New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
NO WASTE ALLOWED
 AT ENVIRONMENTS
SystematiZed Garbage Collection
 to Save Thousands Of Dollars

Washington, Oct. 3.-The War De- partment has taken elaborate and comprehensive precautions to prevent waste in the army cantonments, which will soon contain more than two million men, and in the embarka- tlon camps In the feeding of the men waste will be minimized through the fact that the food will be pre- pared under the direction of mess cooks. who will be trained by special courses in army cooking schools.
 The officers training camps have not been under the control of tho War Departm so far as the fool supplies are concerned, and the waste in those camps has been due to the lack of skilled management in the handling of food. A committee repre- senting the War Department and the United States Food Administration will also assist in dealing with prob lems of eliminating waste.
 The food administration has re- ceived from the secretary of war an announcement of a thorough going plan for conserving all the waste ma teral of the National Army camps, which will result in salvaging many thousands of dollars.
 The army's first consideration in planning this work has been the san- itary and hygienic problem. At each cantonment the wastes will be col lected and transported to single transfer station'' under the direction of the sanitary inspector. Through the use of the tWOcan system, wastes will be tightly enclosed throughout their collection. Sterilized cans will be substituted for the filled cans at the Kitchens, the nuisance of dis agreeable odors and danger from flies being reduced to a minimum. Every step in the process of reclamation and utilization is carefully safeguard ed and is under the absolute direc- tion of a sanitary force. each con- tractor being placed under heavy bonds
 Salvaging tho Scrap.
 At the transfer station, the wastes are turned over to a contractor, who will remove them to a point at least three miles distant from the reserva- ton. There the wastes will be com pletely sorted Bottles will be ster- ilized and sold for commercial use. Tin cans will be baled and the solder, tin and iron reclaimed. Paper\ which
 is estimated about five tons per day, Will De D3lcO. bOncS WILL Dc kept separate and ground for fertilizer, The hides of dead animals will be re- moved and the carcasses "reduced' for grease and fertilizer.
 The chief items of waste will be the garbage and the manure. It is Csti- mated that there are 200 animals at each cantonment, producing 120 tons of manure per day. At the date Of the report the manure from eleven cantonments had been sold for $40 900 annually
 The greatest element of saving is through the garbage. This has been sold for an annual price of $446,- 39457. The garbage from thirteen of the cantoments will be used for feed- ing swine. It is estimated the basis of experiments conducted at the Chillicotfle CantOnmcnt that the gar bage waste from ten to fiftoen mon will feed one hog and enable it to add to its. weight one pound per day. At this rate. the garDa % from these thir- teen cantonments will produce 1S,- ESQ., pounds Of pork per year.
 When not used for feeding, tho gar bagc will be "rcduccd', tha- is, eunkcd Ht nigh tcmDcrHturG tlic grease extracted, and the remainder