The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-09-11
OUR WASTE PRODUCTS.
Animal Food to Be Made from
Vegetable Refuse.
Odds and Ends from the A1nis VIII
Return a Handsome Profit When
Turned Into Oh Cakes and
Meal for Cattle.

We have not lived long enough as a
nation to know how to utilize odds
and ends as they do in the old world.
People there have developed to n nicely
the science Of making the most Of
everything. But the American is quick
to Learn and now Uncle Sam has deter
mined 10 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 che Tommy Atllinses OF her maj
esty, the queen.
But this new plan for feeding Europe's
animals as well as her soldier men
does not involve so much bulk in trans
portation. I'll the waste material is
to be squeezed down with hydraulic
press machinery so that fair sized
dry goods box might hold a winters
fodder for bunch of steers. A man
starting on a days carriage journey
can carry provender for his nag in
tobacco pouch and pocketful of these
ingenious American biscuits will be
food Tor a flock OF sheep.
Thus, the refuse of flour mills, rice
mills, cat 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-
roneGn farmers. They believe in the
catc form OF food for their beasts. They
alrcaGj use cakes compounded on diet
ic principles, furnishing il proper pro
pottioEs tie clements which develop
fat ard lean. It is not unusual in the
old country to see rustic traveller
cut eli a slice of bread for his horse
and another from the same loaf for him
self.
Last year there were sent to Europe,
as . basis for this useful breadstuif,
7509OG0CG pounds of refuse from cot
tcnaecd oil and linseed oil mills, repre-
sent.rE a value of $7,2Oo,oOo. 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 flesh, milk or the
support OF beasts of burden.
The oil mill refuse, known as cake
or oil-caEe meal, is very rich in flesh
forming substances.
But now the department OF agricul-
ture SUGGESTS that instead of slipping |
the raw material the American farmer
manufacture it into cakes and sell them |
TO his European cousin. ItvirtuaIy ere
ates an industry, one for which this
country furnishes rich supply OF ma
tcrial al the mere semblanc2 CT q price.
The waste Of glucose and eorn-starch
factories is enormous. 1t IS estimated |
that ten pounds of glucose is manu-
featured annually for every man, wom-
an ard 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 q
7ast refuse, too.
a chcese-shaped cake, Is inches in
diameter and six inches thick, made
up Of these different products and sub
jected to the proper amount of press
ure, VIII weigh 100 pounds and keep
a horse at active work for ten days.
We now sell abroad less than 100000
tons Of oil cake and meal. Under the
new system we could readily dispose
of 10000 tons Of readymade food
cakes, worth $40 a ton at our seaboard,
Or $4,000, $50, gain of S14,0O0,OO0 in for
eign markets for our grain producers,
nillers ard 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 view
o testing their keeping quality. These
:alies will be put up in a cheap straw
BOARD or paper, which will help to pre-
serve them-N. Y. Journal.