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Show WASTE MATERIALS. That the -praste materials business in tho Unitod States amounts, In tho aggregate, ag-gregate, to nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars annually is a fact not genorally known, yot Bnch is tho caso. Tho business has bocomo so oxtenslvo that a National Association of Waste Material dealers has been organised and a banquot. given the mcnibora In New York. Evidently tho odds and ends that woro formerly thrown away aro now being picked up and disposed of to tho best advantage. It is proof of thrift on tho part of tho American people they wero not given credit for possessing. For many years past tho United States has imported cotton and woolen rags from Europo which wero mado into in-to tho cheaper grades of clothing. Wo aro now exporting wasto materials of this kind. Last yoar tho oxports from this country to Europo includod $800,-000 $800,-000 worth of cotton rags, $1,000,000 of woolon rags, $1,200,000 of scrap iron, $1,600,000 of roclnimod rubber and .$2,000,000 of scrap brass. At last wo aro beginning to tako the advico given in Poor EichaTds's almanac alma-nac and are trusting tho pounds to tako care of thomsolves, whilo wo look aftor tho ponnics. Perhaps aftor a time we shall bo ablo to reduco tho present pres-ent high cost of living by practicing oconomy and stopping the wasto in tho supply of food products. At any rato, a wasto matorial business of $700,000,-000 $700,000,-000 yearly in tho United States shows that wo aro moving in the right direction, direc-tion, whothor or not wo aTo over able to properly consorvo tho food supply. |