BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
LOCUSTS AND CRUSTACEA. NEW SYNTHETIC SILK. HOPE FOH MAORI BTJG-S. (By Cable.—Press Association.-Copyright.)
<Rm-pived 2 pm.) BERLIN. June 20.
Myriad? oi cockchafers and May beetles and even lobsters may in the future be clothing womankind, according to the claims of Professor Herzog end Dr. Kunickc before the Chemical Institute.
They have discovered a process by ■which silk thread fan be manufactured from chitin. the organic substance formin" the horny part of insects and the Crustacea. They dissolve this chitin and spray it into the air. where it forms silk thread? of extraordinary strength.
It is suggested that instead of exterminating locn=ti and similar pests, it will soon pay to breed them.— (A. and y.z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 9
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