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cause of the shortage of new material
plus increased demand. Our farms
are said to be harboring millions of dollars
worth of scrap and waste because
we have never developed an
adequate system by which these
odds and ends may be collected
In Europe they are all picked up and
utilizied, but there the junkman's cart
wanders chiefly through the cities &
towns. The country is neglected. The
waste trade to-day is a different business,
carefully organized. 2^nd article
from the "Farm Journal" on the same
subject "Wealth from Waste". It has
been truthfully said that the waste of
the American Farmer are great enough
to support him and his family. At
the expence of thousands of dollars,
for outfits the manufacturer making
material out of broken glass
perfumes and dyes from sewage
pine apple oil from purtid cheese;
car wheels and celuloid collers and
paint requiring no oil from skim
milk, beautiful white paper out of
dirty rags etc Stupendous fortunes
and being built upon wastes which
average folks over - look X X Let us
begin to - day, to make it our business
to see that nothing on the farm is
wasted

2^nd Reader Anna Nesbitt read "potato
spraying lessons" Experiment