Show SAVE tour YOUK bags RAGS for FOK nearly a year past we have been making our own paper at the mill imported by prest young which is now on big canon canlon creek owing to various causes our paper thus made has cost us more per ream than paper imported from the east would have done this Is we 61 expected acted when we comm commenced led to run g the e mill would be the case for awhile papermaking paper making like every other branch of business requires a thorough knowledge of its details and an experience in its management to enable one to know how to manufacture it in economical and inexpensive manner budwith but bui with all the difficulties and annoyances that we have had to contend with we feel gratified at the success we have had and feel encouraged to persevere having the machin ery it is a branch of f home manufacture that should not be neglected or suffered to languish we are however on the point of stopping operations for the want of stock out of which to make paper we want rags we have constantly advertised for them but we find ourselves now atthe beginning of the winter when we should be running the mill up to its full fall capacity so as to get a good supply before the machinery is frozen up almost out of rags the prospect is not a pleasant one we are convinced that there t ere is enough material of this kind in ili the territory if it were properly husbanded hus banded to keep the mill running up to its full capacity all the season but it is wasted rags bags are usually viewed as worth worthless leea unless a housekeeper wishes to miao a carpet though the price offered f an fn r thea tue the u not very ery large yet they should ui be wasted every evory scrap should be save saved d and put away in a bar bag baffari hirome some bome convenient place until a sufficient guart quart tv is obtained to sell ay this pian plan they r c 13 k be utu utilized izod and we ve will have havethe ithe st bbb f which we resize fo for r papermaking ak ii we wa had bad the machinery for converting straw into inlo pulp weco weeo we could uhl make paper out of a much smaller proportion of rags but in the absence of this thia and until we can procure it we must depend upon the J latter alter will our friends bishops agents and others aid us 4 fry urging this subject upon the attention of the people many of our subscribers might nind find this a convenient way of helping to pay their subscriptions and children who wish to obtain the juu jbv juvenile instructor can be stimulated to collect rags and send here we ve will sell rell back volumes of that periodical and other books or pay money for rags |