The Glenwood post., 1917-11-17
War Department Prepares Plans
to Enforce the Most
Rigid Economy.
SOME use FOR EVERYTHING
Effect Of New Plan 10 to Turn Into
Large Profit What Hitherto Has
Been 4 Very Considerable
Expense.

Washington.-The war department
mas taken elaborate and comprehen-
sive precautions to prevent waste in
the army cantonments, which will soon
contain more than 100000 men, and
In the embarkation camps. In the
feeding of the men waste will be mini.
mixed through the fact that the food
will be prepared 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 the war de-
partment 80 far as the food 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 representing the
war department and the United States
food administration will also assist in
dealing with problems Of eliminating
waste.
The food administration has re-
ceived from the secretary Of war an
announcement Of 4 thorough going
plan for conserving all the waste ma
tsFial Of the National army camps.
which will result in salvaging many
thousands of dollars.
| Collecting the Waste.
The army's first consideration in
planning this work has been the sani-
tary and hygienic problem. At each
eantonment the wastes will be collect
ed and transported to q single ''trans-
fer station" under the direction of the
sanitary inspector. Through the use
Of the two-can system, wastes will be
tightly enclosed throughout their col
lection. Sterilized cans will be sub
sttuted for the filed cans at the
Kitchens, the nuisance Of disagreeable
odors and danger from nies being re-
duced to . minimum. Every step In
the process Of reclamation and utiliIa.
ton is carefully safeguarded and il
under the absolute direction Of san
placed under heavy bonds.
At the transfer station, the wastes
are turned over to q contractor, who
will remove them to point at least
three miles distant from the reserya.
hon. 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
be baled. Bones will be kept separate
and ground for fertilizer. The hides
Of dead animals will be removed and
the carcasses reduced" for grease and
fertilizer.
The chief items Of waste will be the
garbage and the manure. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 1900 animals at
each cantonment, producing 12O tons
Of manure per day. At the date OF
the report the manure from IL can
tonments had been sold for $24O,0OO
annually.
Big Saving Through Garbage.
The greatest element Of saving Il
through the garbage. This has been
sold for an annual price Of $448,.
494.57. The garbage from 18 Of the
cantonments will be used for feeding
swine. 1t is estimated on the basis Of
experiments conducted at the Chilli.
cothe cantonment, that the garbage
waste from 10 to 16 men will feed one
hog and enable it to add to Its weight
one pound per day. At this rate, the
garbage from these 13 cantonments
will produce 1s,9sO,O00 pounds Of pork
Per year.
When not used for feeding, the gar
bage will be reduced" that is. cooked
at high temperature, the grease e1-
tracted. and the remainder ground and
used for fertilizer or feeds.
By the method Of incineration for.
meriy in use, not only would all these
valuable waste materials have been
Asstroyed, but 1t would have cost ap-
prodmately 100000 for the installa-
tioa of moderator plants and an an
nual charge Of approximately $6oo,OoO
lse their operation. When we add to
thls saving the amount annually ~
eslvsd By the goyexusnsnt non these
Westes, the nst. saving tho drst year
ansunts to q, TOT SO
The effect Of this nsw plan. there
fore, 10 not only to coaserve large
%uantihes Of valuable food wastes, fer.
filisers, etc.. but to turn into . large
1roat what has hitherto been . very
1eoadefable expense.
oarmans oooaIva chIneea.