The Leather and Paper Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture, advising on the care of leather shoes, says: "Shoes should be oiled or greased whenever the leather begins to get hard or dry.
The New York State Barge Canal, which will be opened to navigation between Buffalo and Albany this month, is one of the world's great engineering feats.
Material from the New York subway excavations may be utilized in the construction of artificial fishing banks a few miles off the coast of Long Island, between Rockaway Point and Far Rockaway.
The engineering problem of constructing a railway through the Hindu Kush Mountains from Turkestan to India, in the opinion of Russian engineers who have made surveys, will find a comparatively easy solution by boring a tunnel under the divide separating the headwaters of the Kundus, flowing toward the Oxus River and Turkestan, from the headwaters of the Kabul River, flowing east to join the Indus River, which drains all northwestern India.
The progress that Canada is making toward becoming the world's center for the manufacture of pulp and paper is indicated in figures recently published by the Department of Trade and Commerce of Canada.
The railroads of the United States, in spending approximately three hundred million dollars a year for locomotive fuel, are spending one quarter to one third of it "to kindle, prepare, clean, and maintain fires on grates when locomotives are standing still, drifting, or otherwise not actually at work.
Brazil, a field rich in possibilities for the cattle industry, has been a cattle country, although not a meat exporting one, since early colonial times.
"I predict that in the lives of the younger men now before me there will be seen from ocean to ocean in the United States the greatest system of highways to be found anywhere in the world," was the prediction of Senator Bankhead, chairman of the Senate committee on post-offices and post roads, when speaking recently in Atlanta, Ga.
