The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-02-11

therefore, IL happens that when Prof.
Ernest Mas of Brooklyn eniigrated from
France to the United States, he as good
as increased cur gold reserve by MANY
millions. If he had not refined corn oil
we should not now be raising such havoc
with the French ard German potato sugar
trade At one time we thought the trust
| was aiming to make use Of this secret
without paying for it.. But he stood UP
| Tor his rights. and was prepared with his
| knowledge of corn oil as weapon, to
night the great enemy single handed; and
me m lERshot was that he. is now the, chem
list the trust. =. 2 5; =: ,s-''
The trust has only to put the price OF
| corn OIL a little lower than that of cot ton.
| seed oil. which is compare lively a main
| product, in order to create a market for
| far' more than it can produce. Because
OF the consequent decreased demand for
cotton-seed oil the experts are buster than
ever in seeking new uses for it, One
| great difficulty at present is the corrup-
| ton of the Oil by the bad seeds which
| go into the press with the good, and
certain experts hope to devise some, proc
ess Of treating them in tanks Of liquid,
so that the bad ones will float and be
carried off as waste and the good ones
will sink. Half of the cotton-seed of
the South now goes into the manure pile
IT the demand for the oil was equal to
all that could be supplied, it would go
far toward reconciling the Southern
| planter to the fall in the price of cot
| ton.
Possibly one day the chemists will be
| able to make oils as we'll as garbage
into paving blocks. They do make them
, into substitutes for rubber. Prof. Mas
| has Vulcanized corn Oil. So successfully,
IN fact are waste products now used as
substitutes for rubber that of the rubber
goods OF all Kinds, from combs to hot
water bags, only a fraction Of the ma
| te11al used in fresh rubber from Brazil.
| Prof. Mas believes that. the time will
come when we shall import scarcely any
rubber ard the farmers gum boots will
| be grown at home instead of on the
| banks or the Amazon. With cast-off
| rubber worth from 10 to Is cents, pound
| only that part of the manufactured prod
uct which is distributed in atoms by
wear and the few old overshoes in the
country districts that GO where lost pins
go. escape the crook of that modern
shepherd, the ragnan.. AS compensation
for wearing rubber over and over again
the lot of the millionaire as well as of
the Poor man--we get our rubber goods
for half what they would cost if made
entirely from fresh Para rubber.
Though the Western farmer, owing to
the utilization Of the germ of the kernel
of corn, has prospered at the expense of
his Southern brother who grows cotton.
the sugar-cane plantatins Of Louisiana
nave the joke on the Northern paper
manufacturers. For lining the barrels
IN which sugar is shipped, a good, heavy
brown paper Is made out of fibre of the
sugar cane; after all the sap has been
pressed out of it, and number of the
Dig planta tions now have their own big
paper mills. Nj, N 4 lei. r. ~. 'I,l
'The greatest revolution In paper making
since the introduction Of wood pulp |
seems near at hand. Both American
and European experts have succeeded in
pn0H
Ten years hence the farmer will be baling
a hitherto useless by-product and ship |
ping 1t off to the paper factories. This |
will put money In his pocket and furnish |
the paper mills with material cheaper |
than wood pulp. Then we shall no longer |
newspapers to read, and so much more |
energy of nature can be put to some 9TH |
er use in serving humanity.
There is a manufacturer in New York !
who Is making a heavy brown paper for |
building purposes out of the straw which |
is past its usefulness as bedding for |
horses These stables are glad enough to |
have this refuse carted away So it is |
much cheaper than fresh straw which is |
shipped from out Of town. The contain
ination which it has suffered In nowise |
interferes with it's value as fiber and dis |
appears completely in the process Of man.
ufacture., 49,. a., -. =.
the shreds of cotton which are left in the
hulls by the pickers. The printers ink on
old newspapers gives to cardboard just
the proper tint. Paper Is also made out
Of the sage brush of the Western plains
and out of the undigested food in the
paunches of beeves. Only recently has
the discovery been made that the Shiny
waste from the soda ash works at SYRIA
cuse, which has hitherto been nothing
but an encumbrance to the land, can be
refined into the cheapest bleaching agent
that the paper mills have been able to
obtain. --~t .'r. .: /
No parts, except their bleats and
squeals, Of the hogs and steers which
meet their fate in the slaughter house of
Chicago and Kansas City now escape
utilization in some form or other. But the
chemists and experts are still working to
obtain better results. Among these is
Mr.. Duff, the chemist of the National
Prpvisioner of New York.
Oleoma rgarine is the best known of the
by-products of the packing houses OF this
| generation. On account of the high tenn
! perature to which the fats are subjected,
oleomargine must be free from tubercu-
losis. There is nothing in the process
of making butter from cream to kill
germs; and next to her lungs a cows
bag is the great breeding place for them.
Oleomargarine has not only cheapened
meat but it has given to the poor-some
| stitute for butter which, If not as palata-,
BILE, is purer often than the real article.
Aside from using the contents Of the
paunch for the manufacture of paper, it
Is also pressed into bricks of fuel for
| frying the steers fat The chips and the
refuse from making knife handles, but
tons and combs from the horns goes to
| the fertilizer WOrks-a nav which gets
every atom of a carcass that cannot be
otherwise utilized. The hoofs are sorted
INTO two kinds, black and white the white
hoofs being shipped in large quantities
to China, where they are made into So
called ivory ornamental articles.
The Germans, who are cleverer than the
Chinese in the tricks of manufacture and
Imitation, and can paint a piece Of
wrought iron with gilt and sell it for.
| steel in competition with the real Ameri
can product over the countersssof New
York hardware stores, take great guam
titles of bones (Which have been boiled
and stripped)i from the packing houses,
| from which they make knife handles,
/ piano keys and other substitutes for
| Ivory. The raw bone is used in making
bone-black, which is an important item
| In the refining of sugar. tsstt
| Not all of the sinews go into glue, gela-
tine and neat's-foot OIL but the best of
! them are treated by a process which
transforms them into good substitute
/ for whalebOne Those of the intestines
that are not used for sausage castings are
made into fertilizer. Brewers use many
Of the bullocks' weasands, and the re-
mainder are made into castings for fancy
1 sausages and croquettes. Blood is cooked
4 and pressed into buttons, and liquid blood,
whipped free of its coagulatory principle,
i febrine, is shipped Ia casks to the sugar
4 refneries The digestive juices Of the
q steer have not yet been utilized, but
experts have them on the run. and expect
4 that thew will soon be made a source Of