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Show MP GARBAGE CANS MISyXPLOSIYES Grease From Refuse Made Into Glycerine for Filling Fill-ing Shells. HOG FOOD PREPARED Waste Per Man Has Been Cut to Three and a Half Pounds a Week. Special to The Tribune. CAMP KEARNY, . Aug. 4. Although a figure of speech in the concrete, picking Jjign explosive shells out of the camp garbage gar-bage cans here is a reality, according lieutenant Colonel M. P. Ravenel, jmp sanitary inspector, and F. M. Sayre, f manager of the 025 hog ranch, who have i-o-operated to form a great cycle of con- I eervation here. Mr. Sayre holds the government contract con-tract for garbage collection at this post and Colonel Ravenel's force of inspectors j have co-operated with him in such detail de-tail that they have figured the actual garbage waste of each man per day and learned that very little more than one-hdif one-hdif jjound per day goes from each man's moss kit into the refuse cans. Tiiis record approximates that of the British armies, reported by Colonel Frank B. Beauchamp, conservation expert of the British quartermaster general's office, who says that they have cut their waste to three and one-half pounds per man pr week. Nothing Is Wasted. Not a drop of anything is wasted by the efficient system, according to Mr. Kayre's figures. He says practically ev-ory ev-ory pound of pork eaten here and in San I'iego comes from the camp garbage cans by an elaborate process of evolution, and lie declares that he has been told by Mr. Hardy, the meat expert, that the 525 ranch hogs are better than the grain-fed hogs in most instances. Mr. Sayre keeps a drove of big trucks on the job all of the time to collect the garbage, cans and all: He has it hauled to the 525 ranch near here, where it is put through a sorting ana sterilizing process, proc-ess, which has been pronounced perfect by Washington inspectors. Every drop of grease is extracted from all garbage by a special process before It handled any further. All dead horses are turned over to the ranch for disposition, so they may also furnish grease. Mr. Sayre says a horse will make 100 i pounds of grease, and that will make ten pounds of glycerine, which in turn will make enough high explosive shells to kill at least 100 boches. So, by that process, every dead horse is an efficient Hun killer and a valuable asset toward win-itirjg win-itirjg the war. .11 the grease obtained is seat north, to be made into glycerine. The hide of each horse is sold, the mane and tail ivsr a profit for brush material, the ofs are made into glue, and what little r meat is left after that is put under heavy steam pressure, reaching a tem-! tem-! nerature of nearly 400 degrees Fahren-1 Fahren-1 he it before it is mixed with the rest of y-.-lhe renovated feed for the hogs. .'early 4000 hogs are fed daily from the PTrbatre cans of the camp, according to Mr. Sayre, and every pig is raised In a veritable parlor, he says. The pens are cleaned constantly and kept whitewashed. Kach hog is vaccinated and once a week It gets a thorough physical inspection and a dip against possible infection of any kind. Cleaning Garbage Cans Each garbage can is cleaned over a high -pressure steam jet and scrubbed with salsoda before it is returned to the '.-amp, so the boys have named the ranch "Spotless Town," on account of the trim white pens and the highly developed sanitary sani-tary system in force. Another item of conservation noted by i Colonel Ravenel is the disposition of the ' Mmp manure. He says 1M0 tons of fertilizer fer-tilizer is shipped out of this camp each flay and spread over the gardens and orange groves of California to reproduce more food to help win the war. Colonel Ravenel estimates that there are approximately 9000 animals kept in camp and every pound of fertilizer Is conserved ' and shipped to help keep the surrounding farms fertile so that more food can' be I produced. M r. Sayre says a great deal of the camp fertilizer goes to the orange I Krovew. He invites inspection of the D2S ranch. |
