18—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 8, 1973
USDA Study to Probe
Energy From Manure
Two current environmental
problems-need for more energy
generation and to return used
resources back to environment in
usable forms-will be studied at
Tennessee State University,
Nashville.
A $59,610 grant awarded by the
U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s (USDA)
Cooperative State Research
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example. The same bolds true for
washing, milldng and in some
cases, scraping the barn. Here
again, the operator of this new
system is not nearly as flexible as
his neighbor in the “old” stan
chion bam. It is a good idea to
have a standby generator on any
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farm, especially those which are
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be used in place of natural gas or
gasoline, researchers say .'Sludge
produced could be used for fer
tilizer.
Scientists expect the study to
give information on amounts of
useful fuel and amounts and
kinds of sludge produced.
Adapting a “bio-gas” process
used in India, the anaerobic
conversion of manure to methane
may show whether small farmers
might practically use the process
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