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Show PAPER. FROM pORNSTALKS l Corn Sliucltctl.I'or One Dollar nn Acre In the Ivcltl. :t :: :: A Knil-ik, e (111 I ill-pal. h to Hie Chillis1' 1" "id 1 1. -nil I " s: A Maine paper ln.il I- m.i!. i-s i .pel fi Illinois Ill-inois corn. .. ... tl;t ... Is .is high as eight C ita .1 p.. ii .1. II." i. -nil of Hie ' IlI'lV fn'O. op. I..II.OI 11. 'I' proiu'ses great raails. It is ,i f ,l ill mailer that la ll.- e ,- ,.: .. ...... lor p.. per re- j mils In I, .- I,,, i, r ...v.i-i b. coin llUSk. J r M an :, : e ..s. .i, of II.IVI! cents li : .1 :i- I in I... i or; gitb. rod j mio his I i c t.-.bl. r n .l is really i... i.-.-.:."g pu. (. . I'-ur 1i- ii"' p .1 t nu. .in ii. rs have .: I', i; ti'- en a-:., .n pi'ii-duces pi'ii-duces ll. I 11' .1 .s i ,1'e I. il .1" r making n ; ..- but on to a j ear . ' no ago U") w ie .1 n I is- I" ki...w how IS .-- t to I lage. Til l "o.. tho Bill' i of t: ... c.,r i. Lid; to till- po: tier ti-er Minis' v won!. I overcook Hie pllll. Ntllli. r c ud Hie leaves or the husks 1 1 e,s,k,-.i wlih the sialk without with-out ni.llng sum.' eoi,i...nei t part. AboSI I il lit .M an "go llisirge I!. Sherwsl, o' Keam v. Neb., began giving tlie siil.ieet of uliluing cornstalks corn-stalks cliisi.l. ruble thought. 1 lOIII Ills seat in riiiiioi.l car he l.siked out over tb great wastes of i-ornstnlka and Irl 4 to tigure out the suliillon or putting tl" in lo vtilualile use. 1. liter be coisaltnl a Chicago chemist naiue.l WllllJI.l lie -kins, and Hie two set tn work to d. vlse a plan by w hich the shell c( the cornstalk and the pllll could In pre, arcl for paper making SA'parH'ly. To do this It would be necessary to separate Hie pith from the shell, mid It would have to be done by ina.luii.'iy A sen or more of such niichlnes were p'.periiiiclited wltb. About a year "go a pl. ee of mechanism mechan-ism mil con.pl. l.-d and set lo work, villi the result that nearly 'n tons or tht tine-1 grades of pap. r have been ion, la from si.ilks Hull ci.'W I'l Knn- kiikis) County, 111. The quality or Ibis paper ll such aa tu make I. I vallable for nf. ill) all the purposes of u n.i I-er I-er or bookmaker. The cluir.iclcr of the pitb production Is slightly different differ-ent fn.D that or Ihe shell, due grade of It baa been found desilablo ror grocers' use lu covering 1 rd or butler. A lnrgl p.oporliou of Ihe paper that baa lotn made eaiue from the llxi.l crop oi rornstalka. It w a Urst Ui.nig'it best tn Induce the fiiiDier to haul his corn fodder to the plant In Kankakee, nave Hi.' corn busk.il and then hauling tho leaves and the busks back tu the farm for feeding piirioses. tinpcrintcndctil Miller Mil-ler of liie factory, bowevc", believed there wus a much tic iter plan, one that was calculated to enlist the CO-oneasatoiH. CO-oneasatoiH. ol Hie farmers, lie perfect ed a nsichlno, Ihe provlncj of which la to be limi.nl to the farm, set up uear the barn and then haul the shocks ot fodder to tbe machine. Just as the tbrnililng people haul net or other grulo. The fodder Is feu Into the machine, ma-chine, swiftly driven ly steam power. The tlrst act of the contrivance Is to simp off the ears of Ihe cornstalk and to drop Iheiu Into a doblo conveyor, con-veyor, which carries the ears along endways, skinning olT the buaka as they pass ulnng. Scarcely a shred Is left ou on ear, tbe great bulk of tile yellow ears coming out without with-out s vestige of Ibelr former covering. What Utile shelling Is done In the operation op-eration tho machine saves Ihe grains nnd deposits thelll lu It hi nl the side. The ears uro run by l hlm-ry into a wagon box, in w hich they uru hauled After having clipped oft the ears tbe inn. Ill n. runs the stalks lo the rear, depositing them side by Hide on a table. Automatically Ihe machine roils theiii lulu a bundle t hi-1 is pushed Into a hinder operated on Hie sumo principle prin-ciple as that of the biu.llur machinery machin-ery of a harvester. '1 no bira.llo of alalks. ss clean ns Asb poles, Is tied Willi a hemp cord and dropped to tbe side of tho inn. ''Inc. The leaves mid busks or the fodder are druppinl on mi endless belt Hint carries them to the mouth or a blow pipe, tin- function or which Is to blow this inst.-r la I into Ihe barn if Ihe farm, er, who llmls In it some of Ihe llucst teed sniff tliut bis rami produces, lor tilt a busking hla corn and blowing blow-ing the li rt tit for -'utile re.il Into tbe bara the farmer pays the machine man $1 an acre nut turns over the stalks to the latter freo of charge. The machine will clean ip six aires or about 1110 ahocks o corn a day. The alalks, which have now become the property of the busker, are hauled or shipped to the plant ut Ivuukakee and are conveyed to uu upper room, where they are fed Into a machine that separates the pllll from Hio shell or the stalk. Two knives that are driven ut great speed saw the pith from the stalk that bus been rolled Hal, so Ihul every particle of the pith has been taeu out. The pllb la dropped lu.o one bin and the shell Into another. They are baled separately and shipped to the pap.-r factory lu Maine, where curb. Is treated according ts a particiiuir process III making paper. At tlrst the husk.r and depllblng machines .ere combined in one, the Urst Idea being lo lirln. . '. l. fodder fod-der to Ihe plain Th . it w.is fi u 1 to bo niore ilw '. .!., .i i.ku on the f ilm a .. t , ' I ! ta (i in ', plp . .ss tbey s.'ijs. ,!ed. It Is ' -I '.at en,, a if e uusker NlkJ , ...:!v ! ate1 w. IiuhI. iirteen A de , and n I ir.rn out In a .u?u,. . ikaj tons of prepared . -en sinus. A paper mill with a dally caps oil or luu lam or Itnlsbec. piper will require ou.otsi tons or eornsialks annually. It la estimate.'. Ibat tha tav f till '.input of ll,.' p . ! mills of this 1 . .iiinli) is .ssi.ss. ions a 'ally I |