Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers . the earth. When a big gusher is struck, it sometimes spurts out a thousand barrels of oila day, and you may be sure that no one is allowed to be careless with matches on the oil fields,for if a gusher or an oil tank gets afire, it is almost impossible to stop it, and immense damage is done. The oil is piped from the oil fields or taken in huge tanks to some city to be made into kero-sene, gasoline, benzine, and scores of other useful articles. Nothing is wasted, for from the left-overs, perfumes, chewing-gum, and lots of other surprising things
Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers . the earth. When a big gusher is struck, it sometimes spurts out a thousand barrels of oila day, and you may be sure that no one is allowed to be careless with matches on the oil fields,for if a gusher or an oil tank gets afire, it is almost impossible to stop it, and immense damage is done. The oil is piped from the oil fields or taken in huge tanks to some city to be made into kero-sene, gasoline, benzine, and scores of other useful articles. Nothing is wasted, for from the left-overs, perfumes, chewing-gum, and lots of other surprising things are made. These are calledby-products. On some of the railroads oil is used instead of coal in the engines, and oil is also used in largequantities to keep the roadbed hard and free from dust. In many parts of the country thereare fine oiled auto pikes. All of these things take a lot of petroleum, and it is a lucky thing forAmerica that she is the oiliest country in the world. ^-*1 THE TOBACC0 INDUSTRY ^~^WtC^~/ IN KENTUCKY 6. TENNER J^ccd Head. Framerfor Hauling Tobacco Among all the sights that Columbus and his men saw in the new world, nothing amazedthem more than to see the Indians eating fire and breathing smoke from the nostrils, butevidently the explorers were not very much afraid to learn the trick from the Indians. Whenthey went back to Spain they took a lot of tobacco with them, and the Spanish men and womensoon had the smoking habit. It was Sir Walter Raleigh who started the fashion in the court ofQueen Elizabeth in England. It seems as though he might have found something more useful todo. The custom grew and spread all over the world. It is lucky for us that the early explorersdid not get the scalping habit along with the tobacco habit or by this time we Americans would bea scalpless race! The settlers learned from the Indians how to grow the tobacco and before long the greatplantations of Maryland and Virginia were bringing a lot of wealth to the colonists, and pe
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