POLLUTION SOLUTION: enrich and restore the soil by using organic wastes • Another example of North American Car innovations that turn demanding customers into happy working partners
M SEMCO (Soil Enrichment Materials Corporation) is a new company working in the field of environmental improvement. It specializes in utilizing organic wastes to enrich and restore soil without risking impairment of waterquality or soil productivity. SEMCO came to North American Car with a problem. How could they pick up large quantities of fully digested and aged organic fertilizer processed and stored in lagoons by the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago and get it to the farmlands where it was needed? North American Car came up with customized cars to help SEMCO's scientists and agronomists get this fertilizer to the farmlands where its nutrients will help farmers raise bumper crops. (Tests by universities and others prove this type of fertilizer improves crop production substantially.) At one location, 3,000 tons of slurry a day are moved through a pipeline to a rail loading site where high-speed pumps transfer it into tank cars. Then it is moved by the trainload to a farm region where it is restored to the soil. SEMCO's and North American's partnership takes the scientific approach to the completion of the ecological cycle. Chicago is only the beginning. Our partnership can enrich farmlands anywhere by utilizing organic wastes which pose an ever growing problem to every municipality or industry. It's a big job, and it can only be done effectively by the trainload. MEMBER North American Car Corporation, 77 A M I South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312)346-0400.'
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