The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-05-14
No. 19-Ths Cost q Waste

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The Seasons will keep thei own true time
r You can hurry nor furrow nor sod:
That alone are blessed By God.n .,,
A prominent agriculturist
says that many American farm
ers have not got down to farm
ing as a business, and that the
richness of their soil is the only
thing that saves them from
failure.
Speaking of the waste of
fodder, he says:
There are weeds enough in
many corn fields to fatten a
carload of sheep. allowing them
to eat the down stalks, the low
er blades. and the low-hanging
ears that the farmer hardly
miss.
We are great MASTERS of
corn fodder, All through In
diana and Ohio, and even in
New England, one sees farmers
busy taking down their corn
Shocks, all weather beaten
on the outside, husking them
out by hand, throwing the corn
into piles on the ground, to be
picked up again, and then ty-
ing up the fodder, leaving
much of the valuable fodder
outside to be weathered before
it is fed to the stock.
Even greater waste is that
in the corn that is not harvest
ed. Iowa, Illinois, eastern
Kansas and Nebraska, and
southern Minnesota had about
forty million acres of corn last
year, of which probably not
more than one.fourth was har-
vested for the silo or the shock
or for shedding. The rest goes
to waste, and it amounts to
over one-third of the feeding
value of the whole CROP
But the city dweller, be he
business man or manufacturer,
can not afford to point the fin
ger of scorn at the farmer as a
. waster, because waste is ram
pant in the cities likewise.
Lewis E.. Theis. who has in.
vestigated the subject thor
oughly, is authority for the
statement that unnecessary
coal smoke costs American in
:, dustries and American cities a
very great many millions of
. dollars yearly.
Black smoke consists largely
of unconsumed coal particles
thrown into the atmosphere by
improper stoking. Smoke al
so contains acid of value which
not only are usually wasted,
but they are also destructive of
everything they touch.
t The pollution of our atmo.
! sphere with smoke places a
heavy burden upon US. 1t
greatly increases the death
rate. II lowers our efficiency.
Engineers have estimated that
, the cost to the city of Cleve-
land because of its smoking
factories is $4,000. 900 a year.
The loss to Chicago is estimat.
ed at $17, 900. 600 a year. The
people of Pittsburgh suffer al
annual loss of 500. 600, 900 thru
1 smoke. The annual bill on
1 account of smoking factor,
e chimneys is reckoned at 5000,
OOO, 900.
One Pittsburg manufactur
ing company alone has effected
a saving of $50, 600 a yea1
through the abolition of smoke
in it's chimneys by means o
double steam pressure ant
o mechanical stokers.
+ Installation of smoke-co n
o Stunning machinery and prope'
stocking, engineers claim, will
T prevent much of the loss now
t suffered from this source.
We are Mortified by the stu
pendous waste being wrough
by the destructive forces of wa
on the other side of the globe
Let us not overlook the fac
;. that, individually and collec
d lively, we Americans r res
ponsible for an aggregate O
e waste which is almost if no
l. quite as stupendous, and tn
d fact that history's most devast
ating war is now in progress
should impel us to wage un
! renting war on waste OF al
kinds in our own country.
=. The First National
It Bank
J. OF Bottineau