Show MONEY IN DOMESTIC SUMAC Wild Plant Needed In Tanning and m Dyeing Industry Worth From to 4 a Hundred Prepared by the United States liepart ment of or Agriculture Women and children on farms can make good wages early this fall by gathering and curing sumac as fiS a side line To assist In firmly establishing the industry of ot gathering this wild plant plant plane a source of tannin used In tanning tanning tanning tan tan- ning and dyeing the dyeing the department of agriculture is soon to publish In n a bulletin bulletin bulletin bul bul- letin helpful suggestions to gatherers ers and dealers denIers It is believed that the possibilities of the tile sumac Industry have not been realized and ond that the wars war's Interruption of Sicilian Importations makes males the present an opportune time to place the tile Industry on a firmer footing The sumac plant Is chiefly y abundant east of ot the tho Mississippi river from Maine to central Georgia und ant Mississippi Il Domestic Dome Uc sumac as now prepared for market marlet contains less tannin and is much inferior In color to the imported Sicilian sumac When properly gathered gathered gath gath- I gath-I ered cred and cured curet domestic sumac leaf leat I i iI contains from Crom 25 i to 30 per cent of tannin tannin tan- tan I nin practically as ns much as the he Sicilian variety Gatherers in this countr country country- In recent years have received a low price for sumac sumac from from SO 80 cents to per hundred pounds Carefully gathered and properly cured Sicilian lun sumac leaf lent sells In this countr country at from to I 4 4 a u hundred pounds i Proper methods of gathering curing I and handling sumac are explained In fn Inthe Inthe the thc bulletin The rhe common domestic varieties of sumac are described so 0 that tint the they may be readily reco recognized and data on the comparative tannin content are given together with other practical information on the subject |