Show FARMERS MAY FIND FORTUNES IN THINGS THE THEY y HAVE WASTED WASTE D big industry is ready to form an all alliance with 1 farmers whereby cro crops Ps as known at pres present nt will become morely merely byproducts by products and what hat is now con waste will vill yield fortunes to growers vr according to dr george E burgess burgeis director of the united states bureau of standards giving an example of the invisible fortunes for on farms dr burgess points out cut in farm and fireside that the present crop of tons of corn stacks thrown away avay annually are even now estimated to be worth five per ton to manufacturers for the production pro luction of wall ivall board paper and number of other commodities peanut shells are listed as another taint viasta product from froia which h ani carbon black can be pro aced profitably furfural a synthetic asin esin is being made from oot oat luand be made from corncobs corn cobs cobi the th advance of synthetic chemistry is calling for basic materials for hun deeds of products ve vegetable table oils are arc rapidly replacing mineral lubricants all of these can be obtained from farm products last year bushels of corn went into the production of corn com sugar thus process s became an appreciable factor inthe in the price of corn com big industries says dr burgess are arc interested in getting cheaper raw materials and there is a great desirability sir in having these materials grown in the united states at present they are being imported inhume quantities A war any place on earth a shift in a n nations it ions policy is bound to affect industry seriously or perhaps cut them off altogether from raw materials mate rals the agricultural depression of the past few years has decreased the ability of the farmer fanner to buy the products of factories if manufacture can provide a new source of f farm arm incomes they will have more and better customers in the best market of all the domestic market |