THE government's search for valuable food-stuffs pays. Macaroni wheat, imported from Prussia at a cost of $10,CC0 annually, yields $10,000,000. Sorghum was brought from China in 1864 at a cost of $2,000. The nation's source of income from that crop is $40,000,000 annually. THE "HE spotlessly pure marbles of the island of Paros, Greece, are mined by an English company. Many of the celebrated statues left us by the ancient world were sculptured from the marbles of the Parian mines. The green marbles of Tinos and the red of Mani are likewise controlled by foreign capital. A RECENT report of the government mated quantity of merchantable timber tresses are only about one-third as heavy and two-thirds as costly as those of the same size made of hair. They are said to be thoroughly springy, yet firm and durable, and especially sanitary, the material being comparatively non-absorbent. A pillow, for example, measuring 19 by 26 inches, weights only one pound, or one-third the weight of a feather pillow of the same size. UNDER the personal influence of the Kaiser, a company has been organized in the German capital for the purpose of making a systematic investigation of aërial navigation. The capital at the company's disposal is practically unlimited. Engineers, steel manufacturers, and naval officers comprise some of the directors. on lands in the United States owned by A TREE grows in various parts of the lumbermen is 215,000,000,000 feet. California, Oregon and Washington possess 78,000,000,000 feet of this, and the Southern States 62,000,000,000 feet. LIQUID air instead of powder, for car tridges, is the latest French novelty. These cartridges must be fired within five minutes after their preparation, however, as the liquid air evaporates rapidly. They are, therefore, of no value commercially. TREES that will grow in sandhills and without irrigation, are the latest discovery of the government Bureau of Forestry. In the course of half a century forests are expected to cover the waste regions of the West. ALONG the Florida Coast, a new in dustry has sprung up-the making of mattresses, pillows, etc., of sponge. The sponge material is cleansed of all foreign matter by a scrubbing process in large tanks of water, then run through wringers, and the drying continued by subjecting it to a cold-air blast. It is then shredded by machinery, and sterilized, and rendered odorless by chemical treatment. The sponge mat Bombay Province, India, which produces a cotton said to be greatly superior in quality to the American product. Until recently the only use made of this cotton was in the manufacture of wicks for lamps in Hindu temples and in the stuffing of beds and pillows. "The factory behind the Car" We announce a new four-cylinder, 40-45 horse-power, sevenpassenger Great Arrow Touring Car, price $5,000.00. When we say seven passenger" we mean seven comfortable seats. The two additional seats are in the tonneau, with backs and arms. They revolve so that the occupants can turn around and chat sociably with the three people in the rear. There is nothing exclusive about the idea. All good cars will probably adopt it. The appeal of the Pierce Arrow is made upon something deeper and more vital than a change in the form of the body. It is in the car itself. The 1907 Pierce car will be made in the new Pierce factory. We put it modestly when we say that this is the most complete automobile factory in the world. By "completeness" we mean not merely size, good location, shipping facilities and all those things; we mean especially a factory planned with the greatest care to produce such a car as the Pierce Great Arrow has always been and must continue to be. The argument for 1907 will be "The Factory Behind the Car." If we could, with comparatively meager factory facilities, make the Pierce Great Arrow what it has become, the American Car for Americans, then how much better can we attain our ideal with such an equipment as is furnished by the new plant, to say nothing of greater promptness in deliveries. The George N. Pierce Company Buffalo, N. Y. Members of Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers મ |