The sun., 1916-11-26

nets that automatically extract all for
elsn substances Of iron. Their number
n variety 10 Astonishing, and they
rsnse from hairpins to tin cans, and in
CRUDE bottle tops. wire and . hundred
other things.
The Kitchen refuse thus put through
me mill" not only yields Q brownish.
I~ n substance but has an odor not dis
s.mi'ar to glue. but many chemicals a.
we'll which are vital to the food Of horses
And cattle.
Chemicals From 0psss>s.
The men in charge Of the scientific end
of tne establishment have discovered the
sreat value Of marsh grasses. even Of
weeds. Of the high percentage Of
protein that many Of them contain. 50
"vw. IN ADDITION to human food. and
ousliy collectlng all the available rank
srasses which cattle never would touch,
ana IN the drying department Of the
.itchen 10 extracting chemicals from
mem n inserting them In animal foods
consisting In part Of one time garbage.
me crying or e~vaporating establish
ment IL . huge building that once used
70 be q malt brewery. Just now II is
81 the height Of It's activity Of course.
because vegetables and fruit have zen
pouring into It all summer long. Women
LOT tne most par 10 the work. which
consists chiefly Of sorting carefully the
apples and plums, the cabba9es ana let.
luce. after they have been dr,ei out.
winter. ~
cologne At present possesses 2l6 no.
alto storage houses. the largest of which
- IN a part Of the older Notifications
OF the city. None Of the a1s were con.
structed according to their present speci-
ncations until the city had learned a
costly lesson In 1914. q lesson that cost
Just o an even third Of all It's avail
able storage potatoes.
Lost Third Of Supply.
In that year. as now, the potatoes
were put away according to grades In
lots OF about 500 hundredweiEht. In
evitably they began to rot because there
nad not been made the proper provision
for air. and before the damage In the
various cellars had been checked 80 DER
cent. Of the. supply was spoiled. The
loss was hard to bear. but II set Cologne
to work Immediately to invent some new
J OF storage methods.
This was achieved by the construction
In each storage room of q series of
wooden conduits running along the floor
from each wall to the wall opposite.
These conduits are made OF strips OF
lath or hin wood, some two Inches
apart. The conduit itself 10 about eight
inche square. Standing upright at the
juncture Of each set Of conduits 10 q
third.
The potatoes are then piled in on tor
Of h conduits to the height Of the up
rights. The air car pass freely under.
meath the potatoes along the floor and
among them through the upright con.
Quits. and a escape and permeate the
potatoes through the wide gaps between
the laths. This simple ~expedient. Co.
logne has found. has reduced the Loss
from 10 to ~ per cent.
h city kitchen. the evaporation
plant. tho potato storage system and the
refuse Transformation plant all have
their separate managers. The whole
combined institution. however, 10 under
the direction Of Director Adolphs Of the
Cologne street cleaning department. who
worked up to that position from that O,
a mason. and who irst found full scope
for his indomitablue energy when the
war came and the city on the Rhine
had to be saved from need II not star.
walton n had to face countless prob.
lens that had never been known before