Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1948 — Aluminum in the Garden [ARTICLE]

Aluminum in the Garden

If a gardening enthusiast could obtain in its pure state all of the aluminum that he unearths in his daily diggings, he'd have enough of the metal to completely equip the home with cooking utensils and probably. with an all-aluminum house. For, potentially, every pail of garden dirt contains a pound of the lightweight metal. But the gardener would find if he dug himself a couple of tons of garden dirt that, although theoretically he might have approximately 500 pounds of aluminum, it would cost him a fortune to separate it from the earth.