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Like Agent 007 plot
Griffin scientist
uses oxygen ‘bomb’
It sounds like an lan Fleming
Agent 007 plot: A scientist
patiently working, along in his
laboratory, with a bomb. But
it’s for real, at the Georgia
Station of the University of
Georgia College of agriculture
Experiment Stations.
Dr. D. M. Baird, associate
professor of animal science at
the station, is using an oxygen
bomb to test the value of
various animal feeds.
Actually, the device is called
a calorimeter. It’s used to
measure heat values in animal
waste. Because it uses oxygen
in the combustion process, it’s
referred to as an oxygen bomb.
FEED
Baird says his goal is to find a
feed or combination of feeds
which will be used most com
pletely by the animal, leaving
less non-metabolizable material
in the animal’s waste.
“In using the calorimeter,”
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Baird explains, “we take
samples from an animal’s urine
and feces after it’s been fed a
controlled diet. We put a sample
of known weight into the
calorimeter and charge it with
oxygen. A spark ignites the
sample. When it burns, it raises
the temperature of the bomb
and its surrounding water, and
we use calculations on this rise
to determine the gross energy of
the sample.”
“Basically,” Baird says, “we
want to make feed more ef
ficient.
“The problem that I’m
working with began several
years ago, when computers
became rather commonplace in
the larger feed mills. Operators
were using computerized for
mulas to mix the feed, based on
energy value. We found that we
didn’t have good energy values
for many of our feeds — such as
hog rations. As recently as 1965,
we had very few energy values
for pigs, so we couldn’t be
accurate when computer
mixing hog rations,” he ex
plains. “Most values of hog
feeds were extrapolations from
poultry values.”
LEAST COST
“Least-cost” rations are now
common, Baird says, but feed
firms have been handicapped
by a lack of information on hog
feeds. He adds that it’s essential
that effective least-cost for
mulas be developed by hogs to
save producers — and
ultimately consumers —
'money.
“Least-cost rations are those
which are computed and
changed as feed prices dictate.
The goal is to give farmers as
good as feed as possible at the
least possible price, and in the
shortest time. Computers
enable feed producers to do this
quickly, with as many as 18 or
20 variables included in the
formula. By hand, a complex
mix like this is almost impossi
ble, but a computer can do it in
seconds,” he says.
HOT RATIONS
Baird’s research also in
volves finding new sources of
hog rations.
“This grew out of the corn
blight problem” he explains.
“Corn was scarce and the
price was high, yet corn is a
major item in swine rations.
I’ve been trying to find new
energy sources, and some of the
results look rather promising.”
One such source is citrus
pulp.
“Normally, citrus pulp is
used as a supplement in beef or
dairy cattle rations. But under
certain conditions, I could
produce a hog ration that’s up to
20 per cent citrus pulp, provided
other energy requirements are
met. So here’s a potential new
source of feed when the price of
corn is high and the price of
citrus is low,” he says.
Citrus pulp energy values
already have been added to feed
ingredient charts, he adds.
CORN
“Another new source of feed
is in corn screenings — the
waste products of cleaning
processes at the elevator. A lot
of these screenings are best
thrown away or destroyed: they
look like dust. But we found they
had good energy value and
under certain conditions, could
be used in large quantities. Now
screenings are being used as a
feed component by some feed
manufacturers in Georgia,” he
says.
“It’s a good product.”
“I’m working mainly to
furnish values for the feed
manufacturer, who in turn will
supply the feed needs of the
farmer. If I can supply the feed
producer accurate information
on his feed so he can have data
available as he uses a com
puter, then the feeder can mix
more economical rations and
sell them more economically,”
Baird says.
“This also can serve to
recycle some formerly wasted
products, and of course this is
good,” he adds.
“It not only helps in the
conservation of energy but can
lower the cost of feed.”
SCRAPS
“I’ve also been working with
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Dr. D. M. Baird prepares a test on the calorimeter.
an Alabama firm on the
processing of human garbage —
table scraps — as swine feed.
This firm found that by heating
and drying the scrapings and
mixing them with other
ingredients, an acceptable
swine feed was produced. It’s
high in energy and obviously
low in cost,” Baird says.
“The catch comes in the
production area. It’s going to
cost a great deal to sort and
collect the scrapings. But
imagine the benefits from
reclaiming such a product from
the city the size of Atlanta, for
example. There’d be an im
mense saving in energy as far
as the nation is concerned.
“And most table scraps are
high in fat, which is energy;
most humans tend to cut fat
away from meat. This leaves us
with a product that’s much
higher in pure energy than in
carbohydrates. If we can save
on some of this, we’re con
serving energy. We’ve
produced good, economical
feeds made from about 75
percent sterilized garbage,
pelleted, with 25 percent corn
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ded,” he says.
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Rice bran, another byproduct |
of human feed, has just been |
shown to be high in energy and f
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values for as many swine feeds
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New saints for theology
By DAVID E. ANDERSON
UPI Religion Writer
One of the primary elements of traditional theology has
been biography and autobiography.
From the Gospel writers attempts to reconstruct the life
of Jesus, through St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” to such
contemporary efforts as Rogers Shinn’s “Wars and
Rumors of War,” in which Shinn uses his own experience
as a prisoner of war to probe Christian attitudes toward
war and peace, there has been a constant thread of
biography as theology.
It is important to note, however, that the theologians are
not interested just in religious biography. Rather,
biography or life stories are interesting to the theologian
as they allow him to explore theology’s traditional
questions and categories.
James Wm. McClendon, Jr., professor of theology at the
Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., has explored the
new interest in biographical theology in his book
“Biography as Theology” (Abingdon).
His starting point, however, is not theology per se but its
sister study, ethics.
He claims that the two dominant modes in ethics—the
situation ethics proposed by Joseph Fletcher and the
social ethics of Christian “realism,” made popular by the
late Reinhold Niebuhr—are at a dead end.
McClendon argues that “alongside the widespread
acceptance of these two compatible ethical styles, there is
the fact of our recent national moral harvest, symbolized
by the Watergate scandals and the Vietnamese war.”
In their place, McClendon proposes an “ethics of
character.”
Character for McClendon is both an individual attribute
and a communal attribute and is shaped by a person or
community’s vision, style and convictions.
“By recognizing that Christian beliefs are not so many
‘propositions’ to be catalogued or juggled like truth
functions in computer, but are living convictions which
give shape to actual lives and actual communities, we
open ourselves to the possibility that the only relevant
critical examination of Christian beliefs may be one which
begins by attending to lived lives,” he said.
McClendon presents the lives of four men to test his
theory— Dag Hammarskjold, Martin Luther King Jr.,
Clarence Jordan and Charles Ives.
In a middle chapter he takes Hammarskjold and King
and suggests how their lives illuminate a particular
traditional theological doctrine or category —the
atonement, the reconciliation of God and man.
He takes the traditional statement of that doctrine and
asks what can be said about it today.
“If we turn seeking an answer to the lives of Ham
marskjold and King, we find no evident interest in the
formal statement of the doctrine of the atonement.
“What we do find are dominant images ... steeped in
that doctrine; they can be truly understood only in the
light of that ancient doctrine.
“Atonement was not, as far as these men were
concerned, an anachronism; itwasnotperifpheral; it was
a focus of the very vision by which they lived.