The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-13

The Cost of Waste.
Men do not reap in the spring, my
Nor are granaries filed in May.
Save il be with a harvest ofsformer
stored up for a former day
The seasons wiz keep their own
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 10 farming as a business. ana
chaI the richness OF their soil IS the
only thing that saves them from
Speaking of the waste of fodder.
There are weeds enough in many
corn fields 10 fatten carload Oh
sheep, allowing them to eat the down
stalks, the lower blades. and the low
hanging ears that the farmer would
hardly miss.
fodder. All through Ohio and IndI-
ana. 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 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 that is not harvested. Iowa, III
inois. 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 harvested for the silo o.
the shock or for shredding. The resi-
goes to waste. and it amounts to over
one-third of the feeding value OF the
whole crop
Bue the city dwel1er. be he busi-
! ness man or manufacturer. can not
afford TO point the finger of scorn At
the farmer as waster. because waists
is rampant in the cities likewise.
Lewis z. Theis, who has invests
gated the subject thoroughly, is au-
thority for the statement that unnec-
Industries and American cities
very great many millions of dollars
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
of everything they touch.
The pollution of our atmosphere
with smoke places a heavy burden
upon US. 1t greatly Increases the
death rate. It lowers our efficiency.
Engineers have estimated that the
cost to the city of Cleveland because
of its smoking factories is s6,0oo,oeo
a year The loss to Chicago Is estI-
mated ut s17. 100000 a year. The
people of Pittsburg suffer an annual
loss of S1O.O0O,O00 through smoke
The annual bill on account OF smok-
ing factory chimneys is reckoned at
$500. 900 900.
One Pittsburg manufacturing COM
pany alone has effected a saving o!
$4,000 a year through the abolition
of smoke in its chimneys by means
of double steam pressure ana
mechanical stokers.
Installation of smoke-consUminS
machinery and proper stocking. en-
sineers claim. will prevent much OF
the loss now suffered from this
source.
We are Mortified by the stipend
Gus waste being wrought by the de-
structve forces OF war on the other
sde of the globe. Let US not overlook
the fact that individually and collect
lively. we Americans are responsible
for an aggregate of waste which IS
almost If not quite as stupendous.
and the fact that history's most de-
vastating war is now in progress
should impel us to wage unren1it-
ting war on waste of all kinds in our
own country.