In doing this the forests of the coun
try are being destroyed—not. of
course, in as ruthless a manner as
that for which our paper demands
are responsible, hut still to a meas
urable extent.
“Cotton linteis have been used
: very successfully for this purpose.
| and they do not require years to
i grow, as do our forests. Other fibres
1 might well he grown in the south
which would furnish the necessary)
cellulose for this work of the chem
ist, and the entire industry moved j
nearer the- source of supply and ;
made to produce and spend its wealth j
there.
“A third very Striking exftmple of
what chemists can do is the utiliza
tion of oat husks to manufacture
furfural, a raw material of an ever
widening circle of uses. Now the
waste of one of the large manufac
tories of roiled oats is being con
verted into insulating materials, rub
ber. varnish and what-not by this
chemical process.
"An endless variety of materials at
! present wasted in the south could he
j made to produce wealth for the south j
by this process. The peanut hulls of:
the Atlantic seaboard, the bran of
our flour mills, the corn cobs of our
grist mills, and. in fact, any similar
waste, are perfectly good raw ma
terials for the furfural plant.” ,
New York will have four labor
hanks within a few months, the 1
latest being the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers Co-operative;
Trust company, which has just offi
cially announced its intention to or- !
ganize in that state.
