Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-23
MiDDLEWEST VETERINARIANS
URGE RENDERING PLANTS
EoR EVERY COUNTY.
IOWA WASTES MILLIONS
IN BURYiNG cARcAssEs
Conservation of InedibIe Fats vitality
Important as War Work-use Of
Edible Fats For Commercial or Me.
chanicaI Purposes Should Be Strict
ly Prohibited.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Dos Moines. July 23.-Thru resolu-
tons adopted at their recent meeting
in Omaha. veterinarians of the middle
west pledged themselves 70 advocate
county rendering plants thru which
inediblel fats and glycerine might be
rendering from carcasses or animals
now allowed to rot in the fields or to
be buried in an unsanitary manner.
The county rendering plant idea was
put forward by DR.. ]. l. Gibson, state
veterinarian Of Iowa, who has for
some time been advocating it.
The conservation of edible fats be-
comes a binding obligation upon the
American people at all times and more
especially when the cry of hunger Is
heard from millions Of people in the
world today" declared DR.. Gibson in
arguing for these plants.
Not one pound Of edible fats should
be used for commercial or mechanical
purposes while the present demand for
these products to sustain human life
is so widespread. This matter was
forcibly called to my attention this
spring when learned that a large
order of edible lard was purchased in
Chicago for purely mechanical pur-
poses, one of these purposes being the
production of cylinder oil. The order
of edible lard refer to would have
fried enough doughnuts to appease the
hunger of millions of starving people.
Even the edible fats from the Ameri-
can irving pan should all be conserved
so long as our fellow beings in other
countries are suffering the pangsN of
hunger
Waste Well Nigh Criminal.
THE conservation of inedible fats is
much neglected subject at this time.
The wanton waste of these valuable
products contained In our animal car
casses turnout the central live stock
states is in my, judgment little less
than criminal. We have all read the
undisputed reports as to >the means
adopted by our enemies to conserve
non-edible fats and grease. including
the fat from Nxhe bodies Of dead sol-
die-s. In order that they might procure
sufficient glycerine for the manufac-
ture Of explosives with which to prose-
cute the war and in the face of these
reports we go on In our old way vast
ing these products when our govern
ment publishes the fact that we must
produce at least 10000. 900 pounds more
.glycerine this year, than we have done
in the yeans past.
Waste $1o,0oo,ooo Annually.
'Based upon statutes passed In
other aAd darker days we are allow
ing. By burning or buying animal car
casses a waste Of approximately $10,-
900, 0f. half Of which is about the
value Of the glycerine wasted in Iowa
annually A large percentage of this
waste is in the carcasees OF hogs dying
of cholera and other diseases, all OF
which might be conserved in a safe
and sanitary way to supply the de-
mand for these products for CONNER
cial Of. mechanical purposes thereby
conserving all edible fats for human
food.
TN order to conserve this waste
there should be one or more properly
constructed rendering plants in each
county. such plants to be under state
supervision and licensed and con-
trolled by the state and required to
conduct the business according to
rules and regulations formulated by
the live stock sanitary authorities.
Such rendering plants could collect
each year within a radius Of fifteen
miles products that would bring at
least $4,000 annually.
DR.. Gibson pointed out that the fats
secured from tanks in which horses.
cattle. hogs and sheep have been rem
dered contain an average Of 10 per
cent glycerine, which is the most valu-
able product in the carcasses at this
time. A few years ago glycerine was
worth II or 12 cents per pound. It is
now worth upwards of 10 cents in
large containers. Glycerine is used In
the manufacture of nitroglycerine and
roglycerine is used in all CONNER
cial blasting and in mining battle-
fields. The present high price gof gly-
cerine tends to increase the price Of
all edible meats and fats and OF. all
inedible products derived from ANNA,
carcasses including glycerine. oi,s,
soaps and the like.
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