The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-05-15
TALKS ON THRIFT
No. 19-THE COST OF WASTE

american Bankers Association
THIRD ANNUAL SERIES
Men do not real in the spring, my
dear,
Nor are granaries filled in May,
Save it be with a harvest of former
DEAR,
Stored up for a rainy day.
The seasons will keep their own
true time,
You can hurry nor furrow nor sod;
It's honest labor and steadfast thrift
That alone are blessed by God"
Alfred Austin.
A prominent agriculturist says
that many American farmers have
not got down to farming as a bust
ness, and hat the richness OF their
soil is the only thing that
them from failure.
Speaking of the waste OF fodder,
he says:
lEeI6 are WccuS Cnou6h III hiohy
cornfields to fatten a carload of
sheep, allowing them to eat the
down stalks, the lower blades and
the low-hanging ears that the farmer
would hardly miss.
I'VE are great MASTERS OF corn
fodder. All through Ohio and In
diana, and ever in New England, n
--.. f,r,or, b,,ey IN L. ino dawn thpiI
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 tying 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 hat is not harvested. Iowa,
Illinois, eastern Kansas and Ne
braska and southern Minnesota had
about forty million acres OF corn
last year., of which probably not one.
fourth was harvested for the silo or
the stock or for ~shredding. The rest
goes to waste, and it to
over OIe-lUlIu VI lHC lCCulh5 'diuC
OF the whole crop.
But the city dweller, be he bust
ness man or manufacturer, can not
afford to point the finger CT Scorn
at the farmer as a waster, because
waste is rampant in the cities like
wise.
Lewis E. Theis, who has investi-
. H. -,Ii~1t 1OrD,,nIIx ic IL
thority for the statement hat I'M
necessary coal smoke costs Ameri-
can industries and American cities
a very great many millions of dol
lars yearly.
Black smoke consists largely of
unconsumed coal particles thrown
into the atmosphere by improper
stocking. Smoke also contains acids
of value which not only are usually
wasted, but they are also destructive
to everything they touch.
The pollution of our atmosphere
with smoke places a heavy burden
upon us. 1t greatly increases the
death rate. 1t lowers our efficiency.
Engineers have estimated that the
COSl W tlt CITY VI SleNCldlu Ndu
of is smoking factories is $4,000, 900
a year. The loss to Chicago is es-
timated at $4,000 900 a year. The
people of Pittsburg suffer an annual
loss of $40. 100000 through smoke.
The annual bill on account of smok-
ing factory chimneys is reckoned at
$500, 600, 900.
One Pittsburg manufacturing COM
rany alone has effected a saving OF
100000 a year through the aboli-
ton of smoke in it's chimneys by
means of double steam pressure and
mechanical stokers.
Installation of understanding
machinery and proper stocking, en-
gineers claim. will prevent nue. of
the loss now suffered from this
source.
We are Mortified by the stipend
Gus waste being wrought by the
structive forces of war on the other
side of the globe. Let us not over
look the fact that, individually and
collectively we Americans are re-
sponsible for an aggregate of waste
which is almost if not quite as stu
pendous, and the fact hat history's
most devastating war is now in