Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-15


housewife may be made to yield In
cash has recently been demonstrated
by Paul Bruet, a German, In London.
Bruet says that he. started on $1,000.
He began burning garbage In large
vertical cylinders, surrounded By
steam Jackets. and evaporated the
seventy-five per cent Of water in the
garbage The fatty substances were
dissolved, and as result Of the proc
ess he produced a fertilizer which IL
worth fifteen dollars q ton. SO sue.
cessful were his first operations that
he started a small company on cap.
ital of $4,000, and last year this $10.-
600 investment made profit Of
$4,000!
In many places throughout the
United States. and especially In the
Canadian northwest, there are splen.
did opportunities for the wide-awake
American to make money in the es-
tablishment Of new kind Of twine-
making factories. Farmers are now
using hemp or jute Irvine for bind.
ing their grain, at the enormous cost
of from $120 to $3.50 per ton. It is
now found that an excellent Irvine can
be made from ordinary marsh grass
and from the common wire grass"
which grows abundantly over millions
Of acres of western country.
Along the Atlantic. the Pacific and
the Gulf Of Mexico millions Of tons
OF seaweed are cast up by the waves.
It is often four and five feet In depth.
and in France, where some Of 1t is
now being used. 1t Is found that II
will gather best where large stones
are placed within tide-mark on sandy
shores. In this country there is az
yet litt1e thought Of putting seaweed
to use. and yet 1t is one of the richest
and most productive of all wastes"
One ton will produce eight pounds Of
iodine. large quantities of chloride Of
potassium, four to ten gallons Of vola-
tile oil, three or four gallons Of nap
tina. and 250 to 400 pounds of sulphate
Of ammonia. Only about 70 per cent
of the total mass Is actual waste, and
the remaining 80 per cent in each ton
is worth between $25 and $40. The
highest value is reached when It 10
turned In gelose. or vegetable isin.
glass.
Science, the wizard of the century.
touches with his fairy wand the black.
viscid coal-tar from the gas retorts,
and from the 140 pounds of gas-tar in
ton Of coal science today makes
aniline dyes numbering over 1000 dis
tinct shades. OF medicines, antisep-
tics. hypnotics and fever-allaying prep
arations 1t furnishes quinine, antipy.
rine. atropine, morphine. exalgine.
somnal, salol. chloralamide, hypnol,
and a host Of others. 1t furnishes
perfumes -heliotropine, Glove. queen
Of the meadows, cinnamon, bitter al.
monds. vanillin, camphor. wintergreen
and thymol. It has given to the
world bellite and picrite. two powerful
explosives. It supplies more than 20
flavoring extracts; Is the housekeep.
ers' ally, with benzine and naptha, the
insecticides; supplies the farmer with
ammonial fertilizers, and has given to
the photographer his two developers.
hydroquinone and likonogen. It yields
paraffin. creosote and pitch: material
for artificial paving: saccharin, a sub
stance 800 times sweeter than sugar.
1t gives us lampblack, material for red
inks. lubricating oils. varnish, Tosin.
almost our entire supply of ammonia.
and other things whose names would
fill page.
Not many years ago. when beef
was killed 40 per cent of the animal
was waste. Today nothing is lost
"but Its dying breath"
H It is true. as Mr.. Rockefeller says,
that today there is a gold mine not
so very far from every hustling.
brainy. ambitious young man in the
United States"-and many Of these
mines" may be found In the utilizing
of wastes"