The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-10-03
Industry Of TIE Trsaeh.
BROOM FACTORIES.
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iSs~ Orleans Cooperative News
Tne French are, as a nation, the riches
people on the globe, and have their wealth
more evenly distributed. The great wal
Indemnity which Germany condemned
France to pay wonId have ruin ed any 9th hel
country, and Germany had calculated thai
is would cripple France for half q century
ont TO the amazemeut of the word, France
anticipated the periods of payment, and
With hardly an effort relieved herself of the
debt and the presence of the Germans plac-
ed there to collect it.
| This was done by the efforts of the small
farmers all over France. They had been
taught economy, not only OF money when
they had 1t IN hand, but economy of time,
that they might use every moment and
make money. Each farmer, aud France is
SUB divided into small fsrma. practices
nlmseIf and teaches every member of his
| family small dustries, so that when they
! are unable to work NJ ore thing they take
up something else; when they cannot ~ OF 4
out doors they work in doors. Every body,
Old aud y"nOg, is busy every day durin :
the time for labor, aud there il alway 5
| w0rk tor every one to do. And vet they
give more time TO amusemeut than any
| other people. The Swiss ere ike the Facu ch
only they are greater manufacturers and
are not so much occupied in farming.
| When France wanted money these small
farmers, the real patriots after all, drew
out their wallets, purses and stockings, and
every one had goodly and timely supply
of gold and silver laid up from their earn
| ings, and they paid off the debt without a
groau, and could have doubled the amount.
hese French farmers make every thing
they can at home they make up into artl-
| c!es of prime use what we throw away.
II they Kill chicken they put nearly
every feather to use some are used for
pillows, beds and holsters some are saved
for fans, and some are dyed and worked 10 .
! to varicoOred brushes and tufts for hats.
IT hog Is kilted not particle is lost: the
blood is carefully caught ana made into
| blood sausages, the hair is saved for the
plasterer; the bristles are made in brushes
and waxed ends for sewing shoes and
nnending harness; the tripes, kidneys end
every intestine is saved.
II lamb dies, the skin is taken off,
dried, dressed, tanned and made inra glove
lining, coat collars, muffs, or other arti-
! cles. All these little things are watched
| and attended to, and nearly every article
used at home is made at home. The rainy
days, long winter nights, aud off seasons
are all utilized.
In many places, all over the country ia
France, the farmers get yarn cotton, OF
WOODEN, and they and their families work
them up by knitting machines into those
| beautiful socks, stockings aud knit under
wear which we import.
Such industry on the part of the farming
classes has made France wealthy and her
citizens the truest of patriots.
Our farmers might initiate, to come de-
gree, this persistent and watchful industry.
Broom making is a very simple process,
ana can be learned by any man or lad of
ordinary intelligence in q very few days,
and We are utilitsrian enough to believe
that it would do no harm for some one on
every farm to know how to make brooms
Brooms are articles which all need, and
which ninety pine farmers in a hundred
buy, when nearly all might have them
made at home. And as brooms are bulky
article, it might be as well if each Grange,
at least, would have a manufactory of
brooms in its Jurisdiction to supply the
I wants of the neighborhcod,
a few apt boys, under the charge of some
one who ia skilled ia broom maklug, coul!
soon learn useful ana profitable trade. a
manufactory would pay if it were oniy run
during the winter months, when boys
might otherwise be idle.
AT present there are some ten broom
man ufacturies in New Orleans, auG they
are dependent chiefly on She West and
North for their broom corH, While what
they make into br0omS ia not drop IN the
bucket toward supplying the demand, our
brooms are made at the North and West
when we should make them at home.
We have taken the trOubie TO get the
prices of such material aud machines as are
Decessery in starting broom factory, for
we are strong in the belief that We must
| start more houle industries and neighbor
hood man ufactories:
Tying machines, $50: shoulder presses, SIS :;
No. IS, b. purple twlne, .ib handles. 35cT tb
No. ls. grey do Bic > h Nos. % and %, timed
wire, l5c = lS-No. - used mostly here: Nv.
l, pine handles, s17 I thousand No. >, pine
handles, SIS 4 Thousand; No. l. white wood
handles, S1S {! thousand: No. l, gum handles.
Sl5 4 thousand No. =, gum handles, S!6 =
Thousand; striped, varDished and half . ain ted
handles. s2i z thousand. Toois-Broad knives,
81 50 each ; narrow knives, $ - each poo n
ders, 81 70 each needles, 100 each cuff, 81
wood Sf e hundred.
T. J. BRowS, Esq, PAPER HANGER, Ere -