(Nebraska Experiment Station)

"As agricultural chemist his most noteworthy work was discovering the particular poison in the sorghum plant which caused deaths among livestock." C.W.P. January and February 1926 interest in sugar from artichokes for development of levulose industry in Nebraska, without injury to beet sugar industry. Correspondence with Sentator R.B.Howell as to same. In letter from Avery to Howell Feb. 24 1926 Avery says: "If there should be developing a great levulose industry in the United States I should be glad to have it start in Nebraska inasmuch as you have interested yourself in the subject and inasmuch as I had a 'pipe dream' 35 years ago of becoming a sugar chemist and I think we could perhaps cooperate very happily in the matter."