Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Covered walks between class-rooms; animals penned, protesting: bottles filled with niedi- eines: glass jars exhibiting sections of animals; hospital instruments; cadavers; operating ta- bles. These may be seen any day in the spa- cious Veterinary Quadrangle. At Veishea time the exhibits are worth even a trip in the rain. Such spectacles as the heart- beat record of frogs, operations, and a huge ox-heart artificially pumped, illustrating how tlie blood rushes through the heart, may be seen here. The rooms are lined witli charts, animals and samples. Many enthusiasts vote it one of the best displays on the campua.

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The new and modern Agricultural By-Pro- duets Laboratory is tiie latest addition to the Iowa State campus. Supported by the ITnited States government, it is the national head- quarters for the study of the utilization of in- dustrial and farm wastes which include nut shells, oat and rice hulls, corn cobs, corn- stalk, straw, chicken feathers, scrap leather, and creamery wastes. Here experiments are carried out on scrap leather to make leather-board. Alazewood, a new wall-board processed from cornstalks, ivas developed in this laboratory. Experi- ments on paper from cornstalks, on fermen- tation, and rayon are also under headway.