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The Waterloo sugar factory is a former sugar factory in Waterloo, in the south of the former Province of Brabant in Belgium. The building was a sugar factory from 1836 to 1871. Later it was used by a dairy company. The industrial area is now known as Waterloo Office Park.
By this time, several other companies had begun to build and sell tractors, but the Waterloo Boy was easily one of the most popular. In 1918, Deere & Company, a farm equipment company based in Moline, Illinois purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company for $2,100,000. Deere & Company had been anxious to enter the growing tractor market, but ...
The company was founded by engineers Frank S. Washburn and Charles H. Baker in New York City in 1907, to capitalize on a German patent they had licensed for the manufacture of nitrogen products for fertilizer. [2] The company's name is derived from the chemical calcium cyanamide, the fertilizer they would manufacture.
A manure spreader, muck spreader, or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer. A typical (modern) manure spreader consists of a trailer towed behind a tractor with a rotating mechanism driven by the tractor's power take off (PTO). Truck mounted manure spreaders are also common in North America.
A PTO at the rear end of a farm tractor A PTO (in the box at the bottom) in the center of the three-point hitch of a tractor. A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.
Agricultural wastewater treatment is a farm management agenda for controlling pollution from confined animal operations and from surface runoff that may be contaminated by chemicals in fertilizer, pesticides, animal slurry, crop residues or irrigation water. Agricultural wastewater treatment is required for continuous confined animal operations ...
The main use of calcium cyanamide is in agriculture as a fertilizer. [3] In contact with water, it hydrolyses into hydrogen cyanamide which decomposes and liberates ammonia: [5] CaCN 2 + 3 H 2 O → 2 NH 3 + CaCO 3. It was used to produce sodium cyanide by fusing with sodium carbonate: CaCN 2 + Na 2 CO 3 + 2 C → 2 NaCN + CaO + 2 CO
Night soil is a historically used euphemism for human excreta collected from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, septic tanks, etc. This material was removed from the immediate area, usually at night, by workers employed in this trade. Sometimes it could be transported out of towns and sold on as a fertilizer.