Evening star., 1936-11-15
BY HENRY FORD.

No more important development
has recently taken place between in
dustry and the farmer than the con-
tinuing efforts at Dearborn, home of
the Ford Motor Co., to find increasing
uses In industry for products Of the
soil.
The farm and the factory are
natural allies--one Is incomplete
without the other. They should
never be separated, for each has the
power to heal the other of any eco
nomic ills that may befall.
foresee the time when industry
shall no longer denude the forests,
which require generations to mature,
nor use up the mines which were ages
in the making. but shall draw its raw
material largely from the products Of
the fields ). am convinced that we
shall be able to get out of yearly
crops most of the basic materials
which we now get from forest and
mine.
To this end, and to encourage the
farmer by practical example, we have
established at Dearborn the indus
trialized barn. This barn has been
improved and simplified since 1t was
exhibited at the Chicago Exposition
in 1885 and offers a real possibility
for 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 a good
customer of the farmer.
To reduce the enormous figures in
volved to simple terms, it was recently
decided to survey the amount of field
and farm materials necessary to build
100000 Ford cars. They are as fol-
lows:
COTTON-69,0 900 900 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 500,-
900 pounds of the material is for safe
ty glass. Cotton, in the form of cell
lulose acetate, is the central layer be-
tween the two sheets of glass that
make up every finished sheet of safety
glass;
WOOL-3,200.000 pounds. Used for
gasketS, antitrust lubricants, floor COW
erings, etc. Figured at a fair rate of
four pounds per sheep, this is equiva-
lent to the production of 100000 sheep.
LUMBER-1l2,OO ,OO0, 900 feet-equiva-
lent roughly to the production of
20,500 acres. This amount of lumber
is used for packing and shipping pur-
poses and in the River Rouge plant
1t is not used for any structural part
of the Ford car. which has a 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 100000
square feet and for gaskets an addi-
tional one-half million pounds.
Soy Bean Mold.
SOY BEANS-1.8 800, 900 pounds. On
the basis of properly fertilized acres,
this amount of beans takes 10000
acres to produce. In the new plastic
plant at Dearborn soy bean mold is
used for horn buttons, light switches,
gear-shifter balls and cemented CLUES.
Soy beans are used in making cores for
metal castings and their oil is an
important part of the shining durable
baked-enamel finish.
FLAX-2,40 100000 pounds of linSeed
oil. This is equivalent to $4,000
bushels-the production of 1880
acres. Linseed oil is also used, like
soy bean oil, as an ingredient of the
beautiful synthetic baked enamel fin
ish on a Ford V-8 and, again, like |
soy bean oil, finds its way into foun- |
dry cores.
TUNG OIL-728,OO0 gallons. This |
is equivalent, at the rate Of 336 |
pounds per acre, to a production Of |
10000 acres of tung trees. The grow |