The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-06
URGE ANALYSIS OF
EACH CITY'S GARBAGE
The Waste of Human Food and Stock
Feed Thus Revealed Will Lead to
Immediate Reforms.

Have your city food chemist analyz'
your city garbage from week to weel
and publish prominently what he find
as an index of food saving or waste II
your community is the suggestion The
L. S. department of agriculture is max
ing to municipal authorities throughout
the country. Where there is no officia
chemist, the department points out loca
chemists capable of determining percent,
ages of fats, protein, starch and organic
matter wasted in garbage can render
great service to the nation by volunteer.
| ing to make these analyses in their To-
calities.
! Vast amounts of bread, meat and ed
ible fats are wasted in garbage and tons
of valuable feedstuff for animals are
lost to the food supply of the nation by
usual garbage reduction or disposal meth.
DDS. One of the first results from the
| careful analysis of city garbage should
be the passage Of more rigid enforce,
ment OF garbage collection ordinances, re.
quiring that no glass, tin, wood, burnt
matches, paper, string or inorganic trash
be mixed with the vegetable material,
meat scraps, or bones which can be used
for feed
This dual collection of garbage and
trash is being rigidly enforced by Ger
many in all cities of 10000 people. Gar
hage so collected from a populate of
100000 people in Germany, although
the German garbage pail always has been
far leaner than the American one and is
especially light at this period furnished
briquettes rich in protein which when fed
to dairy cattle produced 100000 TO
100000 quarts of milk daily.
In most American cities, however, gar
bage is sent to reduction plants, where
all the fat and oil it contains is recovered
for use in making soap or greases. The
residue after the oil is extracted is used
as fertilizer or dumped into the ocean.
This practice has been highly profitable
because the American garbage pail is
very rich in fat, American garbage aver
aging per cent of fat, while German
garbage rarely shows even | per cent of
fat, as the German people never have
been wasteful of animal or other fats
Another reason for the use OF the reduc-
nances prevent the use of garbage for
feeding animals, particularly dairy cows,
although there is no valid hygienic OBJ
lection to the use of dried and properly
sterilized garbage as food for cattle or
hogs.
The department specialists believe that
as the thrift idea gains ground less and
less fat will be thrown into the garbage
pail and are hopeful that the time is not
far distant when the amount of fat will
make reduction for the recovery of oils
hardly worth while. This will mean that
a lot of excellent and valuable foodstuff |
now being wasted as food will never get |
into the garbage pail. Even when all fat |
is eliminated, however. and waste of |
bread and cereals and meat has been re-
duced to a minimum, the garbage pail |
nevertheless will contain in the form of |
parings, plate scraps and trimmings
vast amount of material which should be |
and used as feed for hogs, cat
tie or poultry. First, however the peo-
pie must face the facts and know the
truth of their waste. and in bringing this
waste home local chemists can render eff
fective service.