Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-05-10
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stsspesssi fassRly ssn-sn tfs nitrate beds a
Chile fo5 she aitFagen. Many preeess,ss
foe extracting nIfrngen frou tsse alf
Htlese II ls 10 he feuad In saperabunst
aat quantities. since IN constitutes
aheat three feayths of aA nf @ar az.
1 iaosphese, have tteea developed but
ufsaas es ttlens have iroyet 80 expensive
as TO De pgohibitive except In ttEses ID
emergency. Recently, however. thers
] has bsea discovered aud pue la use
{ uew process that is said to reduce
I tho horsepower required t0 extract n
given amount of nitrogen to oae~
twelfth of the former proportion. The
/ seSusr Of this win probably be that in
/ the years tt,e cone the world will find
cheaper source Of aitrosen right al
4 band In the air than has ever beer
found in the nitrate beds OF Chile,
II has also been found that through
the cooking process big supplies Of nj
trogen can be extracted from coal. Ell.
/ gineers now estimate that IL we were
10 coke twice as much coal as we have
In the past, which would sfilI be less
than D per cent of our total coal out
put, the nitrogen that we could secure
therefrom wonid be more than enough
TO meet all of our needs rs Il nation
either in peace or in war. in the cox
Ing Of coal substance Is recovered
which is called by the chemist "ben-
zol." The expenses of recovery are
not excessively great, and Just at the
time when our government IVES an
nouncing that there was no real nj
trate deposit anywhere in sight In the
! United States of really important
value, the descriptions of the Haber
1 process of extraction from the air and
OF the processes for recovery from coal
have been most timely.
/ Not only win the new processes Of
extracting hountiful supply of nitro
gen from the air and from coal be an
advantage SO us in the matter of de-
Tending our country, and In putting
4 1t upon an Independent basis from a
world standpoint, but 1t Will be an i'm
mense advantage TO US In our agricul-
ture, The most expensive element
that we have to put into the soil TO
I farm protitably is nitrogen. We ordf-
narily buy it in the shape of nitrate,
green bone, or decomposed animal mat.
ter, and the farmers fertilizer bin is
always heavy IL he wants to produce
large crops. A cheap source of nitro
gen, such as we might expect from a
system of cheap filtration from the air,
viii enable the American farmer, large
! rs his crops may have been In the past,
to produce two bushels of grain where
formerly he produced one, and to help
feed a rapidly expanding world popu-
,lation.