Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-01-27
FRENCH FARMERS SPEND
HALE CROP ON FERTILIZERS

That French farmers are spending
half the value of their crop on fer
/ tilizer, to bring the land back to pre-
war production standard, was the
statement of Professor c.. Nj. Brews-
ter of the chemistry department in
an address on Europe as | Saw 1t,
given before the Students League OF
the State College of Washington. He
illustrated his talk with lantern
slides he made from kodak pictures
he took last summer while touring
the continent in an inspection of the
chemical plants, especially those
dealing with volatile oils, such as
the manufacturing of perfumes.
! Starting from New York in a for
eign steamer showing the immigrant
traffic which really pays the bills of
the transatlantic passenger boats, he
! he took his audience first to the
white chalk cliffs of England,
through Plymouth and London to
Warwick and Stratford. Then across
the channel to Hollond, he conduct
! ed them up the canals and into hay
fields where, on account OF the war,
there were 20 women and children
at work to every man
At Berlin University he showed
where machine-gun bullets had
/ Scared the fronts of BUILDINGS dur
ing the riots, and spoke of the com
fort of being able to walk down the
/ street without being forced off the
sidewalk into the cutters by swag-
/ gering German soldiery. Large piles
of barbed wire are still visible used
| to stop mobs. The university stu
dents. he said, looked half sta
/ In the country, however, there is
great contrast in the comfortable
homes, to the country across the
border in France. He showed a pie
ture of a jolly, fat-cheeked German
mans felt themselves very poor in
deed in that they still continue wan
economies, they really can not be
said to suffer as they have caused
their neighbors to suffer. The main
fear, he said, seems to be on account
Of the lack Of clothing, as the PFC
war supply is all worn out. The cos
tune the little girl wore cost only
! Is cents.
Inside the war zone tractors are
being used in the farming operation ;.
but further back in the country the
farming plots are too small for that.
Conditions are evidently returning
to something like normal throughout
1 Germany. Up the Rhine valley. into
Switzerland and through the Alps to
Italy the lecturer showed fine views
of scenic and historic Importance
Rome, Vesuyus, Venice, Naples and
southern France, before going into
Paris and up to the battlefields.
At Madras is the fine monument
to the memory of Chris, the pro
moter of the growing of the best
kinds of flowers for perfume manu-
facture. among the peasants. bring
ing them and the industry immense
increase of profits
Discussing his investigations Of
the manufacture Of essential oils and
studies along this line in European
institutions, he said that there is
much closer coordination between
the research chemists in universities
and the manufacturers than there is
here in this country. And there is
no unemployment problem over
there Competition with the French
and German chemical factories must
be met here, because they can pro-
duce their product much cheaper
than we can
Hundred-pound loads of sweet law
ender flowers on donkey-backs, for
the manufacture Of oil of lavender
was shown in transport from the
fields and gardens to the factory.
Mules driven round and round 10
tread out grain in primitive thresh-
ing and jasmine flowers piled
three feet deep in bins, drying for
perfume manufacture, were among