Our country and its resources; . and benzoic acid. These are all manu-factured at home now. although notin the quantity that might be are very high. Rut we havedemonstrated our ability to manu-facture them and it is not likelythat we shall allow the experienceto go for naught. The lack of potash has been asore point. The German deposits canbe worked so cheaply that in thepast there has been no incentiveto recover the material from kelp,alunite or other sources, but whenthe German supply was cut off therebegan an eager searching of our ownresources. The result has been thatwe have
Our country and its resources; . and benzoic acid. These are all manu-factured at home now. although notin the quantity that might be are very high. Rut we havedemonstrated our ability to manu-facture them and it is not likelythat we shall allow the experienceto go for naught. The lack of potash has been asore point. The German deposits canbe worked so cheaply that in thepast there has been no incentiveto recover the material from kelp,alunite or other sources, but whenthe German supply was cut off therebegan an eager searching of our ownresources. The result has been thatwe have made considerable progressin recovering potash from kelp, alu-nite, the brine of certain alkalinelakes, tobacco stems, mica and in themanufacture of Portland supply has been barely sufficientfor industrial use. however, and ourfields have had to do without it. But our children have not beenobliged to do without toys. Ameri-can ingenuity stepped in quicklywhen the supply of German toyswas cut off and so far as novelty. AGRICULTURAL FAIR AT JOHANNESBURG. SOUTH AFRICA. SHOWINGAMERICAN MOTOR CARS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS 251 goods are concerned we are bettersupplied now than ever. Goodprogress has also been made in imi-tating typical German products, andit is not at all likely that SantaGlaus will ever again import heavilyfrom abroad to fill our a matter of fact we are doingsome foreign business in this lineourselves and satisfactory relationshave already been established withdealers in England, Australia andSouth America. We are now importing tin orefrom Bolivia and doing our ownsmelting. Formerly we dependedalmost entirely upon Englan dand Germany for our refined countries bought their sup-plies of ore and partly refinedtin from the Straits Settlementsand Bolivia and did the workof completing the refiniug for war interfered with gettingthe supply in this manner anda firm was organized to import th
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