Hebrew University Develops Process to Save Palestine’s Grain Supply

Palestine’s wartime grain supply will be kept intact by a manufacturing process developed in Hebrew University’s physical chemistry department, it was reported here today by the American Friends of the Hebrew University.

Damage to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year was caused by insects in the period before the war. During the war the losses have increased proportionately as the reserve stocks had to be enlarged. To avoid these losses granaries and grain must be fumigated with chemicals whose vapors kill the harmful insects and destroy their eggs. Tests made by the Hebrew University in cooperation with the Grain Growers Organization of Palestine showed that one kilogram of a new chemical developed by University scientists, is enough to fumigate ten tons of grain. It can be produced in large enough quantities to supply the needs of Palestine and neighboring countries, the report said.