Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-12
t alks on Thrift

dear,
Nor are granarics filed in May,
Save II be with harvest Of former
years
stored UP for rainy day.
The seasons will keep their own true
time,
It's honest labor and stcadfast thrift
That alone arc blessed by Cod"
Alfred Austin.
prominent aericulturist SAYS that
many American farmers nave not got
down to farming as :; business and
that the richness OF their soil is the
only thing that saves them from fail
urc.
Speaking OF the waste OF fodder. n.
SAYS:
There are weeds enough in many
corn fields 10 fatten a carload of sheen.
allowing them to cat the down stalks
the lower blades, and the low hanging
cars that the farmer would hardly miss
we are great MASTERS OF corn fod-
der. All through Ohio and Indiana, and
even III New England, one sees farm
ers busy taking down their corr shocks,
all weather heatcn on the outside.
huskinG them out by hand, throwing
the corn into piles on the ground. to
he picked up "a ain. and then tyiLg UP
the fodder. leaving much OF the valu-
able fodder outside 10 be weathered be-
fore II is fed TO the stock
Even greater waste is that in. the
corn that is not harvested. Iowa. ILL.,
nois. Eastern Kansas and Nebraska
and Southern Minnesota had about 49,
100000 acres of corn last year, of which
probably not more tiian one fourth was
harvested for the silo or the shock or
for shrcddnE. The rest goes to waste,
and II amounts to over nc-third OF the
f"cdn. value OF the whole crop"
Hnt the city dweller. he he business
man or manufacturer. cannot afford
to point the finger Of scorn at the
farmer as a waster. because waste il
rampant in tho cities likewise
Lewis T.. Theis, vino has investigated
the subject thoroughly, is authority for
the statement that unnecessary coal
smoke costs American industries and
american cities very great many mill
lions Of dollars yearly
Black smoke consists largely of I'M
consumed 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 Of everything
they touch.
The pollution of our atmosphere with
smoke places heavy burden upon US
II greatly increases the death rate II
lowers our efficiency. Engineers have
estimated that the cost TO the city OF
cleveland because of it's smoking fac
tories is S6,o00,nO0 year The loss to
Chicago is estimated at s17,6OO,00
year, The people of Pittsburgh suffer
an annual loss of $4,000. 900 through
smoke. The annual bill on account OF
smoking factory chimneys is reckoned
at $500. 900, 600
one Pittsburgh manufacturing COM
panN alone has effected a saving OF
$4,000 year through the abolition OF
smoke In its chimneys by means OF
double steam pressure and mechanical
stokers.
installation Of smoke consuming ma
chinery and proper stocking, engineers
claim, VIII prevent much of the loss
now suffered from this source.
We are horrified by the stupendous
waste being wrought by the destruc-
i've forces of war OH the other side OF
the globe. Let us not overlook the fact
that. individually and collectively, we
Americans are responsible for an ag-
sregate of waste which is almost il
not quite as stupcndous and the fact
that history's most devastating war liz
now In progress should impel us to
wage unrcmitting war on waste OF all
kinds In our own country
t. ID. MacGREGOR.