Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — TRADE BRIEFS OF INTEREST [ARTICLE]

TRADE BRIEFS OF INTEREST

Garden and grass seeds are in demand In Argentina. Prices for an asbestos shingle plant are wanted in Bristol, Va. An Italian firm has asked'for catalogues for flour mill machinery. Peruvian merchants wish to purchase a plant for the manufacture of rbßorbent cotton. s Data and prices on gas analysis Instruments are desired by a concern In Clarksdal4, Miss. A market exists in India for power plants, such as engines and equipment for the hauling of rice. A French firm Jn Lyon wants to represent Araericah makers of yarns, schappe silk and artificial silk. Brick supplies are needed for new university buildings In Atlanta, Ga. The buildings are to cost $225,000. f There Is a market In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for rabbit hair that can be used for the making of felt hats. An odorless garbage can has been Invented in which refuse is placed on a shelf and scraped into the receptacle by turning a handle without opening the lid. For motor trucks with broad, flat tires an Englishman has invented an antiskidding device consisting of large metal rings fastened together with chains. Double-tread wheels have been invented for motortrucks, the inner treads, which are slightly smaller than the tire-carrying ones, being formed to fit railroad tracks. All previous records of graiil-hand-ling were broken by the government elevator at Port Colborne, Ontario, when 404,000 bushels of wheat were discharged in eight hours. Doors for a double garage invented by a Washington man consist of two at the sides, hung in the usual manner, and a central one double the size of the others, swung on a central pivot.