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R, A DECLARATION OF WAR.
onArTER XX.---(convd.) jus e like young eats—certain to be
ean well believe that it shuold after the biggest Tom a -going. At
put yen out, Me. Albert, and you with her age a fine lump of flesh is enough
such plans in your head. But it is so to strike any of them silly. If sha
certain that we shall trouble you? If
it were not for father, I should be for
leaviag the cemstry—it would be
wasn't moonstruck el -mid probably feel
sick at the idea, of 'rneeryiag a man
with a tool -bag on his beck."
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easier for Miss Fenella herself; but 1 "But she's not going to marry hail,
cannot leave him Ms his ailing state." hastily explainedAlbert, not v,erY
This tone of quiet assurance and pleasantly tonched at recognising his
that "we" was the, last drop in the own taunt in this more brutal garb.
duP of . Albert's wrath, Such a "It's just a passing fancy, of course,
doseent into details seemed to put a and it's the business of her relations
SOI of certainty upon a. thing which —the rational ones—to prevent her
he still persisted in treeting upon the
making a mess of her life. Trust
level of a mere bogey. me for that! I'll make it impossible,
: "You are a blackguard," he said, be.. somehow; but meanwhile -I think you
tween his closed teeth, yet Plitinly en- ! ought to know how matters stand,
-ough, while bY his sides his hands : considering your impendieg connee-
nerveuely closed. ition with the family."
' "And, you are --her hrother, eise you I "Humal
Might well happen to choke upon that Mr, Berrell, Sitting inhie' office -
word." chair, before a table piled with ledgers
The face of the elder man had fell into a broWn. study, whose' (tenth
grown dark and hard, bUt scarcely by no means beaUtified his low'-browed,
discomposed, , thick -lipped: face, .
With craned neck and starting eyes,1 'How about MtiegilvraY . uf Rock -
his hands still clenched by his sides, shiel? 4e'ss jest been making fee)s
his body taut and ready, Albert stood Of you all, I suppose. If he had Come
close before him. One movement of to the point this couldn't have hap:.
Duneans would inevitably have ' pr
pened. That would have fixed her up,
cipitated ,a PhYsicai collision, that .old; You bet"
original way Of settling quarrels, to Here, also making a virtue of necea-
Which, in moments of elementary pas- sity, Albert confessed the truth, whose
sion, even civilised and even eduCated primary result Was to Cause the man -
Man occasionally returns; But Dun- ager to hound in his chair in an almost
can, although his: eye hela that of Al- shutd-€seeek fashion.
bert in .a grip that in itself was a "What! Refused him'? Decidedly
warning, moved as little as does a big you'd better hand her over to the near -
dog -mien a little dogis steasemg into est asylum. „Preferring a (Taal:Omen
its face. His hands were in his to a landowneia-why, it's not even de,
pockets, ner did he even take the pre- cent! A fine connection, indeed, ha,
.cautiOn of withdrawing them, and ae. hal—and I 'who have been saying to
little as there Was a. preparation of Julia that Mr' Miecgitimay's influence
defence, as little Was there a Pi-evecas wenia probably be able to get Me en
ten to attack. - i a better job than this!" '
1
For the space of, a few breaths Al..,i He sat . down again, drumming tee-
bert's tense attitude perSiated then' patiently with his till& -fingers upon.
the nems of the chair and lenchne, on
ELECTRICITY FOR CROPS.
itish and French Experiments Show
Amazing Results.
So successful have been the*Englieh
experiments M increesieg crops by
electrical charges that Franee is going
into .the work with great energy and
on a tremendous scope. Le Journal,
one of the leeding Parisian news-
papers, gives the results of the first
trial of the experiment at Fcosse,
Thirteen acres without other fertiliza-
tion were fed by electric charges
emanating from twenty-one parallel
wires strung on six and one-half foot
posts across its surface, 90,000 volts
On June 18 the electrified oats were
fifty-eight hiches high, while the oats
not treated so were ouly Laity inches
in height, On June 25 the eompari-
son was sereety-three againet fifty-
= melees and on July 3, 101 against
sixty-three.
On August 17 the charges were dis-
eontinued. On Sept. 12, the oats were
thrashed with the following amazing
results. The electrified' creP measured
108.5 bushels to the hectare (two
acres), while the other crop came
only to 72.5 bushels. The straw of the
Tot•mer crop weighed almost double
that of the latter,
Food Control Corner
Stal'idard floar and, Standard Bread
For Canada.,
Announcement is made feom the Ofs
ace of the Food Controller that a date.
would soon be mimed after whieh
Qaeadian mills will. not be permitted
to use more than 265'pounds of spring
wheat or more than 275 pounds of
winter wheat to produce 190 pounds of
flour. This will give etandard grades
of seeing wheat and winter wheat
Articles Wanted for Cash
Old J'ewellery Plate: Silver Curies;
s.tttree o Pio ture o Needle work: Law
OA Cns; hiOut Glati or Ornaments; '
Via:tones Rings: Table W`are.
Write or loend by Eltnrees to
3. gg, allargINS, Linettea
A NT bl G AIL
, E RI FIS
28 and 30 Ocille2.0 Street, Toronto, Ont.
THE SAFE W
Percentage of Killed is Far Less 'Than
In Battles of Old.
,Despite the nUMber of deaths in
modern battle -s, the percentage of kill
e-
d'is far less than in the battles of old
Pour :for all ,Canada Med no mill will . . "
he allowed to inatufactere .flour Of a re the 1917 spring drive.of the French
Prunes are one of the best fruits to
were shot through these wires, etriks serve on wheatless days, since they lower extraction than the,standard. By army 15,000 men were killed out of
terrupters between Which they flash Dided apricots, prunes of Other (need i wheat berry for humeri consuiription pare this figure (one of the blOodiest
approximately 200,000 engaged. Corn-
ing at frequent intervals ball-lilee in- supply iron„, as doeadwhele . wheat, making available.a larger part of the
aled sparkle across sixteen inch spaces. fruit if soaked for twenty-four hours! end by stopping the manufacture of on the allies' side) with sorne statias
tics fir.om ancient and medieval battles.
This electric current stimulates the instead of overnight • p- t t fl • •
seem to require , 4 en , our, a considerable saving of
growth of the seed, less. sugar for sweetening, $,,uh.ase is wheat fer exedport to the Allied nationa AtIcannie 40,000 Romans . out o:C•
The oats, sown on the 27th of March$0,000 were killed; at Hastings the
, souse and expensive. will be effea, Moreover a nniform
came up on April 18 and the current Feed to produce one dozen eggs Normans, though the victors, lost 10, -
was fed it thenceforth. From tiles costs 10e. -with pullets, 14c. with two -
16th of May on a noticeable difference yearsold -hens and .19e. with three -
in the growth of the oats in this 'field ; year-old ,hens in a three-year feeding
and others not treated by electricity , test recently' repertea by the United
could be noted,. States Department' of Agriculture.
i
extraction will be established which
,play be increased if considered
advis-
able,
The Food Controller is alsON, Making
arrangements for a standard leaf of
bread from the standard hoer. He
has written to miller, whelesale EOM'
dealers, wholesale groeers, retail flour
dealer s and retail grocers, emphaela-
.
mg the necessity oi discouraging
fifth of the troops present on both
hoarding of flonr. It is pointed out
-
that the new regulations will not less sides. The heaviest loss was at Zorn -
sen the quantity 'available for dorff, where 32,916 out of 82,000 were
surnption in thDominion. .. cons
killed or wounded.: It was also vere
e • •
than the usual quantities al flour to 160,000 men,
heavy ,at Eylau, being 55,000 out of
Millers are asked not to sell more
In the .campaign in Italy in 1859
000 out of 60,000, and at Crcssy 12,-
000 Frenchmen out of 100,000, svere, it
is asserted, killed, without reckoning
the wounded'.
When the flintlock reigned the av-
erage proportion of killed and woungd-
ed in ten battles, beginning with
Zorndorff in 1758 and ending with
Waterloo, was from one-fourtheto one
. ,q bakers and wholesale dealers and tc 'mos were used on both sides, and
hea;ily with regular grades of flour
D
your birthday?"
you want for !disturbing sounds as well.
lis carefull f
allow retail dealers th stook heavib tants was at Magenta ancl Solferl-
I tention as she passed through it. Down than one week's flour to families; e.x l'russian war, when both sides were
rmed with breech -loading rifles, the
advise their custonot tost°e1
ieerfully be
inera
HAT'S. WRONG IN THE,,rOME? , he proportion of 'casualties to com-
gan the ear so she toned y or
"Well, Mother," el
Benton, "what d
"Nothing at all!" 11
defiantly. -
Wholesale dealers_ are asked n,ot tc a.one-eleventh. In the Franco -
!tether answerad-; door in the dining -room caught her at-
veiage proportion
of killed arid
tail dealers Ale asked not to .sell mut
I A squeaky hinge of the swing ng N,c;lth reg.tilar mees of flour afid re.
a
"Why, Mother!" faltered Ruth. , went a memorandum. The wind ws
icept n cases -where -is impossible for
"What's the matter? You're not sick
, blowing and the offendrng windosv, In the customer to secure suppliee tveek- le -Tour, aravelotte and pedan was
are you ri the same roomy, e so ieq estecl not to one -ninth, the heaviest loss being at
began its rat -tat -tat. Mille -s ar
Mare-le-Toura, where it was one'--sixtli,
voimded at Worth, Spicheren; Mars -
"Neve mind, you're doomed," proms- require dealers to take certain
"Yes," she answered "sick of hay- • . . and the smallesteat Sedan where it
mg. new things come into the house! • • •
. o as , quantities of flour when purchasing
gradually relaxed, and with the re- -
• when all the time it is the old things dining -room window rattles." other products of the mill."
laxation came a rush of smarting half an ear to A soothing s
Albert's ee- t The bathroom door stuck at the bot- Mr. Hanna states that it should be
that should have attention.- I tell
shame. The boy's impotent fury fert surances. -^
Itseif silently rebuked 'hy the Man's "How de you mean to :prevent it ?" you, these little annoyances .are get -
mature self-mastery. he ungraciously inquired. tmg on my nerves and I can't enjoy my
To end the interview- with as littlel "First by gaining time. His father home at rill for worrying about all the
further loss of dignity aswas possible is against it, mercifully, and he is ill; things that need attention. The kit-
eeemed all that remained. ; that will delay things anyway through ellen • •
"Oh, it is no use talking- while you the winter; and during the winter it's
a -se in this pig-headed mood," sue de_ ten to one Fenella will beeorne ration -
dared, gathering together the frag-
ments of his initial haughtiness. ‘‘But' "And if she doesn't?"
you will think better cf it, and so will' "Then something else may happen,
Fenella; I will make her think better's-will happen, in fact. I don't know
of it. And, in any ease this pre_ I what, but it's just; got to."
posterous thing shall not happen, "I know what would happen. if she "No wonder you. are nervous," corn -
What arn 1 here for 1 should like t
Ic.now ?" , ou se 0 was my daughter.," and Mr. BFrell forted Father. "They are startling.
disclosed his large teeth suggestively.
I
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window rattles until it nearly 'drives
me distracted. The window -blind in
my bedroom. refuses to go up more
than half way and the bottom board
on the stairway creaks loud enough to
wake anyone from a sound sleep."
never thought of them collectively
t .
And without waiting for a retort 'Bread and evater and so ary c n -
lit o
which was not corningbefore. Make out a list of the little
finement until she came to her senses Albert hong
e,
away down the lane, his brain seeth- Not without a touch of regret Al-
things all over the house which need
ing with wild plans of action his bert pronounced the arrangement un- attention and the children and I will
give you a shower of tanmiyance 're -
easi e.
"How about buying him off ?" sug- movers' for your birthday. How's
g•ested the manager, after another that?"
gloomy pause. "A hundred pounds begin at once!' exclaimed' Mrs.
vanity smarting under -the conscious-
ness that the advantage of the inter-
view had not been on his side.
CHAPTER X,X.I. goes a long way with a man who earns
thirty shilling's a week. And I Benton, determinede op -
to grasp th
Upon its death -bed of withering., shouldn't mind going halves if it rids Portunity. "I never fell that we can
heather and yellowing bracken, the.' us of him." afford to have an expert come out here
Ardloch summer lay beautifully dy- Albert shook his head, with in- and attend to these little things and
ing; and from that very bed, as from creased *decision. To Duncan's in- you never have time." ...
a bed of birth, autumn rose up, with terlocutor of the other day Mr. Ber- "III thke a day from the plthvine•
' ' "
in. her face a sadder, milder, more in- Tell's proposal seemed almost humor- promised her husband. • ''
sinuating because more suggestive ons• Mrs. Benton
toi
n mmediately started on
beauty. "Ale high and mighty, is he? That's
For Fenella this season of passage the worst sort to deal with. Yes, I a tour of the house, trying to view it
was a passage in more senses than might have known it—had a taste of through the critical eyes of astranger.
one. These stormy autumn weeks held him in spring. A regular pig -head- The eges can usually endure more than
for hexboth a new bliss and a, new
torture. She had been too used to
cherishing—even though caltulating
—care, to petting and approval, to he
able to bear disapproval lightly So
ed, cantankerous fellow; and always
just he crossing my path."
"And mine as well," laughed Al-
beit bitterly. "We're in the same
tom and the window had to be prop- distinctly understood that "millers,
ped p use e lope wholesalers and retailers who do not
iron weight had broken. One hinge accede to these requests be
was missing from the kitchca cup- promptly dealt with and the ship-
board door and the spring on the back ment of flow by or to thesa persons
screen was weals so that the door will be prohibited."
could net shut quickly enough to keep The letter adds that a date will be
flies out. The offending board on set after which bekers will be required
the stairway and a board on the back to sell their bread based on the price
steps which needed additional nails of the standard flour. Therefore,
were noted. bakers who purchase large Stocks of
Et" The kitchen stool had a habit of los- patent flour may find themselves in an.
mg one leg at unexpected times. The unfortunate position when the Order
iron grate in the kitchen range had to ' is issued for the production of bread
be handled carefully lest it fall into from standard flour:
The standard flour will be of high
the ash pan.
At last the list was complete. quality and will be quite as palatable
Though much longer than she had ex -1 as the patents and even more con-
pected, Mrs. Benton viewed it with ducive to health. Samples of the
satisfaction. What a joy it was to t standard spring and winter wheat
know that all these petty annoyances` flours will be furnished and all mills
were to be wiped out in one day! _ I will be required to produce a quality
What is wrong in your home? If of flour which will not be superior in
the items were counted, the sum total' color to the standard samples. Every
would dotibtless astonish you. Induce; mill must furnish to the Food Con -
the handy man of the house to set at troller's Office every two Iveeks a
certain time to attend to all these; statement showing the quantity of
little repairs; or be your own "handy wheat ground and the weight of flour
man." You will be surprised and dei produced therefrom. Failure on the
lighted to see how much can be ac- part of any of the mills to comply
complished by determiea.tion plus glue, with the Food Controller' S regulations
nails, string and a few simple tools. may result in cancellation of license.
Try it.
WAR MENUS TO SAVE W
Breakfast. -- Buckwheat griddle
cakes, syrup, toast, tea or coffee.
boat, so far as that goes; but sure -
much coldness after so much warmth ly we'd need to be idiots not to find a Dinner.—Boston roast, corn bread,
could not but chill her to the heart. way out of it!" I apple sauce, tea.
How much greater would have been "-Well, find a way out of it! It's. Suppe.—Potato, soup, oatmeal Mtif -
her happiness had she been. able to your business to do so, since it's youl fins, apple sauce, tea.
share it with those nearest her! , imprudence that is to blame." The recipe for Boston Roast, men
Without her father's support, there Through the words there rang a cers tioned above,' is as follows:—
were moments when Fenella's courage tain note of warning, appredated by Boston Roast. -2 cups dry kidney
might have tottered. And even his i Albert at its full valise.
beans, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 cups
support was but a pasaive one. ! Left to himself, the black -haired e
These weeks of betrothal, full of manager remained scowling into space, grated cheese, 3 teaspoons salts, ae cup
secret happiness, werei nevertheless', which was his fashion of being de- liquid, 1 tablespoon chopped onion.
empty of what is usuallY understood pressed. It really would be an awful Soak beans 24 hours. Cook in salt -
as joy. This was as Fenella bad bore to have to break off his engage- ed water until. soft. Drain, put
known it must be. Even when, in rnent, but it would be, a still greater through food chopper, add onion,
the Pass, she had felt Duncan's hands bore to have Duncan MTionnell for a cheese. crumbs, more salt if needed
upon her own,and had raised her brother-in-law. Rather than that he enough of the water in which beans
face to meet his, it had been with an would let Julia go. At this point
overflowing, but not with a light of his meditations 1111-. Berrell noisily were cooked (about 1,e cup to moist -
heart. She had sinned against a social expelled the air from his puffed en). Form into loaf, bake in moderate
maw, and must pay the penalty. The cheeks,—his fashion of sighing.. For, even for '40,,.minutes. Baste ()e-
very scene of their bethrothals-stern though practical considerations had casionally with hot water and fat.
and hard-featured—seemed to warn been the chief motor of his action,
the young people or that which lay be- they had not been the only ones. It Breakfast.—Oatmeal porridge, bak-
fore them: no pleasant dalliance, but was hia reason which had pointed cut ed apples, brown bread toast, tea or
a caste. Yet, for all the voice of rea- down," burit was his taste which had Dinner.—Fish pie, mashed potatoes,
bitter struggle with the prejudice of to him the advisability of "settling coffee,
son it remained hard to be treated as selected Julia, whose large and some -
a traitor to a common cause. what "loud" personality had for him e f I war
boiled catrots' cup pudding.
From the outer public the situation that peculiar attraction which bright upper. ream nt ee e y
still remained screened the engage- colors and big patterns have for
• eer_ bread, cottage checse, tea biscuits,
ment being so far unpublished—the tain primitive minds. In his opiniOn syrup, tea. 1
one concession wrung by Albert from ,she quite outshone her sister, if only The reeipes for Fish Pie and Cup
hie father. So long as it was not an- for the reason that there was more of
flounced it remained possible to con-, her. To renounce her would
sider it as non-existent; which meant tenably cost a pang; the mere
.a gain of time for further measures, thought of it quickened his spite
The absence of the Attertons on a` against the cause of that possible re -
round of visits struck Albert as a nunciation, Sympathy here ,joined.
providentlei areangeraent, since even hands with antipathy; for despite the
well -guarded secrets have a way of suit withdrawn, Duncan's peesump-
leaking out. Lion of the spring. still rankled, and
To Mr. Berrell, however, it had been always would; and this offence was
necesaary to speak, precisely Inc fear blacker than the Kest. Ala 'but he
of this leaking process. True, in the should be made to :feel it, just as he
statement which Albert, in some tre- had been made to feel it in summer,
pidationt personally made to his future There were ways and means enough,
heather -in-law the feet did not figure the heavens be praiaedi
as a feet, but rather as a danger to (To be continued.)
be averted, Even in thie modified
shape fiance took it badly, ,
"That fellow? The troublesomie
Shown Up-
workinan ?" he repeated, in a tone or Igncitallee> says Dr. John Griei,'
Ilib-
si-rogant aetonishment, "Has yone ben, is quick to betray itself, A young
sister goee off her head? How did woman met a young man in a library,
and in the eourse 01 their cohversas
tion the Man remiarked that he was a
great reader.
"1 sin reading Shakespeara pow,'
eadd the' girl. '"Did you ever eead
Romeo and Juliet?"
"I've read Romeo," said the young
man.
Prene puddiega or whips nuike
cheap and wholesome deseerte
she get acquainted with him?"
Seinevvliat shamefacedly Albeit ex-
plained about, the sick-eails.
, "Deucedly imprudent of you to al-
low such a thing! Young girls are
One hundred and sixty-seven Caned-
. ian flour mills are already under
IIEA.T„BEEF AND BACON. license from the Food Controller's Of -
Pea Soup.—COver a shin- biene esdth flee. All the remaining mills will he .
cold Water, and bring to a boil. Boil similarly licensed. The profits of the
licensed rnills have been limited to a
gently for the whole of two hours.
maximum average ef twenty-five cents I
Then add one, cup of peas brose, pep-,
'
per and salt to taste, and a very little on the milling of enough wheat to
grated onion. Boil for half an hour make a barrel of -flour (196 lbs.).
longer strain and serve.
Emergency Biscuits —1. hit
flour, 1 cup graham flour, Ye teaspoon
salt, 2 tablespoons butter ssthstitute,
5'teaspoons baking powder. Milk to
moisten into a dough a little too soft
to roll. Drop by spoonfuls onto a
greased pan, and bake in a hot oven.
Breakfast. — Buckwheat griddle
cakes, syrup, corn bread, coffee.
Dinner.—Baked beans, brown bread,
baked potato.
Supper.—Scalloped tomato, bread,
stewed -prunes, tea.
The recipes Inc Baked Beans, Brown
Breici and Barley Bread, mentioned
abeve, are as follows:—
Brown Bread. -2 cups graham flour,
1 cup white flour, i,. cup molasses,
134 cups sweet milk, teaspoons
soda, 11/4 teaspoons salt. Sift the
floui!, salt and soda. Add the mo-
lasses and the milk. Pour into well
greased moulds and steam about three
Pudding, mentioned above, are as fol.- 'mule. , •
loess:— Barley Bread, -4 2-3 cups wheat
Fish Pie. -2 cups Slaked fish, 1 cup
flour, 2 1-3 cuPS barley flour, 2 cups
I
seasoned white sauce. Mix the flaked milk and water, or water, 1 cake coin -
fish 'With the -white sauce, put into a pressed yeaSt, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2
greased baker, dover the top with
tablespoons fat, 2 teaspoons salt. Soft -
buttered bread crumbs, and cook in the en the Yeast in Part of the liquid,
oven until the crumbs are brown,
Cup Pudding.—Put into each greas-
ed clip latablespoon ofjarn, Cover to
one-half the cup with a batter made
as follows: -2 tablespoons of butter,
cup of sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup milk,
21/2 cups' flour, 4 teaspoons baking
powder. Cream the butter, add sugar
gradually, and egg well beaten; mix
and sift flour, baking powder, and
salt; and alternately with milk to first
mixture, After.' turning into elltzs,
put in the oven and bake,
Breakfast, --- Cornmeal porridge,
toaat, pear jam, tea er coffee,
Diener,—Pried haddock, mashedepo-
tatoes, creamed onions', emergency bis-
cuits, 'honey. "
Supper.—Pea soup, haked potatoes,
brown bread, 'rhubarb jam, tea,
The recipes Tor Pea Seep and
hniergeney Bleat; its, in above,
areeee fallow
Combine all the ingredients, hnd mix
into a dough. Knead and let rise to
double its bulk. Knead again. Put
into the pan'and when double its bulk
bake about 84 of an hour. This re-
cipe makes two loaves. ,
Baked Beans.—Pick over the beans,
cover with cold water and soak over
night, In morning, drain, cover with
fresh Water, heat slowly (keeping
water below boiling -point), and cook
until skins burst. Drain beans, throw-
ing ont the water. Put into a bean
pot a few pieces of salt pork cut into
cubes. Cover with the beans, and add
1 tablespoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of
mdlasses, 3 ta,blespoons of sugar, Foe
every quart of dry beam used, add 1
cep of boiling water, and as they cook
add more boiling water to cover.
Cover the bean pot, Put it in the oven
and hake elowly six gr eight how's, or
ceek in a fireless coolser. Sone pre-
£eti*. be add a little mustited.
THE RATE OF TREE GROWTH.
was ons -twelfth.
WOUND STATISTICS.
Showing the Percentage of Mortal in-
juries on Battlefields.
Statistics of men wounded in trench
warfare have just been published Inc
the period between January; 1916, and
June, 1916. Seven and eighty-seven
hundredths per cent. of wounded men
die on the battlefield. Ten aral six-
teenshundredths per' cent. die- later
from their injuries or 18.03 succumb;
a probortion Inc less than the 25 per
cent. estimated mortality which sur-
geons drew up when the war began.
Artillery causes 54.74 per cent. of
woUnds, rifles and revolvers 39.16 per
cent., bayonets 0.59 and gas 5.01.
Bombs, 'which have supplanted bay-
onet work so largely, are classed with
for wounds in the head
and neck are 21.92, Inc the trunk they
are 21.63, while wounds in the extrem-
ities stand at 56.4 per cent.
Twenty-three and sixty-two hun-
dredths per cent, of the wounds are
classed as seri-ohs, 63.01 as medium
and 13.07 as so slight that the victims
can return to the lines immediately.
Keep sharp grit, charCeal and green
feed before the hen always.
aw, Furs E 44.'311i:tit 1. 11 e es
And Ginseng'
Paid
N. SILVER
220 St. Pant St. W., rdentreal. B.G.
20 years of reliable trading
nes-crones—Union Bk. of Canada ,
How Fast Does a Forest Rebuild 1 ee 4
Itself?
QW there 13 jUst one
em
The rate of growth of trees in the WALKER HOUSE
In ONE TOWN where I
forest is usually exaggerated, greatly. , stay, ett
Dr. C. D. Howe, who during the past v Arid, say, you o'ught to 5
summer made a study of the reproduce A see me grin
When my trip heads
tion and growth of the pulpwood spe-
cies after logging, in the St. Itlaurice
Valley, Quebec, on behalf of the Com-
mission of Conservation, produced the
following conclusions:
Over 2,000 trees were analyzed to
determine their rate ofgrowth in
diameter, height and volurae. While
the results of this study have not yet
been tabulated, they leave ,gone far
enough to justify the statement that
within the forest type under consider-
ation, it takes about 40 yearssfor the
little spruce trees to acquire a dia-
meter of one inch; 100 years to make
a six-inch tree, and 150 years to reach
the minimum diameter limit of 12
inches established by the cutting reg-
ulations in Quebec, for -White and
black spruce, Balsam grows some-
what faster, A one -inch tree is made
bi about, 16 years, and it takes in the
neighborhood of 70 years to reach the
Quebec diainetee limit of seven inches
at two feet from the ground.
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