The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-15
OUR WASTE PRODUCTS.
Animal Food to Be Made from
Vegetable Refuse.
Odds And EAAs from the lGNls VIII
Rsturn HAndsome PROFIT Whon
Turned Into on Cakes ond
Meal for Cattle.


Turned Into on Cakes and
Meal for Cattle.
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 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 maj
esty, the queen.
But this new plan for feeding Europe's
animals as we'll as her soldier men
does not involve 50 much bulk in trans
portation. All the waste material is
to be squeezed down with hydraulic
press machinery so that fair sized
dry goods box might hold q winters
fodder for q bunch OF steers. A man
starting on days carriage journey
can carry provender for his nag in a
tobacco pouch and pocketful of these
ingenious American biscuits will be
food for flock of sheep.
Thus, the refuse of -four mills, rice
mills, oat mills, starch factories and
places where cotton-seed oil is made,
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 It is not unusual in the
old country to see rustic traveller
cut OF q slice Of bread for his horse
and another from the same loaf for him
self.
Last year there were sent to Europe,
AZ a basis for this useful breadstu6,
75O, O,00O, 900 pounds Of refuse from cot
tonseed oil and linseed oil mills, repre-
senting a value of 81 ,2o0,0 900. This ma
terial is mixed with various grains and
folders, so as to make a suitable ra-
ton for whatever purpose may be in
view, whether it be fesh. 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
manufacture it into cakes and sell then
to his European cousin. 1t virtually ere
ates an industry, one for which thi.
country furnishes a rich supply OF ma
terial at the mere semblance OF price
The waste of glucose and corn-starch
factories is enormous. 1t is estimated
that ten pounds of glucose Is manu-
factured annually for every man. WON
an and child in this country. The
starchy contents of the corn grains
are separated from the hulls 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
vast refuse, too.
A cheese-shaped cake, Is inches il
diameter and six inches thick, made
up of these different products and sub
jccted to the proper amount OF press
ure, will weigh 100 pounds and keel
a horse ut active work for ten days
We now sell abroad less than 4O0, 0,00t
tons of oil cake and meal. Under tht
new system we could readily dispose
of 10000 tons of readymade fooe
cakes, worth $50 ton at our seaboard
or $24, ,O00, 600, gain of ga .0oo, 600 In for
eign markets for our grain producers
millers and oil wells.
The department is about to issue I
circular to farmers and millers every
where containing recipes and urging
them to experiment in the manufacture
Of cakes from the refuse, with view
to testing their keeping quality. Thes<
cakes will be put up in cheap straw
board or paper, which will help to pre-
serve them-N. Y. Journal.