The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-15
UTILIZING GARBAGE.
U. S. Food Administration is Urging the
Necessity of Preventing Waste.

A campaign for the utilization of gar
bage has been inaugurated by the Unit
ed States food administration which is
advising all state administrators to
spread garbage utilization propaganda
through their territory and urge upon
housekeepers the necessity for keeping
garbage Kitchen and table refuse) in a
separate container from other house re-
| fuse.
Figures and statistics issued by the
food administration show that in one ton
Of garbage there is sufficient glycerine
to make the explosive charge for four
teen IS millimeter shells, enough fatty
acid to manufacture IS pounds of soap,
fertilizer elements to grow eight bushels
of wheat and score of other valuable
materials essential in the manufacture
of munitions.
1t is also pointed out that "a cities of
over 100000 are not utilizing garbage and
that the combined population, which is
estimated to be ever 5000 900, is wasting
100000 pounds of nitro-glycerine and
10000, 900 twelve-ounce cakes OF soap
besides 10000 tons of tankage which
contains fertilizer elements sufficient to
produce a three million bushel wheat
crop. The value of this loss of materials
is estimated at 100000.
In 90 cities where there are garbage
utilization plants the figures show that
combined population of 100000 peo-
pie are utilizing these products, to the
value of over 81 100000 annually, and
that a large percentage of this saving is
being directly used by the government
in munition making Plans are under
way in several cities for the manufac-
ture of alcohol on large scale from
garbage and from experiments it has
been shown that the grade of alcohol
produced equals high grade grain prod
uct.
But in these 20 cities, or most of them,
large amounts of garbage are destroyed |
by burning or made useless by being
mixed with other waste. This means !
that around 100000 pounds of grease
is lost, or sufficient to produce 100000 |
pounds of nitro -glycerine which would !
furnish the powder charge OF about 3,
900 900 shells of the famous French "sev-
enty-five" In addition there is loss
Of fatty acids sufficient TO manufacture
Is 900 900 twelve ounce cakes of soap.
The fertilizer waste amounts to 1885,
BOO pounds of nitrogen, 100000 pounds
IF phosphate of lime, and $4,000 pounds
# potash or enough for the replacement
If the elements removed from the soil by
| million bushels of wheat. In other
words, a waste of 22,500 tons of fertl-
zer
If, in these 20 cities, the garbage was
kept clean" or free from bottles, tin
ans, croekery and other foreign mat
er, the saving to the government would
e many million dollars more The re-
devolves upon the shoulders
f the housewife, who is urged TO see
hat nothing but garbage goes into the
.irbage pail. Other house refuse has a
alue, but its value is lost and the val
e of the garbage is lost if refuse and
urbage are mixed.
The same is true about garbage that
to be used as hog feed. The food ad
is also urging that table
nd kitchen refuse be fed to hogs and
driving home to the housekeeper the
act that one ton of garbage viii pro-
uce 100 pounds of good, firm, inst quail
y pork.
Figures from 300 cities OF over 10000
opuiation, which are disposing of their
arbage as hog feed, are daily demon
rating this fact. The combined popu-
Ltion Of these cities is more than e,000,-
10 and the estimated yield of pork
WOULD be lO0,000.00O pounds. But be-
luse of poor separation, inedible mate
ais and losses, the amount of garbage
a pork that is actually marketed each
Ear Is only 5O,O00,Oo0 pounds, which
A. a value Of over SS,0e0O00.
Over $50 American cities Of between
1000 and 100000 population are not
.ilizing their garbage. Their combined
,puIation exceeds 100000 and the
.ilizatiun Of their garbage as hog feed
ould Weld 60,Oo0,000 pounds.
II can be plainly seen, therefore. why
e food administration Is anxious 10
courage and help in this great saving
easure While the money loss is a So
Gus one the material loss i more Sc
,us. The housewife can be Of very
eat help in pushing this movement
ar responsibility does not end With
,epinr her garbage clean but il i her
Itv 10 see that the kitchen and table
fuse from her home i used in the most
vantsceous way which conditions n