The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-07-01
WEALTH FROM WASTE.

therefore the basis Of all industry ana
commerce, is land. The farm outputs
of this country, amounting to the enor-
NOUS value of 50, 900, 900, 900 annually,
could be increased tWofold with sclen-
tific methods of agriculture and an ap-
probation Of the small things that daily
go to waste, says DR.. NJ. c. Peters in
his weekly Success Talks.
The time was when hundreds of mil
lions of bushels of the Indian corn crop
went to waste. The surplus was
burned or used as a fertilizer, but the
greater part was left to rot. Now one
corporation alone, the Glucose Sugar
Refining Company, uses 100, 600 bushels
of corn every day to make useful
products.
The great glucose industry is built
upon waste. The corn grain contains,
besides the starchy product, a tiny
germ which was formerly crushed with
the starch. Now it is separated and
converted into oil, and the gluten which
is left is made into a starch and the
residue for food.
Corn is now turned into at least thir-
ty different commercial products, the
great production of alcoholic drinks,
varnishes, perfumeries, Illuminating
fluids and the products of confectionery
factories all indicating the universally
of the employment of corn.
Formerly cornstalks were burned or
allowed to rot. An acre produces a
ton of stalks. The pith can be manu-
featured into excellent paper; it also
produces glucose.
To manufacture a ton of corn paper
requires less than SIS, while to manu-
featured a ton Of rag or wood pulp pa
per requires upwards of S75. Yet So,
600, 900 tons of stalks annually rot on
the ground. Out of the hard fiber, be-
sides pipes, can be made cardboard for
boxes, but little is utilized in this way.
Guncotton, smokeless powder, varnish,
artificial leather, rubber substitutes,
insulating material for electrical appa-
~ratus, linoieums, floor coverings, papier
mache, golf balls and many other things
of utility can be made from cornstalks.
The pith of the stalks is already used
for the lining Of vessels to make them
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watertight. go -
Cotton seed used to be thrown away,
yet valuable oil can be made from it,
and also a nutritive food, compressed
in the form of a cake, for cattle and
horses. This former waste now gives
an annual revenue of over $50, 900, 900.
Our swamps and boys in the United
States are practically useless. Swamps
properly drained would add annually
hundreds of millions of dollars to the
wealth of the Country for agricultural
purposes.
From the boys millions of dollars
worth of peat could be taken annually,
which would serve the purpose of coal
and be much cheaper. The Irish and
other European ~nationalities use peat
almost exclusively for fuel. Those turf
boys are rich in carbon and nitre, and
as our nitre fields are becoming ex-
hausted it would be well for the Gov
eminent to give some attention to their
utilization.
In time, too, our coal beds will be
exhausted, and then it may be neces-
sary to use these MOSES and bOglands.
The sea holds a source of riches
which as yet has not been made to con-
tribute much to the National wealth.
Men have tried to take gold from the
waters, but they might employ their
time more proitably in collecting sea-
weed. California has been first in the
field to recognize the valCe Of this n:-
rine product. San Francisco ships ar
nualiy TO China 500, 600 worth. This
article is a good winter food Ter oxen,
sheep and pigs. II bad tines in Ire
lard it forms q staple feed for the peas
antrv of the west coast.
Some Of the beneficent preparations
in use today from seaweed are iodine
ard bromine, from which we get acid
and the iodines of sodium, mercury,
magnesium and calcium. From sea-
tweed also are extracted coloring mat
tiers, G volatile oil, and it's ingredients
are used in photography, and, OWING to
its salty flavor, it is said to keep away
moths. Being rich in soda, it makes a
strong manure for heavy crops Yet
irifrors Of tons a~outd re New =
lard coasts annually go t. waste. Ok
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