Evening journal., 1918-05-31
WOULD feed NOT
DESTROY GARBAGE
sDelaware College Doctor
Would Have City Council
Study the Subject
SOLONS In BRIEF
WEEKLY MEETING

Members Of City Council held q short
session last night, adjournment being
taken at $40 o'clock until this evening,
when the annual budget VIII be passed
and the tax rate for the ensuing year
viii be fixed. Following the Memorial
Day parade yesterday afternoon, the
Couneilmen took an automobile trip TO
West Chester. Pa.
Councilman Ward. OF the Eighth
ward, presented and had read a
{ lengthy report on the utilization Of
4 garbage, prepared by Or. D. C. Dyer, Of
Delaware College. This report, which
was ordered filed among other Items,
: stated
1918. The American garbage pail
holds twenty-odd billion pounds Of
garbage a year, and it may well be con-
sidered one Of our expensive luXuries
n all the garbage now being destroyed
in cities Of from 10000 10 100000 popu-
lation were disposed OF by feeding, ap-
proximately 30000,000 pounds of PORK,
Valued at about S5,OO00O0 would be
available, assuming only 90 per cent.
. efficiency. II we add to this the value Of
grease and tankage destroyed in cities
Of over 100000 population. we have
over sil, 100000 year Of potential food
values being destroyed.
Methods of Disposal.
Records show that ont of SOC cities !
of over 10000 population. 1856, or over
22 per cent, are contemplating changes /
in their method of garbage disposal. |
and for the following reasons The
IA Al
at the present time are: inciner-
.ation; 2, reduction, VIZ. Wilmington
plant 3, feeding.
Feeding.
"The disposal OF garbage by feeding
80 hogs, pigs and other animals, is
now attracting the keenest interest,
both practically and scientifically, In
an parts of the country. The Govern
.ment has been unable 90 find any mar
ket where garbage-fed hogs are being
generally sold at a lower price than
grain fed animals There is no the
oretical reason why garbage should BE-
bad for hogs. Recently garbage-fed hogs |
were raised at the Experiment station /
OF a Middle Western State and market |
ed at the same time as hogs fed corn
and other grains. The carcasses oi
these garbage-fed hogs could not he
distinguished by the officials OF one of
the large packing houses from corn
fed hogs, and were even given higher
grading than some OF the hogs fed
on certain grains. Ninety per cent. OF
the hogs In Massachusetts are esti-
mated TO be fed on garbage
"1he various civic OFFICIALS must give
their hearty cooperation The secret OF
success with garbage-fed hogs, is, as
with graih-fed hogs, largely one OF
management. The man behind the
hogs is the prime consideration. II
requires hard work no little knowledge
Of hogs, and a large amount Of COM
mon sense 20 raise garbage-fed hogs.
Cities undertaking municipal hog rails
ing must remember that the pigs are
10 be fed on garbage; not on politics.
The men who are making a success
IN this work are up early and late, are
progressive. know their hogs, and have
distinct knowledge of what they are
doing and how they are doing TO- IL Is
fortunate for Wilmington that we have
( such a man al our Agricultural EX-
} fperiment Station at Newark-Dr. +. A.
HAYS, Of the Animal Husbandry De-
partment who has been feeding |
garbage to hogs for some time past. |
rThe Experiment Station Is ready to CO.
soperate in any way with the munici-
pality Of Wilmington I'm this connec-
fion"
Just why this report was introduced
Nxas unknown TO the Councllmen, as
The city at present has six years re-
manning Of a nine-yesr contract for the
disposal Of the garbage by incineration.
The local Board Of Health at a special
meeting 10 be held today will award
The contract for the collection of gar
oage for the ensuing year, and this
sontract will call for the delivery OF
he waste material to the inoineratlng
1lant here.