Community civics and rural life . en shown to contain fiftydollars worth of good food materials. Investigations by theFood Administration showed that there is enough glycerine in aton of garbage to make explosives for 14 shells, enough fat andacid to make 75 bars of soap, and enough fertilizer to grow 8bushels of wheat. It is said that 24 cities wasted enough garbageto make 4 million pounds of nitroglycerine, 40 million cakes of 1 S. W. Strauss, The Greater Thrift, National Education Association Proceed-ings, 1916, p. 278. THRIFT 177 soap, and fertilizer for 3 million bushels of wheat. On theo
Community civics and rural life . en shown to contain fiftydollars worth of good food materials. Investigations by theFood Administration showed that there is enough glycerine in aton of garbage to make explosives for 14 shells, enough fat andacid to make 75 bars of soap, and enough fertilizer to grow 8bushels of wheat. It is said that 24 cities wasted enough garbageto make 4 million pounds of nitroglycerine, 40 million cakes of 1 S. W. Strauss, The Greater Thrift, National Education Association Proceed-ings, 1916, p. 278. THRIFT 177 soap, and fertilizer for 3 million bushels of wheat. On theother hand 300 cities produced 52 million pounds of pork byfeeding their garbage to hogs. The Department of Agriculture has shown that the waste ofa half-cup of milk daily by each of the 20 million families inthe United States would equal in a year the total What smallproduction of 400 thousand cows; that one ounce savingsof meat or fat saved daily would in a year mean875 thousand steers, or a million hogs; and that if 81 per cent. A School Bank in Operation of the whole wheat were used in bread instead of 75 per cent, thesaving in a year would feed 12 million people. During the warour government organized a campaign for the salvage of junk,and the total amount collected had a value of i| billion school children of Des Moines, Iowa, are reported to havegathered and sold two thousand dollars worth of waste paper inone week, and those of many other communities obtained similarresults. 178 COMMUNITY CIVICS Every successful business man is constantly vigilant todiscover and remedy waste in his business — waste ofValue of materials, time, and effort. Many of the most by-products valuable products in certain industries are by-products, — that is, products produced as an incident tothe main industry and from materials that otherwise wouldhave been wasted. In the manufacture of gas from coal,for example, important by-products are coke, tar, and am-monia. There has been g
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