The Maritime Farmer and Co-operative Dairyman - 1911-02-21 - Niagara Lime-Sulphur Plant at Kentville

The Maritime Farmer and Co-operative Dairyman - 1911-02-21 - Niagara Lime-Sulphur Plant at Kentville

A news article was published in the February 1911 issue of The Maritime Farmer and Co-operative Dairyman trade magazine about a new fertilizer factory located near Kentville on the Kingsport Branch line. The scan of the article appears below, while the article text is shown here for search purposes:

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Niagara Lime-Sulphur Plant at Kentville

Daily Output 4,000 Gallons.

ln response to the invitation of the Manager, C. 0. Allen. one of our staff recently visited the plant of the Niagara Spray Company of Nova Scotia, located west and north of the Provincial Sanatorium on the C. V. Railway and just outside the town of Kentville.

The rather unpretentious looking building, from the exterior, has somewhat the appearance of the grain elevator of the west. But if there is nothing striking about the outside, the visitor has but to enter when he cannot fail but to be impressed with the amount of machinery, tanks, etc., packed so snugly, everything fitting into just lhe right place, but at the same time crowding is entirely lacking.

A fine running elevator took our correspondent and party to the upper story where the lime is slaked, and sulphur added. From there the mixture passed into the vast tank holding 7,000 gallons where under the proper conditions it is boiled to just the point by steam heat. From this tank the solution passes to the filter, where under immense pressure every particle of solid, not dissolved, is removed. Then it passes on to the strong tank 15 feet high, with a diameter of ten feet, holding 7,000 gallons, next the liquid passes to the measuring tank from which it is drawn off into new casks manufactured expressly for the trade by Mr. J. I. Gates whose cooperage is at the foot of Joe Bell Hill.

A 60 h. p, boiler with 15 h. p. engine furnishes the power for the plant and for the dynamo, which supplies light for the whole building.

A force of nine men are needed to keep the factory running the whole 24 hours, the wages paid adding considerable to the revenue of the country while the saving of $2.50 freight on each cask from Ontario will this year amount to thousands of dollars to those using lime-sulphur as a spray.

Space forbids us giving a fuller description of this plant but it is well for the proposed user of spray material to know that the Niagara Brand of Lime Sulphur for which this company paid thousands of dollars for the exclusive right of using the formula in the Maritime Provinces is acknowledged to be the best brand of the article manufactured to day, and also that Mr. F. A. Frazier of Oregon, who installed this plant, has erected, equipped and run every Niagara Brand factory in existence, and further that Mr. Frazier, who probably knows as much about lime-sulphur as any man living, with Prof. Cordely, of the Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon, worked out this formula used by the Niagara Brand Spray factories in the United States and Canada.

Some of this finished product tested by Mr. Frazier with a hydrometer marked in the Beaume scale, showed a reading of 32.5 degrees, one-half of a degree better than the guarantee of the company. In some varieties of commercial Lime Sulphur, when enough solids have been dissolved to give a test as high as the above, crystalization has taken place and the efficacy of the solution has been much impaired, but the Niagara Brand Lime Sulphur is guaranteed to test 32 degrees without the least trace of any crystals being formed, in the concentrated article.—From Kentville Chronicle.

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