The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-11-12
VALUE OF BY PRODUCT.
Work of Importance from Selfish and Public
Standpoint

q 20. now have plants at many points
IN the United States FOR the manufac
} ture OF fertilizers, shipping their blood
and tankage to those points, making
their own sulphuric acid and acid
. phosphates and supplying the trade
OF each immediate section. Fertili.
zers are made OF different strength for
different soils, climates and crops, a
quick-aoting fertilizer being prepared
for garden truckers, who must get
their product into the yesy carly mar
kets, and slower acting fertilizer for
winter wheat. Practically all the cot
ton in the United States, with the ex-
ception Of Texas, is grown with fer
tilizers, and nearly all the winter
wheat producing States are now large
ly using them.
AT the fertilizer works is now pre-
pared blood albumen, which, up to
within five years ago, had been i'm
ported entirely from Europe. It is
used by calico printers in fixing GER
tain pigment oolors TO the cloth, and
is similar in appearance TO the white
of an egg. When its temperature is
raised to certain point it coagulates.
After the cloths are printed they are
steamed at temperature approximat-
ing 200 degrees Fahrenheit. This
action coagulates the albumen in the
ink, rendering it iusoluble in water,
and mechanically fixes the color in
the cloth. Albumen is also used by
tanners in finishing feathers, by MAX
ers OF certain extracts, By sugar manu-
facturers and for the clarifying of
liquors.
Dried blood is used as fertilizer
and IS s!sc beginning to De used large
ly as stock food. 1t is the most con-
centrated food we have, containing
something like 81 per cent protein,
and gives exceptionally good results
when fed to horses and other live
stock in connection with their regular
feed, two or three ounces being given
day. The Kansas City experiment
station has discovered that disease
known as the scours, which greatly
troubles young calves, can be cured
by the addition of little Of this dried
blood to the skim milk on which they
are fed. This discovery is saving
thousands Of calves every year. Ger
tain portions of tankage are ground
up into meat and largely sold for poul-
try and for the fattening Of hogs and
other live stock. Bone, coaraely gran
ulated, is used for the same purpose.
In the bone cutting department., au-
other branch Of the fertilizer busi-
ness, are made handles for knives,
razors, etc., carved and dyed to re-.
semble stag horn; also collar buttons,
pipe mouth-pieces, hone screws used
to connect the mouth-piece TO the
bowl of the meerschaum and other
pipes, dice. little square blocks used
by dental students for filing teeth,
for nursing bottle rings and shields
and bone buttons Of all kinds.
In the manufacture of the fine steel
parts of guns, bicycles. automobiles
and other machinery, the esteel is fash-
icned into its final shape when soft
and then put into box Of hard gran
ulated bone. This. box is then put
into furnace, heated to certain
color, dumped into water, and the re-
suit is that very high carbon steel
has been formed on the outside of the
parts thus treated, making them ex.
tremely hard.
Hoofs are assorted into three grades;
the white hoofs being used for GER
tain grade Of button closely resem.
bling the better quality Of pearl but
tons. A striped hoof is fattened
into plate through pressure under
heat and used in the manufacture Of
hair-pins; striped hoofs are also used
in the .anufaoture of buttons. Black
heefs and hoof scrap are used in the
manufacture of cyanide and chrome.
Scraps Of hoofs ground up into foe
powder make nitrogenous fertilizer
for grapes and other crops.
The tallow and greaee cfa carcass
are used in the manufacture IF soaps.
At certain time IN the boiling Of
soap salt is introduced into the kettle,
which precipitates the glycei,u Of the
fat together which the lye, which is
drawn off and from them is m, nufac-
cured glycerin. All grades o. soaps
are made, from the very finest ,oilet
and shaving soaps to the mottled ter
man scrubbing soaps. Washing pow.
ders are also prepared.
Curled hair is made in large quanti-
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