Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-11-19
Farm Products Use In Industry
Increased BY Motor Companies

Tor farmers looking for an industrial
outlet for the products of the soil.
No Substitute for Safety.
Of course, we must also buy iron,
copper, rubber, cork and other mined
or imported materials (no substitute
has yet been found for the safety Of
steel in axle, frame and body-yet
even today our company-and the
whole automobile industry-is good
customer of the farmer.
To reduce the enormous figures in
volved to simple terms, it was re-
Gently decided to survey the amount
of field and farm materials necessary
to build 100000 Ford cars. They
are as follows:
I, Cotton-69, 100000 pounds. If, as
a good farmer might, you figure 100
pounds per acre, this would be equiv
alent to 431,250 acres of cotton. This
raw material has myriad uses-for
brake Innings, for timing gears, for
top and curtain material, but perhaps
the most unusual and striking use
for 100000 pounds of the material
is for safety glass. Cotton, in the
formeof cellulose acetate, is the cen
trail layer between the two sheets OF
glass that make up every finished
sheet of safety glass.)
Wool-3,200,O00 pounds. Used fol-
gaskets, antitrust lubricants, floor
coverings, etc. Figured at a fail
rate of four pounds per sheep, this
is equivalent to the production Of
100000 sheep.
l Lumber-112,000 900 feet = equiva-
lent roughly to the production Of
2O,50O acres. This amount of lum
Der is used for packing and shipping
purposes and in the River Rouge
plant. It is not used for any struc
|; tural part of the Ford car, w hi C
has welded steel body reinforced
with steel-to give maximum safety
Cattle-The leather from 10000
head. For leather upholstering alone
the Ford Motor Co. uses 1,500,00(
square feet and for gaskets an add
tional one-half million pounds.
Soy Bean Mold
Soy Beans-1,8OO,OOO pounds. o.
the basis of properly fertilized acres
this amount of beans takes 30,00'
acres to produce. In the new plasti
j plant at Dearborn soy bean mold i
used for horn buttons, light switches
, gear-shifter balls and cemente'
CLUES. Soy beans are used in max
! ing cores for metal castings and thei
: oil is an important part of the shin
: ing durable baked-enamel finish.
Flax, 100000 pounds of hnsee'
: oil. This is equivalent to 1890
: bushels-the production of 1850
| acres. Linseed oil is also used, lik
, soy bean oil, as an ingredient of tn
/ beautiful synthetic baked enamel fin
, ish on Ford V-8 and, again, lik
soy bean oil, finds its way into foun
,, dry cores.
! Tung Oil-728,OO0 gallons. This i
equivalent, at the rate of 1856 pound
t per acre, to a production of 1900
acres of tung trees. The growing o
| these trees is new industry in Am
: erica which has been advanced b
demand for tung oil. Whereas tn
: trees grow well only in semi-tropica
. climates, their produce has no equs
: in the making of varnishes, bra&
v Innings, top materials, etc.
,, Corn-500,000 bushels. This i
: equivalent to 40 bushels per acre t
| 1850 acres. From distillation o
this corn by various chemical pro
cesses is extracted butyl alcohol an
, solvents for enamel finishes and TO
: a bonding material used in the foun
dry.
Goats Hair Used
Coats Hair (mohair of the fines
quality)-35O,OOO pounds. This i
. used in making long-wearing all-pur
. pose upholstery. Figuring at tn
} rate of four pounds of hair per goat
, this is equivalent to the production
of 1880 goats.
|, Turpentine = 100000 poun s
: Made from pine pitch. Turpentine i
used in Ford production as solvent
as rosin in the foundry and fol
paints, lacquers and adhesives.
Sugar 100000 gallons o.
molasses. This is equivalent to th'
yield of 1880 acres of sugar cane
In making the car molasses is pro
cessed into solvents, shock absorbers