. Review of reviews and world's work . y was re-covering fully one-third of her nitrogen inthe form of coke-oven ammonia. The UnitedStates, on the other hand, still wastes mostof the ammonia which it might similarlyhusband. Why? Because it employs thewrong kind of oven for the most part. In-stead of collecting the fertilizing valueswhich are absolutely vital to us, we allowmost of them to float off into the man who lights cigars with one hundred-dollar bills popularly symbolizes is totally eclipsed by our coke toss millions into the air where he co
. Review of reviews and world's work . y was re-covering fully one-third of her nitrogen inthe form of coke-oven ammonia. The UnitedStates, on the other hand, still wastes mostof the ammonia which it might similarlyhusband. Why? Because it employs thewrong kind of oven for the most part. In-stead of collecting the fertilizing valueswhich are absolutely vital to us, we allowmost of them to float off into the man who lights cigars with one hundred-dollar bills popularly symbolizes is totally eclipsed by our coke toss millions into the air where he con-sumes but paltry hundreds. But, granting that much valuable ammon-ium sulphate might be obtained if the rightkind of coke-oven were generally adopted,there would be no assurance of a steady sup-ply. Coke-oven ammonia is a kind of waste,a by-product. No sane business man wouldcoke soft-coal for the sake of obtaining am-monia. He produces coke only when the ironindustry demands it, and the iron industrysdemands vary from year to @ lirouii iV l);n\-iin, New York CHILES PRICELESS NITRATE FIELD (The power of waginR war, the power of prodiicinp croi>s to feed a whole population, the power of develop-ing essential industries have hitherto l)een dejjendent upon the millions of tons of nitropen (k-positcd in the form ofnitrate of soda behind a Chilean plateau five thousand fet^t above the sea-level and twenty miles from the Tacihccoast—a dreary, parched, almost rainless strip of land, a veritable desert, but a grtat natitjnal asset) 296 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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