The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-08-12
SAW DUST MADE INTO
FOOD FOR MAN AND EEAST,
New York World.)

more than two-thirds of the working
population of the earth.
This means all the workers among
more than billion people.
The value of their product runs into
hundreds of billions of dollars The
farm products of the United States
alone are worth nearly ten billions a
year now.
All the while there are billions of
food material going to waste in the
jungleS of the tropics
In South America, in Central Africa,
in parts of India and Burmah and
Central America vegetation is so lux
urious that it simply chokes itself A
clearing left unattended is obliterated
in a year.
Hitherto there has been no means
of utilizing this tremendous waste
Now means has been found, and now
that good beginning has been made
the new industry will grow rapidly.
First OF all a process has been in
vented for converting sawdust into
sugar. All that is needful is to put
| the sawdust into weak solution Of
sulphurous acid and put this under
pressure equivalent to about 100
pOuN1S Oh 'StSdIn pressure.
| Then the acid is separated out, and
what is left is very. friab1e sort of
cellulose fiber which is one-quarter a
W-grade sugar. This is mixed with
a little oolasses or some kind of crude
] oil to form a product known as sac
cbGllose.
BETTER THAN OATS.
! Weight for weight this is better
/ Sood for cattle and horses than the
/ best grade of oats. 1t has been tried
in England and as soon as the animals
iget accustomed to the new food,
which takes about month, they begin
to gain in weight and strength. Of
course, they cannot as yet feed exclu-
Sively upon this, but already thous
ands of tons of this sacchlose have
been used ia a mixed diet.
! A colt which was dying was put on
this diet and in six months gained
25e pounds, is now in fine condition
and gaining steadily.
| Colliery ponies thrive upon it much
more than upon ordinary fare. Cat
tie fed upon it make a high quality of
milk and butter, and hogs so fed
produce an exceptionally fine quality
hof bacon
; Besides the sugar obtained from this
iDrOcess there are by7products of great
value, for example, fusel oil, which has
sgone up SO rapidly il price and is now
! worth $500 a ton.
J From the saWdust so treated they
Z can also make a good grade of brew
: ing sugar, a material for roads, large
5 quantities. of the material being used
: in new process of making synthetic
Z rubber. Also linoleum and a very
! cheap and effective kind of electrical
insulaIlgn. Also butyric acid, which
is used jn giving olema,garine butter
taste. Also anacetic acid, furfurol and
forma&aehyde.
! SUGAR FERMENTABLE
I Also this sugar is fermentable and
will produce about thirty to thirty five
gallons of alcohol per ten of saw dust
And these are only few of the things
which have been tried so far
The process, as may be imagined, is
very cheap and all that is needed is
unlimited quantities of cheap wood and
corresponding quantities of sulphurous
acid.
Tons OF sulphur products are now
blown away into the air in various in
4 duStrial processes.
I Now the wonderful thing about the
! jung]es of the tropics is that a large
4 part of them are situated npon or close
/ to pi2teaus, or close TO mountain
! ranges and, of course, to have jungle
I the rainfall must be heavy.
. This means enormous quantities of
! water power.
! In the heart aef South america, in
1 Central Africa and Don the slopes of the
Himal2yaS ARE an extraordinary num-
Der OF eataracts, nifrny of them as large
or larger than Niagara, and yielding
enough power to jolrn ten times all
t the present machinery of the world.
j These waterfalls are the solution of
fife and industry ia 1he trOpSss. They
twill be harnessed like Niagara to
make elactridBy.
ELECTRICITY is the III OSt easily trans
SntOrted kind of power known. EQuanti-
lttIeS of III suftiGent ttG run grea- mills
t!szad raiirSad trains aRd mines can be
fsasrried for one Hundred miles or more
6Ner a vine.
ELECTRICITY WE'LL WORK.
1t will not be human labor which
'S:iH cut np the vast Jungles OF the
tropics and convert ;tAem Into SEW
dss,, but electricity from the water
fails. In the steaming tropics the COM
biaatiOn of heat and humidity makes
Nvofsk extremely difficult. But even a
white man can live in 'the tropics If
he can sit In breeze from an else-
trio fan and has nothing more 10 do
than 70 turn little switches which con
troll his water wheels and dynamos
and transmission lines
Even the negroes of the tropics wifi
work If they have nothing more to do
shan 10 sit in comfortable seat and
guide huge saving machines which
will go through the jungle as a now
ing machine goes through a field of
wheat.
All the hard work will be done with |
the electrical hands and arms, and the |
savages of the jungle who never heard |
of electricity will soon be working with |