Show I Feathers Can an Be Salvaged r v Turkey and chicken feathers are I valuable In the commercial world I l hut ut they have hay been re regarded as waste vaste product by the processors processors that is until John I. I Hardy Haidy of the tho United States States' Department of ot Agriculture Agri Agri- culture discovered a process process to save them Wet Vet feathers a b product by-product of ot poultry dressing plants normally decompose too rapidly to permit Dermit I heir collection and shipment to processing feather establishments md and most dressing plants lack leather feather drying facilities which are iro expensive Mr Hardy discovered that wel wet feathers can bo ho preserved Indefinitely by treating them with a solution solution so su- lution of or common salt hydrochloric ic tc acid and water The solution solutionIs Is made up on the basis of ot 15 13 pounds of salt one pint ic acid and 30 gallons ot or water for each 15 pounds of or we wet t feathers Thorough stirring Is advisable nd to make certain that all alJ feathers are exposed to the They should remain i ithe in inthe the preservative about S g hours The expense Is about cenTS per pound of wet feathers treated Several lots of or feathers can b bo be preserved In the same solution Wartime has made heavy heay ae oe mands wands on the feather maket for tor camouflage material and new methods of ot curling culling processing and otherwise treating chicken and turkey feathers have greatly In Increased increased tn- tn creased their suitability for tor sleepIng sleeping steepIng sleep sleep- Ing bags pillows and other uses I |