USES FOR SAWDUST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1248, 21 May 1914, Page 4

USES FOR SAWDUST.

American and Canadian sawmills have discovered that the sawdust which they have been perplexed how to rid themselves of the worthless encumbrance is worth a ton, In Baltimore a chemist has perfected a process of extracting gas from sawdust adequate enough to supply a city like Ottawa with light and heat at 5d per iooo feet. This is thought to portend that around the great sawmills, which have been emptying their dust into the Ottawa riv ;r, a variety of new industries subsisting ou it are likely to grow up. In Aifstria, where everything in the shape of fuel is being carefid’y searched for, sawdust is impregnated with the mixture of tarry substances and healed to the proper temperature < it is then passed over a plate of iron heated by steam, from which a conveyor takes it to a press, where it is compressed into briquettes of the required size. The press turns out about nineteen every minute, weighing two-fifths of a pound each, and measuring (fin by 2% in t>y li-in. One factory alone produces something like 7,000,000 briquettes a year. In Germany there is a bakery that turns out 20,000 loaves ot sawdust bread daily, and finds an open market ‘o'- "his product. Although this sawdust bread is intended for consumption for horses only, it is claimed by the mauutacturers that, in case of famine, sawdust bread would furnish a nutritious and very highly satisfactory food for human beings.