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THE report of the Ontario Research Foundation for the year 1938 (Sessions Paper, No. 48, 1939. Pp. 36. Toronto: King's Printer, 1939) refers to the extension of the soil survey of the central part of Southern Ontario eastward to the Quebee border. The Department of Agriculture has also determined the general relations between the performance of certain varieties of apple, and climatic and soil conditions in the applo-growing sections of the Province. The Department of Pathology and Bacteriology has continued its studies of bovine mastitis. Attention has been focused on the prevention of human infection by pasteurization of milk, and experimental work was continued during the year on Brucclla Abortus. Studies relating to the sheep nose fly were continued during the year as well as on the parasites of game and fish. The Textiles Department lias been responsible for investigations on causes of fabric fraying and the quantitative and consistent measurement of this tendency. They have also been responsible for testing work on the fastness to light of dyestuffs used in the Canadian textile industry, and have commenced a study of the fundamental and physical characteristics of single silk fibres. the testing work and control work of the department, particularly in connexion with rayon merchandise, have also increased. The facilities of the Department of Engineering and Metallurgy for the investigation of products associated with air-conditioning have been extended, and were put to considerable use in the year. A study of the resistance of metals and alloys to abrasion and wear has developed to a stage which permitted a new programme of work to be prepared, and results of tests on suitable metals have been collated.
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The Ontario Research Foundation. Nature 144, 279 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144279a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144279a0