| Show study means to put end to farm waste specialists seek methods of using byproducts by products each year we make new progress toward economic perfection on the farm and still there are plenty of waste materials this isn t because we are not careful and willing to save but because means have not been found for utilizing many of the things n we e throw away raw material to make male more than enough paper fiber board acetic acid alcohols acetone and charcoal needed each year in the united states Is found in the straw of cheit oats barley rye and rice stalks stalls of corn and sugar cane and wild marsh grasses the waste of these materials Is es timatea at over tons a year the chemists know about it and so do the manufacturers the trouble Is that the materials are so bulky and the expense of gathering them Is so great that they are not wanted when more compact and more easily bandied handled stuff Is available most of the paper and other commercial goods mentioned above are now made from other raw materials principally wood and corn the various materials named are not wasted altos altogether e ther of course most of them a are re returned to the soil whence they came to add some humus and fertilizing value even when they are burned a modicum of valuable constituents Is restored to the earth for the benefit of succeeding crops it will be a good day for agriculture however when a greater number of by products yielding more directly and more obviously a profit in the shape of dollars can be made from some of our so called waste materials of the farm |
