Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS,
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Much Smoking Tobacco ynsted-vir.
sinin Mny Grow Rice-Auto
Trucks Doing Their BIT.

Speaking about economy and con-
servation. Of which we hear so much
nowadays" said tobacco manufac-
turer. who is himself large consumer
OF the product Of his smoking tobacco
factory, do you know that II there
could BIO invented some way to stop
the waste OF smoking tobacco. the an
nual production OF the factories OF
this country would be cut down 90 or
20 per cent? It's fact. A man rarely
ever smokes up all the tobacco he puts
in his pipe. and when he gets ready
TO fill up again, what was left from
the former smoke is knocked out and
wasted. Every smoker, by CARELESS
ness. leaves considerable remnant
In every bag or can of tobacco no
uses. When he fills his pipe many
crumbs of tobacco stick to his hands.
and instead of rubbing them back into
his bag or pocket he brushes them off
to the winds. A man takes a smoke
when he knows he has not time to
finish pipeful and yet he fills the
pipe brimming full. Then, when it is
half smoked out and he Is calleu back
to business. he throws the other half
away. or course a smoker cannot save
every crumb. but there is no good rea-
son why he should waste one-fourth
Of the smoking tobacco he buys"
An old citizen of King William Coun-
~ is authority for the statement that
Atty years ago and less the people
living along the banks Of the York.
Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers raised
a good deal Of rice. and found It to
be profitable crop. lIe thinks that
what they once did can be done again.
and he wants The Times Dispatch to
suggest that some OF them try it again.
now that rice. like everything else.
has become costly. If any one acts
upon the suggestion and finds It to
nj nj a t,,nt -
rice-growing State, for 1t certainly has
any amount OF swamp land. the kind
upon which this cereal fourishes in
the Far South.
AUTOMOBILES arc about to do up the
Bristol street railway. and It looks ae
II this will be the solution Of the
Fidewater and Western Railway mat
ter" says the Farmville Leader. and
then it ADDS that trainers and others
along the narrow-gauge line. in the
counties Of Cumberland, Powhatan and
Chesterfield. are buying motor trucks
and hauling the produce to the Ches-
apeake and Ohio on the one side and
10 the Norfolk and Western on the
other. land. as the days go by. the
chances of the narrow-gauge running
again diminish. Between autos and
trunk lines, 1t Is caught between the
upper and neither mill stones aad
ground to pieces"
Here is cheering story taken from
the Wall Street Journal that will en-
courage those who think they have in
Surmountable difficulties to contend
with:
Those alarmists who claimed that
the battle fields OF France would be
UNIT for agriculture for some time be-
cause of the rich top soil being blast
cd away and the rank undcrsoil thrown
ur on the surface. and because of the
presence of shells and uneNploded
bombs have been answered by fact.
The reclaimed areas of France arc
already blooming. and as fast as new
sections are recaptured from tho Ger
mans the work of rehabilitation be-
gins. The ground is first searched for
shells and bombs. which are gathered
together and exploded. after which the
most modern agricultural equipment
plows and harrows the fields that were
honeycombcd with trenches only
short time before. And German pr!s-
oners are forced 90 do their share in
restoring that which they helped to
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