Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1917 — Potash Carried on Camels. [ARTICLE]

Potash Carried on Camels.

A New York potato expert recently gave a remarkable account of how the war has brought about changes in the production of that valuable subSance. So valuable has potash become with the great German, supply cut. off that Italian chemical men are now getting potash from deposits of far-off Abyssinia, carrying it In small quantities on the backs of camels across a waterless desert to the Red sea, and then shipping it to Europe at a handsome profit.