THR RURAL NEW-YORKE8 
171 
1913. 
UTILIZING WASTE CARCASSES. 
Consul Skinner at Hamburg, Ger¬ 
many, reports the work done at the ren¬ 
dering plants of the larger German 
cities. Carcasses of dead animals or 
rejected meat are treated by steam or 
benzine to remove the grease and the 
residue is ground into meal for ferti¬ 
lizer or stock feeding. The Germans 
raise many fish, like carp, and this meal 
is used in feeding them. Here is a 
description of one process. The dead 
animals are sometimes shipped 60 miles 
or more to be treated: 
Green lumps of flesh, wet and undivided, 
sometimes the whole hind parts of cattle 
or horses, are loaded into the extractor, 
and the latter when entirely filled is closed. 
A supply of benzine or other solvent is 
pumped into the evaporator and converted 
into a hot gaseous state, in which it flows 
steadily into the green material and then 
out of it again. When the hot, dry gas 
comes in contact with the cold, moist sur¬ 
faces of the material a portion of the ben¬ 
zine condenses and filters down to the bot¬ 
tom of the digester, carrying with it both 
fat and moisture. This combination of 
condensed benzine, moisture, and fat passes 
Into the fat distiller where the benzine and 
water are evaporated and sent into a con¬ 
denser, the fat or oil remaining in the dis¬ 
tiller. This procedure continues for eight 
to 10 hours until the material is relieved 
of its grease and is dry, this being ascer¬ 
tained when only benzine passes into the 
fat distiller and no more water comes 
through the condenser. In the meantime 
the material is stirred periodically so that 
the incoming benzine gas may find new sur¬ 
faces upon which to act. After the grease 
has been extracted the material comes out 
of the digester as a brownish-yellow pul¬ 
verized mass except as to the bones which, 
though without grease, retain their form 
and are crushed and mixed with the tank¬ 
age. Theoretically, there should be no 
loss of benzine whatever, but in practice 
there is a loss of one to two per cent of 
the total weight of green offal treated. 
One engineer and a boy should be able to 
perform all the work. 
OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
Part II. 
In the discussion of cooperation it was 
stated that most of the great organizations 
which were organized with the view to 
cooperation, have drifted into politics or 
social organizations rather than carrying 
out their principles, and most organiza¬ 
tions have been formed with the view to 
regulating the other fellow’s business leather 
than to provide the most efficient method 
of handling the farmer’s output. 
“The public has been nefariously de¬ 
ceived,” declared Prof. J. L. Coulter of 
Washington, “and many State departments 
are also continuing this deception. It has 
been estimated that farm products annually 
amount to from .$9,000,000 to $10,000,000, 
but there exists everywhere in these figures 
duplication and triplication. Corn is fed 
to hogs, grains and forage crops to other 
farm animals, which is not income. There 
are a few ways whereby the farmer can 
better his financial condition, to keep books, 
find out which of his stock and his crops 
are paying him profit. Organize, and re¬ 
duce the cost of marketing to the mini¬ 
mum, turn all waste products to profit, 
and produce as high quality as is possible, 
and make a community prominent because 
of its product,” said Prof. Coulter. 
“No child should be condemned to live in 
a city,” was the remark of Prof. P. P. 
Claxton, United States Commissioner of 
Schools. ‘‘To-day a man on a farm needs 
to know more than In any other line of 
endeavor; he must know the chemistry of 
the soil, he must be a physician of plant 
and animal life, for the diseased conditions 
that face him are endless, and he must also 
be a business man. Prof. Claxton outlined 
his views of rural education. He sug¬ 
gested that schools should be consolidated, 
that a suitable school house with equip¬ 
ment, a small farm attached, be supplied, 
and let the teacher be skilled in the agri¬ 
cultural arts, and let him have his home 
on the farm; pay him a salary and allow 
him the revenue from the property. If 
need be let his assistants be women, and 
hire him for life or for period of good 
behaviour. He declared that this method 
need not cost the farm community a sin¬ 
gle cent, as bonds might be issued, and at 
the end of the 20 years the increased value 
of the school property would be sufficient 
to cover the issue of securities. He ad¬ 
vocated changing the curriculum of study, 
with the view to placing before the child 
such problems as will confront him in later 
life. 
“The idea of conservation grew out of ihe 
forestry department’s work,” was the state¬ 
ment of Giffoi'd Pinchot. “One of the 
greatest things to be done for the farmer 
is the development of mechanical power 
to be used by him. It means the develop¬ 
ment of electrical enei'gy from water power. 
This is the most valuable single asset of 
the continent. At present 60 per cent, of 
all developed water power is in the h.vxds 
of 10 companies that sire closely inter- 
loeked, and are the basis of a national water 
power trust, lu such case the farmer will 
be the greatest sufferer, and we need the 
help of the farmer in this movement.” 
Governor Cox declared that nothing pro¬ 
motes civilization any more than good 
roads, and that it was his desire to de¬ 
velop every agency that would bring the 
people together. He declared that the 
whole i - oad and school system need making 
over, and that every effort would be bent 
to improve rural conditions. He suggested 
that community houses be erected where 
farm folk might gather for lecture courses, 
entertainment and education. “Rilly” 
ounday told the farmer that the country 
;' a Y p't to be like a fish pond, because of 
it being drained of its best lx>vs and girls, 
"that there was nothing left in it but bull 
heads and suckers.” He added that in all 
nations where the small land owner became 
absorbed, the nation fell. He said the time 
had passed when any kind of a teacher 
would do for the country school, or any 
kind of a preacher for the country church. 
Secretary of Agriculture Sandies described 
the corn boys’ trip to Washington. Over 
300 boys were given the benefit of this trip, 
and it is planned to have four times the 
number participate the coming year : He 
said : “Some farmers opposed the corn con¬ 
test, feai-ing the boy might raise more corn 
than the old man. Others said that such 
a trip would allure the boys from the city, 
and still others could not spare the ground, 
or their boys’ time for the work. One boy 
wrote me,” declared Secretary Sandies, “I 
will have to withdraw ; father says that he 
cannot spare me five days, my corn looks 
good, and 1 think that I could win,” and 
the father compelled the boy to write this 
letter. Sometimes we look on home only 
as ;x place to eat, sleep and wash, and this 
trip was like lifting the boys from the 
corn field and putting them in fairyland. 
The President of the United States never 
had a better train, and a king never trav¬ 
eled in more regal style. They wex - e the 
best traveling billboards that Ohio ever 
had. Another pleasing incident. We had 
a girl corn grower, Mary Whittaker, and 
she was a splendid little woman, and we 
now have a number of girls who wish 
to enter the contest another year.” 
"Sandies is the whole thing in Ohio,” was 
the sentiment of groups of farmers in their 
little conversations, and C. R. Wagner 
voiced this opinion in an address, declaring 
that Secretary Sandies in handling the 
work of the department, was continually 
at it and had spent frequenly 16 and 18 
houi’S daily in the work. In speaking of 
institute men, “The speakers should know 
of what they are talking,” he remarked, 
“and there should be no fraud at home.” He 
advised separate sessions for the ladies, as 
they have interests as important as those 
of men, and that one out of five sessions 
should be given to the boys and girls. 
Farm credits, which has been discussed in 
Tiib It. N.-Y. were considered. Prof. Price 
of Ohio State University explained various 
European systems of loaning money. The 
advantages of the European system over the 
American banking system, as viewed by 
members of the State Board of Agriculture, 
are long time loans, without the necessity 
of renewal; that securities can be marketed, 
and sold for a lower interest rate than 
those secured by individual mortgage, and 
that the young man without capital under 
the European method can secure loans to 
buy equipment or land. 
Resolutions were adopted discouraging 
homeseekers’ rates to other sections of the 
country; encouraging exhibits of Ohio pro¬ 
ducts where they might be of advertising 
value to the State; for the prevention of 
waste in public funds in the triplication 
of work done by the State Univei-sity, the 
Experiment Stations, and the Department 
of Agi'iculture ; discouraging the importation 
of diseased live stock; protecting swine 
gi-owers against cholera: the offering of 
prizes to boys and girls at county fairs; 
popular subscription to the Geox-ge Wash¬ 
ington Memorial Building at Washington ; 
equal educational opportunities in the city 
and country and the expression of thanks 
to the Chamber of Commerce for the use 
of the auditorium for the meeting, e. x. 
Wixen you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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“Several years ago, while at a friend’s 
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Posturn now comes in concentrated 
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It is prepared by stirring a level tea¬ 
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sugar to taste and enough cream to 
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Instant Posturn is convenient; there’s 
no waste and the flavour is always uni¬ 
form. Sold by grocers—45 to '50-cup 
tin 30 cents, 90 to 100-cup tin 50 cents. 
A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer’s 
name and 2-cent stamp for postage. 
Posturn Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, 
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