Uses of Milk, Soya Beans and Peanuts beans into buttermilk and coffee, peanuts into Turning pine trees into silk stockings, soya candy and pickles, and wood shavings into marble are just a few of the things we are already doing to translate some of our surplus farm products into something they never intended to become, writes Ross L. Holman in "Coronet." Back in the good old days of fairy godmothers in the land of make-believe, we usually made things change into something else by. having a convenient fairy to wave a magic wand. It is not necessary now, however, to keep a kind fairy standing round for those little favours. All you need is a scientist and a test tube. the dreams of the chemurgic wizards develop into substance the day may come when that 18,000,000-bale cotton crop won't scare the daylights out of the stock market even if it is a few million more bales than America can use. People will just take those extra millions, roll them up to the back door of some laboratory, and turn them into a few millions of something else that we are running short on and sell that converted cotton out at a nice profit.
We needn't lose our shirts, however, over the possibilities of immediately creating milliards of new wealth out of farm commodities that are
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