The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
Scran Basket.

STAIN of pitch, varnish and oil paint
which have become dry and old, must
first be softened with little fresh but
ter or lard before trying either turpen-
tine or alcoholic the volatile oil of tur-
pentine will only take out recent stains.
KNIVES with ivory handles which
have become loosened Or have fallen
out entirely, can be cemented at home,
and with small expense, by using this
cement: Take four parts of resin, ore
part of beeswax, one part of plaster of
Paris; fill the hole in the handle with
the cement, then heat the steel of the
handle, and press it firmly into the
cement
BENzINE is very excellent prepare
ton for removing simple stains Of
grease from articles that cannot be
| washed, such as leather and cloth. The
grease spots should be rubbed with a
clean flannel which has been wet with
benzine. Commence from the outer
edge of the spoiled spot, and rub in
wards. Be careful not to extend the
surface of the spot in your efforts to
take it out. The application of heat is
| another method of removing small spots
of grease from silk and wool. Some
people hold red-hot poker over the
spot, by which means the grease be-
comes volatized, and Immediately dis
appears.
HANGING baskets require frequent
watering, to accomplish which, with
due regard for the carpet beneath, they
must commonly be taken down from
their perches and then suspended else
where to dry. This trouble may be
avoided by simple and inexpensive
device. Fill bottle with water, into
which insert the ends of two pieces of
yarn, permitting the other end of each
piece to hang down outside the bottle.
The bottle should be suspended just
above the basket, and the water allowed
to drop, which will follow in sufficient
quantities to keep the earth moist.
Wheat Farmers in India and Australia.
"A New York Sun reporter has had an
interview with j. G. Bookwalter, lately
Democratic candidate for governor of
Ohio, and who has recently returned
from the wheat fields of India and Aus
tralia. He says:
by the aid of labor saving machinery
this country can grow agricultural
products that would meet the require
ments of at least 100000 people. As
we have only 100000 of home con-
sumers we are obliged to look to foreign
| countries for consumption of a por-
| ton, else the price at which we would
be compelled to sell the whole amount
in this country would fall below the re-
munerative point, as the price Of the
exported surplus fixes the value of the
whole product.
ITO know how important factor this
expectation of agricultural products has
been in maintaining the prosperity of
this country it is only necessary to re-
fer to the fact that in the last ten years
those products in this country amount
ed to $20,000,000 for home consumption,
besides furnishing $6,000000,000 for
expectation. It is therefore apparent,
since the price Of agricultural products
| is fixed IN foreign countries, that it is
just as important for the farmers in
Alabama or Iowa to consult the daily
| quotations In the market of Liverpool
and Kurachee as it is to consult the
quotations of Chicago and New York.
"The agricultural products of this
country stand at great disadvantage
from the fact that the price of that
| which they consume and do not pro-
duce is SO much greater than like prices
| to the farmers of other countries that it
| is difficult-even though our farmers
possess certain advantages over them
to produce the same things at as low
| price. This anomaly exists in our in
| dustrial system, that while the price of
| what our farmers and planters receive
for their products is fixed by compensa-
ton in foreign markets, the price of that
which they consume and do not pro-
| duce is arbitrarily fixed by the Congress
| OF the United States. It would seem,
in all fairness, that the price of what
they buy should be fixed in the same
markets that fix the price at which they
| sell. 1t is remarked that tine agricult-
wrists of this country seem not to have
| discovered the fact that, having for
many years competed with the peas
| antry and cheap labor of France, Rus
STA and South America, and now having
| to confront new rival in India, who
works for cents day, there is staring
| him In the face the necessity of reduc-
| ing the cost of production"
|
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