Show for postage stamps postage stamps that uncle sam gain must produce every year call for or in no enormous 9 amount of material the weight of the paper used in a single stamp Is so blight that only most mort sen a en scales will register 1 I it but during I 1 a period of 12 months pounds of paper are used for stamps pik by the bureau of engraving and printing tills paper la Is made into sheets about of a newspaper page pace and DO of these sheets are used fach each year six hundred thousand pounds of dex trIne and pounds bounds 0 of glucose are anu bally hally consumed in the process each year about poi pounds liada of ink are used in the printing of the various issues |