The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-19
Nftfate Problem Nay Be So1Ded By
Manu- acturi,1g Ne1D Fertilizer Here

HAatfar-.
Where lime and carbon are pldntifpl
and electrieity is cheap it matters fat
whether the Chilli. saltpeter beds be,
come exhausted in 1925 or sooner, The
price of the new compound depends
apon the cost OF the yelectric eafrFept
used in producing It, II is estimotad
that the horse produces 81 ,230 pounde
of manure yearly, containing 126 pounds
Of nitrogen, while the electric horsk
in the same period win fix more than
$40, pounds Of nitrogen In thesfofm OF
calcium eyanamide, which IL consider.
ed equal 70, Chill saItpeter, or nitrate
of soda, weight for weight Of the nj
trogen content, and is eonaidered even
superior to nitrate Of soda as h ferti.
lizer. .He l2yM IN. - "a 49,
In certain Of the sugar cane districts
OF these Islands, and on Oahu in3parti2
eular, there is talk Of reduced yields
per acre due TO nm increasing amount Of
alkali found in the soil. As the fields
a@NGted are low.lVing II seems teRson-
able to assume that these fields are
becoming more and more impregpated
nv wash water from more eievated
fields with the residues Of the sodium
nitrate fertilizers SO plehtifully used at
the present time. In the new lime.
nitrogen compound we NAV find = bless,
ing in disguise, as lime is Of Geknowl.
edged virtue in agriculture Nhcreas
soda is more or less toxic in its effects.
Limo nitrogen Tor calcium cyanamide)
should prove especiailv desirable under
the prrsent practise of trashinV or rot.
ting Of the cane trash in the fields. as
the s"i' might thus be kept sweet and
Productive. .,, IN
Formnla Given .,., s-.,., u.
The formula for making this new fer.
tilizer is: Ca CO plus On equal Ca Ne
plus c. which. transcribed into plain
English from the chemists shorthand,
reads: One part Of Calcium Carbide
and two parts Of Nitrogen yield the
compound Calcium Cyanamide and Car.
bon. -''
! Besides the electrOlytic methods Of OBJ
tanning nitrogen from the atmosphere
there are two other very, novel methods.
tn Wit: G) Bv liquifying air and then
distilling off the nitrogen. the boiling
point Of which is higher than that of
its associate, oxygen; (2) by means of
the centrifuge. Most. everybody knows
that atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen
are not in chnmical combination. but
: are in what is called a "mechhiiical
| MIXTURE; q, crude example Of such a
! mixture would be fine saEdnst pSd
sand a separation Of the two being
! easily accomplished nv throwin0 Tho
! mixture into water. When the diffPrener
+ in specific gravity causes the one t.
sink and tho ether to float, In the nj
! t"Ognn sera ratHr advantage,i is takoh NJ
Two fac. Of difference in, sneciflc, grayitV
also. The snocifr gravity oft6SxgeH
| is phont l,lO5. while that Of nitrogen
! is OIL, and al, italian named Maya
! has invented a centrifugal wheel where
bv oxvqrn is whtrled out at one s""tinr
! md nitrogen at another;@ enntritrga!
force being but 4 ma e1ffier Of The IL '-
: Of gravitation the Oxygen, masses of
- ne n"rinhery of the wheel.
Make Our Own = , E."t'
And now we arrive at tho most IN
trrpati"g rart of our storS; wiz ShouH
it not be Practicable to Make Our owr
I >';'~"'"" Ri"-hf here in Hawaiif. TO-"
Is hut one nrime renuisite. IL the iNnS,
wrPian method we're to he followed
! (which has thus far proved eminentlV
successfully and that is electrical energy
! frt"1 waterfalls. ~ ~
F"r the making Of caIeiuTn eva nami1q
f"rti'ih"r on compa ra+iVeIV large E"hlS
Pill the renuisitn matarials' are rava ilah'f
right here in Honolulu lsO in Hflo Ia
the writer's nositfve knnwIH1"e.
! IN TT gTHRIISTRVESp