. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Skptembku 21, 1922 The Florists^ Review 29 rength of tlie plants. This was tlioir iial shift. The soil usi'tl was composed ' equal jiarts of jjood loam and ])eat, ith a free mixture of saud and a littl(> (1 mortar broken uj) line, of wiiich they •o fond. This jdaut needs j)leuty of ^at and light to grow w(dl. Wiien Iho iwers begin to show, the ])lants arc ven liquid manui'e two oi' three times week. II. .1. Coifield. TOO MANY COAL MINES. In an address favoring the estaldisli- ent of a national coal commission by le federal government an(l enumer
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Skptembku 21, 1922 The Florists^ Review 29 rength of tlie plants. This was tlioir iial shift. The soil usi'tl was composed ' equal jiarts of jjood loam and ])eat, ith a free mixture of saud and a littl(> (1 mortar broken uj) line, of wiiich they •o fond. This jdaut needs j)leuty of ^at and light to grow w(dl. Wiien Iho iwers begin to show, the ])lants arc ven liquid manui'e two oi' three times week. II. .1. Coifield. TOO MANY COAL MINES. In an address favoring the estaldisli- ent of a national coal commission by le federal government an(l enumerat- ig the problems such a body would ive to solve. Secretary of Commerce oover last week gave ligures that lowed how nnicli overex[)anded our lal industry is. lie said: "There are 8,000 bituminous mines, ith an annual caj)acity of S.' )ns, ;50(i,(iOO.(iOO capacity lieyond our itional needs. The overca])acity in the idustry results not in the j)ermanent osing of some mines, but in the opera- on of all of them more or less iiiter- ittently. Tims the working jx'rsonnel held attachiMl to each mine in daily • pes of employment. In tlie best year their history the bituminous mines lerated an average of only L'49 days I the ye.'ir. nut of a jiossible ;;0S, where i ill most yiars the ;iver:ige is about [0, as against about wit.'i days in Kng- nd and o\cr :!0(i days in (iennany. If e subtract the mines whicli are o]ierat- g regularly for certain metallurgical id rail\v;!y supjdies, we liiid that the t nation i-; iveii worse, for the re- ainder nf the bit uiuinoiis mines are ?obabl\- uperat iiii; an aNciage of less laii ISn day>. m Idsin^ ii\cr I L'O d;iys ' me out of the year. "There arc l',.')IpO too many bitumiii- is mines and 200,000 too many jieoplc the bii>iiirss. This waste of labor, of jiital .iml nt coal levies tremendous ibute nil tlie entire count ly. Invest eiit in the iihlu-tiN- is extremely specii- tive. |)is| ijhnt ion are excessive, l
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