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INDIA KL'1J15ER PAINTS. 



These have in the past been widely advertised and sold, hut 

 they were oil or asphaltnm at heart, not rubber. Scrap rubber 

 is likely to furnish actual rubber paints and real rubber roofing". 

 It will mean ex]ierinient and adjustment and a new series of 

 dryers, but that should not baffle the chemist in this day of rubber 

 expansion. 



RUliBER CAR SPRINGS. 



As the price of rul)ber in the past increased, certain products 

 disappeared — the rubber car spring for example. As an assistant 

 for the excellent steel springs of today, with a new and lower 

 scale of prices it will come back, not only in railway carriages, but 

 in manifold places where cost has prevented its use. Wherever 

 there is a shock there will be put a rubber spring ; wherever a 

 rattle, an anti-rattler. 



INDIA RUnilER PAPER. 



Goodyear had a book with pages of rubber and fiber. Then 

 rubber became costly and it was forgotten. For certain moisture 

 proof ])apers rubber is certainly better than oil. In wall pa])ers 

 of the Lincrusta Walton type it is more than a possibility. Bible 

 papers made of pure gum would be wonderfully suited to certain 

 modern creeds. 



RrnnER crockery. 



It is witli mucli doul^t that I make this suggestion — that of white 

 rubl)er dishe-^ fur the great restaurants, or bath tubs of hard 

 rubber f(ir the home. Perhaps it is as well not to encroach 

 upon tlie potterv industry imtil rul)ber becomes as cheap as 

 Kaolin. 



The list grows long, and this is l)ut a beginning : there are 

 scores of industries yet to be viewed, and above all the backbone 

 of all prosperity — the farmer — has been neglected. Perhap.s — and 

 this is but a vague suggestion — if he raised his milk-fed chickens 

 on nililier latex, egg shells would cease to be fragile. — India Rub- 

 ber J J' or Id. 



Six thous;ind 1)Us1k1s of lodgepole i)ine seed are being col- 

 lected this fall on the Aranahoc national forest, Colorado, for use 

 in reforestation work next spring. 



\\'illiam Penn, in his Charter of Rights, provided that for 

 everv five acres of forest cleared one acre should be left in 

 woods. Foresters today maintain that on an average one-fifth 

 of every farm should be in timber. 



