WASTE PRODUCTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10425, 16 September 1911, Page 4

WASTE PRODUCTS.

Tlhe letter publisfhed in our issue of yestterdlay by Mr J. Ilotit, .of WelMngfton, in regard to turning to profitable acount the waslt© prodiuots foom our butter aad cheese (factories is of particular interest •to tliE's disriot, dealing as it doe© with two of our most important industries. As our correspondent jpoints out, if We Only consider.for a momemt the great ad\na."nce<rn'ent that.:bias already ;been ttuade in •rejgard! to this utilisation of the wjaste [products of oltiher industries, we vtidt at once realise what a wide tandi im|poritant .field the daily industry affordis us in this conneo tioh. A .splendid example of the utilisation of wiaste products tis shown, for instance, in the .'business of tfhe Armour Meaft Works',, of •Chicago, which, for ,some years past has totaled.' over six anilldon. pounds. Out of these waste prodiucts alone Biabstanitiad dividends were paid. The question is "whether the- Government, instead of establishing works, .which the 'Budget would indioaitfe, would! not better further the purpose th&t they desire by offering a bonus, to producers.