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trust at least. Eighty million acres com- 

 prise till' annual average of corn area in 

 the United States, each acre yiehling an 

 average of about 4,0001hs. of cornstalksj 

 or a total of 160,000,000 tons. Of this 

 weight 85 per cent., or 130,000,000 tons, 

 is valued as feed, iDut not over ten per 

 cent, of it is actually fed. The other 15 

 per cent, of the total weight, or 34,00(),()()0 

 tons, is the pith of the stalk, which has 

 been a total waste. The patents held by 

 the Marsden Co. cover the process of 

 separating the pith from tlie stalk, which 

 makes it not only possible, but profitable 

 for them to pay 12s. 6d. per ton for the 

 stalk, and produce the raw material, worth 

 S-Jd. per pound, or £70 per ton. If every 

 ton of stalks in the United States could be 



handled, the value of each corn crop 



would be increased £100,000,000. The 

 proprietors of the Marsden Co. expect to 

 see the time when these conditions will 

 exist. 



As for the products of this once useless 

 corn pith, the outer lining, that part that 

 t'licloses the pith, will be made into flour 

 ii^ an adulterant, cattle feed, chicken fat- 

 toner, and egg-producer. Part of it will 

 b(> made up into candy, into c()h)uring 

 dyes, and still other elements will become 

 a part of more novel productions. Thous- 

 ands of dollars will be added to the crop 

 receipts of Indiana farmers. That which 

 has been waste will be consumed, and em- 

 ployment will be furnished for skilled 

 workers. — The "Foreign Buyer." 



Industrial Australia, 



THE HON. F. R. MOOR'S IMPRESSIONS. 



(Published 



TAKING advantage of my recent visit 

 to Australia to see as much of the 

 country and its industries as my limited 

 stay atforded, 1 have now the pleasure of 

 sulmiitting the impressions I received, in 

 the hope that they may ])e of use to my 

 fellow-colonists. 



The present highly industrial condi- 

 tion of the Australian States is in a great 

 measure attributable to the lessons taught 

 by the serious financial crisis of a few 

 years ago, when the banks failed, and 

 when the people (with their country on 

 the verge of ruin), realizing that its regen- 

 eration could only be cfPected by develop- 

 ing its resources, set to work, by means of 

 co-operation and Grovernment aid, to 

 establish the various works and factories 

 which have placed the several industries 

 of that country in their present advanced 

 and prosperous state. The crisis furni- 

 shed the people with the incentive, while 

 the refrigerating chamber furnished them 

 with the means of placing their perish- 

 able products on the markets of the 

 world. 



In almost every instance the large 

 factories now to bo found in Australia 

 are traceable to some small concern 



hi/ order). 



erected by a few farmers and others, act- 

 ing on the co-operative principle, or have 

 arisen nut <it modest ventures under- 

 taken siilely by individuals, or by States, 

 and ^1 uiiioi|ialities, Onoofthe most not- 

 able examples of this wonderful develop- 

 ment was furnished in the case of the 

 Government Freezing and Export Works 

 in Melbourne, which was started by the 

 civic authorities a few years ago, to en- 

 al)le liusiness people and others to store 

 their perishalile products. The original 

 premises, which still form part of the 

 vv'orks, are so small, that it might safely 

 be said they could be "stowed away" in 

 (■ne of the many refrigerating chambers 

 of the ]iresent building, and the expansion 

 of the trade caused by the erection of 

 tliese premises now enables the Govern- 

 ment to employ an efficient staff to inspect 

 and prepare perishable products for mar- 

 ket or export at a minimum cost, while 

 the institution is self-si;pporting. In 

 every suitable locality freezing and chill- 

 ing works and factories are to be found, 

 and as an instance of the magnitude of 

 the operations of some of these works, 1 

 might mention that in one of these estab- 

 lishments alone 50,000 bullocks were dealt 



