Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The sycamore tree bears fruit after twenty years’ growth. Ammonia water which has been used for washing may be further utilized as a fertilizer for plants. New Zealand is going extensively into the building of concrete roads, because the cost of upkeep is low. Mrs. J. McCoy of Seattle is believed to be the only woman in America who earns a livlihood as a ship painter. j Sound travels at twelve miles a minute, and gunfire in France when heard in England takes about fifteen minutes to travel there. ' 1 Locust eggs, treated with sulphur,ic acid and lime, are used as fertilizers in Mediterranean countries when the insects are numerous. The residue of the indigo plant after the extraction of the indican, known commercially as indigo, is used in India as a fertilizer for tobacco. Monkey hunters walk about in boots, which they take off in sight of the monkeys and plaster the insoles with gum. The imitative animals, when the coast is clear, come down from the trees and put on the boots. Thus they are trapped, for they can no longer climb.