO: William Q. Hull EASTON: Bertha Reynolds, Charlotte

Sayre EUROPE: Gordon C. Inskeep

Ass is tan t Edi tors : Katherine Biggs, Ruth Cornette, Margaret Summers, Gordon H. Bixler, Gertrude McMurray, Kevin J. Bradley, Albert S. Hester

Editorial Ass i s tan t s : Betty Kieffer, Mary Carls, Jean Marshall, Sue Peter, Violet Rivlin, Ruth Laubach, William L. Ostrow­ski, Thompson C. Upham

Advisory Board : LaVerne E. Clifcorn, Russell Coleman, Albert L. Elder, Con­rad A. Elvehjem, Charles H. Fisher, Walter G. Frankenburg, J. F. Fudge, Francis A. Gunther, H. L. Haller, Lauren B. Hitchcock, Lea S. Hitchner, Charles G. King, Walter H. MacIntire, Harvey B. Mann, John H. Nair, Bernard L. Oser, Vincent Sauchelli, J. L. St. John, Betty Sullivan, Paul T. Truitt , Leland A. Underkofler

The American Chemical Society assumes no re­sponsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to its publications. Views expressed in the editorials are those of the editors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the American Chemical Society.

Published biweekly by the American Chemical So­ciety, from 2 0th and Northampton Sts., Easton, Pa. Executive Offices, Editorial Headquarters, and Circu­lation Department, 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W., Wash­ington 6, D. C. Advertising Office: 330 West 42nd St., New York 36, Ν. Υ. Branch Editorial Offices: Chicago 1. 111., 86 East Randolph St.; Houston 2, Tex., 623 West Bldg.; London, Bush House, Aidwych; New York 17, N. Y., 60 East 42nd St.; San Francisco 4, Calif., 703 Mechanics' Institute Bldg., 57 Post St. Application pending for entry as second-class mat­ter at the Post Office at Easton, Pa., U.S.A., under the Act of March 3, 1879, as 26 times a year on every other Wednesday.

Annual subscriptions: members $5.00, nonmem-bers $6.00. Postage to countries not in the Pan-American Union $1.50; Canadian postage $0.75. Single copies: current issues, members $0.40, non-members $0.50. Claims for missing numbers will not be allowed if received more than 60 days from date of mailing plus time normally require Λ for postal delivery of journal and claim. No claims allowed from subscribers in central Europe, Asia, or the Pa­cific Islands other than Hawaii, or because of failure to notify the Circulation Department of a change of ad­dress, or because copy is 'missing from files."

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation De­partment, American Chemical Society, at 1155 Six­teenth St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Such noti­fication should include both old and new addresses and postal zone number, if any. The American Chemical Society also publishes: Analytical Chem­istry, Chemical and Engineering News, Chemical Ab­stracts, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Rates on request.

Agricultural and Food

Chemistry contents Ag and Food Newsletter . . . 3 Letters 4 Editorial 9 News 11 Washington 17 The Observation Post

P. H. Groggins 97 Associations Forum 98

Equipment Products and Processes Literature Available . Federal and State

Regulations . . . . New Books Business and Finance . Perspective

Feature The Editors Interview 1 8 Leaders in Science, Agriculture,

and Food Processing

Pesticides Herbicides, Chemical Weed Control

C. E. Minarik and A. G. Norman Herbicide Application, Some Considerations in Choosing Methods

K. C. Barrons Herbicide Mechanism, Mode of Action Other Than Aryl OxyalkyI Acids

V. H. Freed Herbicides, Their Absorption and Translocation

A. S. Crafts

Plant Foods and Regulators Magnésie Minerals and Soils, A 4-Year Lysimeter Study of Their

Interreactivities W. H. Maclntire, W. M. Shaw, and J. B. Young

Serpentine-Fused Phosphate, Citric Solubility and Glass Content Correlation Tah-Ho Huang

Liming Materials in Soils, Radiochemical Measurement of Reaction Rates D. H. Smith, J. M. Blume, and C. W. Whittaker

N u t r i t i o n Dietary Proteins, Their Function in Health and Disease

J. B. Allison Phosphorus Compounds in Cottonseed Kernels, Influence of Variety of

Cottonseed and Environment M. F. Stansbury, W. A. Pons, Jr., and C. L. Hoffpauir

F o o d Process ing Atmospheric Odors, Their Effect on Flavors of Stored Foods

Amos Turk, P. J. Messer, and Arthur Blaskiewicz Cottonseed Meals, Influence of Processing on Protein Values

Barnett Sure with Leslie Fosterling, Joy Dowell, and Mary Crudup . . Amino Acids, In Cane Juice and Cane Final Molasses

G. N. Kowkabany, W. W. Binkley, and M. L. Wolfrom

Fermentation Fungal Saccharifying Agents, Amylolytic Factors of Bran Culture and

Submerged Culture E. L. Pool and L. A. Underkofler

Yeast, A Source of Biochemical Intermediates Louis Laufer, D. R. Schwarz, and E. D. Stewart

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