The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-11-05
OUR WASTE PRODUCTS.
Animal Food to Be Made from
Vegetable Refuse.

Animal Food to Be Made from
Vegetable Refuse.
Odds and Ends from the Mnls wa
Return . Handsomc Profit when
Turned into OH Cakes and
Meal for Cattle. z
We have not lived long enough as 9
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 nozAmeri-
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
does not involve SO 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 a winters
fodder for a bunch Of steers. A man
starting on q days carriage journey
can carry provender for his nag in a
tobacco pouch and a 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 q 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 breadstuff, i,
75O, 100000 pounds Of refuse from cot
tonseed oil and linseed oil mills, repre-
senting value of 81, ,2oO, 900. This ma
terial is mixed with various grains and
folders, so as to make 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-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 iuto cakes and sell them
to his European cousin. Itvirtually Gre
ates an industry, one for which this
country furnishes rich supply of ma
terial at the mere semblance of price.
The waste of glucose and corn-starch
factories is enormous. It is estimated
that ten pounds of glucose is manu-
factured annually for every man, wom-
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 a
vast refuse. too. u
A cheese-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, will weigh 100 pounds and keep
a horse ut 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 $50 ton at our seaboard,
Or $24, ,00O, 900, a gain of S14, ,000,O0 in for
eign markets for our grain producers,
millers and oil wells.
The department is about to issue
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
,alSes will be put up in cheap straw
board or paper, which will help to pre-
serve them.-N. Y. Journal.