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WELCH & WELCH 



3-5 W. So. Water Street 



CHICAGO 



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{National League Commission Merchants 

 Western Fruit Jobbers and 

 International Apple Shippers Association 



Big Waste of Fertilizing Material 



[Ofncc of Information, 



SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of a highly 

 valuahle fertilizing material in the 

 form of tankage and blood from the 

 country slaughter of food animals is 

 being wasted throughout the country 

 districts. In addition $22,000,000 worth 

 of ammonia from which ammonium 

 sulphate, another valuable fertilizing 

 material could be made, is annually 

 wasted by the practice of making coke 

 in the bee-hive type of oven, according 

 to a recent bulletin of the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Tankage, a product of slaughter 

 houses consisting of such waste mate- 

 rial as bones, horns, hoofs, hair, etc., 

 contains a large percentage of nitrogen 

 and other products used in commercial 

 fertilizei', and in the larger packing 

 houses is carefully saved. In country 



Save *35 0*50 



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In the flratcoetaloneonthebeBt.moBt modem, 

 most sanitary and closest Bkimming cream 

 eeparator ever built. When you boy the 



New Galloway Sanitary 



—you pay just one small profit above 

 ectual cost of materiala and labor. Why pa; 

 any deaJer $86 to $110 for an inferior ma- 

 cbine. Bay direct and aaveone-balf. Get my 



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1053 Galloway btdtion Waterloo.!** 



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lUEBIOmiACHIIERTM.^^ *^°°* '^*^"*=^ „ 

 Manufacturers 182 Morrison St., Portland, Ore. 



The Morrill & Morley Way 



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 Used by the U. S. Depart- 

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 Morrill & Morley Mfg. Co. 

 Box 12 Benton Harbor, Mich. 



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United States Department of Agriculture] 



killing, however, only 25 per cent of 

 Ihe tankage and blood are saved for 

 fertilizer. The nitrogen content of 

 tankage is said to vary from 5 to 8 per 

 cent and its phosphoric acid content be- 

 tween .5 and 12 per cent. Drietl blood 

 is perhaps the richest in nitrogen of 

 all the organic materials used in the 

 fertilizing industries. Unadulterated 

 blood when quite dry contains 14 per 

 cent of nitrogen, but as obtained on the 

 market its content varies from 9 to 13 

 per cent. From the figures estimated 

 by the Bureau of .\nimal Industry, De- 

 partment of .\griculture, as represent- 

 ing the total slaughter of cattle, calves, 

 swine and sheep in the United States, 

 in 1!)12, it has been calculated that if 

 all the materials rendered available by 

 this slaughter had been saved and con- 

 verted into tankage and dried blood, 

 they would have produced 222,,535 tons 

 of tankage and 70,794 tons of dried 

 blood. The introduction of a co-oper- 

 alivc system among .\merican farmers 

 undoubtedly would result in an in- 

 creased utilization of blood and tank- 

 age for fertilizing purposes. In Den- 

 mark country killing is being practiced 

 on a co-operative basis in small country 

 abattoirs and the blood is carefully 

 preserved. 



The loss of ammonium sulphate, 

 which compares favorablx wilh sodium 

 nitrate as a iilant stimulant, in the dis- 

 li'lalion of coal f(<r the production of 

 coke, is desciibed in the bulletin as 

 follows: "In the main, coal is distilled 

 in this coimtry in that form of coke 

 oven, the bee-hive oven, which does 

 not admit the recovery of the distilla- 

 tion ijroducts. Instead, they are al- 

 lowed to go to waste. So we are in- 

 debted to the by-product recovery oven 

 l(ir the main supply of ammonium sul- 

 phate. The amount recovered is valued 

 at about .$4,0(10,(100, while the recover- 

 able ammonia annually destroyed in 

 the coking jirocesses bv the bee-hive 

 ovens is valued at *22,(io0.0(10. * • • • 

 \l the beginning of 1912 thcic were 

 I.(i24 h\-pro(luct coke ovens in ofiera- 

 tion in the United States and ()98 

 building." 



The great product of C.hile, soilimu 

 nil rale, jjossesses less nitrogen content 



(15.5 per cent) than ammonium sul- 

 phate. The United States, however, 

 imports a great quantity (in 1911, 

 70,000 tons) for use in agriculture, ow- 

 ing to the delicient supply of other fer- 

 tilizers in this country. This is only a 

 small part of the total amount of 

 sodium nitrate .\merica imports yearly 

 from (;hile, as it has many other uses. 

 The more intensive agriculture of re- 



The Question of the Day 



Witli tlie fruit grower is, how can he derive 

 a revenue from his overripe and unsalable 

 fruits? 



It can be done. It is being done. How? By 

 the use of the new and up-to-date process of 



DEHYDRATING 



Which is the cheapest, quickest and best 

 process ever devised for preserviug fruit with- 

 out changing the taste or flavor; is clean and 

 sanitary. There is always a market for this 

 product. Can be operated by anyone. Capac- 

 ity to meet all requirements. 



Kor descriptive booklet address 



Luther Uacu-Dehydrator Co. 



SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 



Main 8582 — A 2695 



Vacuum Cleaners 



DUNTLEY AM) OTHERS 



Electric and hand power. The only 

 Exclusive Vacuum Cleaner Store in the 

 state. If we haven't what you want, we 

 will get it for you. All machines fully 

 guaranteed. Other machines taken in 

 exchange. 



W. L. BENTLEY & CO. 



No. 473!^ Washington St. 

 Portland, Oregon 



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