The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-23
VALUABLE WASTE,
Refuse of American Mills to Be Turned
to Account.

we have not lived long enough as
nation to know how to utilize odds
and ends as they do in the old world.
People there have developed to a nicely
the science of making the most of
everything. But the American is quick
TO learn and now Uncle Sam has deter
mined to take all the waste from our
enormous crops and convert it into
bread and cakes for shipment to Eu-
rope, to be used as animal food AL
ready the clippings from the bones of
American beeves, meat that no Ameri-
can would care for, is packed and sent
to England to put Drawn and pluck
INTO the Tommy Atkinses of her mai
esty, the queen.
But this new plan for feeding Europe's
animals as we'll as her soldier men
does not involve so much bulk in trans
portation. All the waste material is
to be squeezed down with hydraulic
press machinery so that a fair sized
dry goods box might hold winters
fodder for bunch of steers. A man
starting on a days carriage journey
can carry provender for his nag in a
tobacco pouch and pocketful of these
ingenious American biscuits will be
food for a flock of sheep.
Thus, the refuse of flour mills, rice
Hills, eat ,sitll starch factories and
places where cotton-seed oil is maze,
is all to be converted into marketable
products.
This plan finds great favor with Eu
ropean farmers. They believe in the
cake form of food for their beasts. They
already use cakes compounded on diet
ic principles, furnishing in proper pro-
portions the elements which develop
fat and lean. 1t is not unusual in the
old country to see a rustic traveller
cut off a slice of bread for his horse
and another from the same loaf for him
self.
Last year there were sent to Europe,
as a basis for this useful breadstutf,
75O,0 900 pounds of refuse from cot
tonseed oil and linseed oil mills, repre-
senting a value of $7,200,000. This ma
terial is mixed with various grains and
folders, so as to make suitable ra-
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view, whether it be flesh, milk or the
support of beasts of burden.
The oil mill refuse, known as cake
or oil-cake meal, is very rich in flesh
forming substances.
But now the department of agricul-
ture suggests that instead of shipping
the raw material the American farmer
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to his European cousin. 1t virtually Gre
| ates an industry, one for which this
| country furnishes rich supply of ma
terial at the mere semblance of a price.
The waste of glucose and cOrn-starch
factories is enormous. 1t is estimated
that ten pounds of glucose is manu-
featured annually for every man, wom-
an and child in this country. The
starchy contents of the corn grains
are separated from the bulls and germs.
These, which are splendid food ele-
| ments, are for the most part wasted.
The mills which prepare corn for dis
tillers and grain for brewers have a
vast refuse, too.
A cheese-shaped cake, Is inches in
anu SIN lllCHtS IlllCk, Hlduc
up of these different products and sub
| jected to the proper amount of press
ure, will weigh 100 pounds and keep
horse at active work for ten days.
We now sell abroad less than 400, 900
tons of oil cake and meal. Under the
new system we could readily dispose
of 100000 toss of readymade food
cakes, worth $50 a ton at our seaboard,
or $24, 000, 900, a gain of S14,OOO,OOO in for
eign markets for our grain producers,
millers and oil wells.
The department is about to issue a
circular to farmers and millers every
where containing recipes and urging
! them to experiment in the manufacture
of cakes from The refuse, with a view
to testing their keeping quality. These
cakes will be put up in cheap straw
| board or paper, which will help to pre-
serve them.-N. Y. journal.