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Between Cousins'
OR, A DE CLA'RATiOI'' OP WAR,
CHAPTER VI,—(Cont'd), "Anything in that line is my line,
Juat send "If it was not from the huge profit T;l entle him all right."him to me, and „My term of office is for the dura -
the intend to
draw
from
texplainingt icon her "That's good", said Mabel, looking do of •c1 Kitchener,
thor for, three years.
• "—
the
yI should never is our waited athim arftalk itdoeut hinitheom rn g, L "We are in 'for victory, which must,
tea for you, Pour -thirty isa' hour, and- in the afternoon, as a reward, you be won together."—Choate; you know, because of mamma's tea -at me',row me over to the Burial Island. "The future' of mankind is ours to
pains which makeche veryon Punctually to I'm just expiring to get to closer L
four, and her difficult to j g maintain and dofend"=- loyd„Ceorge,
deal with, Believe me or not when quarters with that ruined chapel." "If we fail, all fait; if we break, all
I tell you that to come between a Here signs of animation became ob- break; our dangers are great, but our
lioness and her cubs, would be mere servable in Lady Atterton• opportunity is incomparable"—Win
chiltys play compared to interposing "Yes, Mabel, that is a very good opp opportunity
Til.
yourself between mamma and her idea; almost the first sensible thing' "We must fight and conquer:' -
four -thirty tea. Judge, then, what you have said to -day. If the water
hopes I build upon you for having is smooth enough I shall be of the Bethmann-Hollweg. question in our
dared that wait of an hour!" •of duty, I am not going to do, and "The 'burning q
arty. I am told the island con- hearts, however, is how much longer
Lady Atterton shook her stately P
head in a stately fashion. tains the grave -stone of a Scotchman the war is to last."—Michaelis.
"My dear Mabel, what extraordin- who fought in the battle of Preston- "The desire of our enemies to an-
ary exaggeration! What will your pans, under George the Second, you nihilate us has not yet been broken."
know, Mabel, in the year seventeen —Count von Weytarp.
cousin think of youus hundred and—" "We "You don't seriously suppose that "No; I know nothingat all," said 'R a stand unbroken, far in the en-
thF question uncle a heriaes thick
minds" Mabel, who delighted in tiffenig her-emy's land, and in the defence we are
glance From uprov her tnick ylweet a self against the too ample information invincible,"—Herr Scheidemann.
wrdof provocative
dui ng theewhole exhaled by her mother. From long "We Will make Ehglish-speaking
of her address had been placidly stow- practice she had developed a habit of nations one."—Lord Northcliffe.
ing away bread and butter, He an- excluding either direct or indirect in- "We shall prove that we are ready
swered the look with one which was struction almost as automatically as to fight and capable of achieving vie -
very open and friendly, but with no- the valves of a submarine boat close tory."—Herr Fehrenbach,
thing excited or exciting in its quality. at the contact with water. "I never ,,For God's sake, hurry up." --
The person who had answered the ap- could remember a date nn my life, you Ribot.
peal of the letter was a large, fair- lrnow, and I don't believe I ever heard "We must make the world safe for
haired young man of stout twenty- of the battle of Prestonpans."
six, with no 'particular features to "My dear Mabel, what will your democracy.'—President Wilson.
speak of, but with that share of chief- cousin—"
ly animal good looks which are in- "Ronald knows less about it than I- An Indian turban of the largest
separable from health, youth, size, a if possible," calmly assured Mabel;' size contains from ten to twenty yards
perpetual use of hot water, and an and the blank look on Ronald's face of the finest and softest muslin.
expression which was at last nega-
tively agreeable, inasmuch as, though
perhaps a trifle somnolent, it was
neither morose, fatuous, nor ill-
natured. There was the merest sug-
gestion of superfluous flesh upon his
big, well -set-up frame, and occasion-
ally malicious people might feel tempt-
ed to run a pin into it somewhere, just
in order to see a less contented ex-
pression upon the fair, boyish face,
and to ascertain whether the sleepy
blue 'eyes could ever fairly wake up;
yet, such as he was, he did no die- DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT DOME
honor to a nation which prides itself
on producing a. greater proportion of
well -
seemed to confirm her estimate of his
historical knowledge.
**
When, a couple of bears later, the
cousins met again in the same room
respectively attired in black cloth and
M pink actin, the gaze with which
Mabel trimmed her guest was plain-
ly one of disapproval,
, (To be continued.)
What Men Have Said of the War.
Ninth Lesson—The Process of Digestion
A BATTLE OF
100 .AEROPLANES
TURNING THE HEAVENS INTO A
VERITABLE HELL.
Hairbreadth . Escapes in the Aerial
Service Are Matters of Every -
ley Occurrence.
An officer of the Royal Canadian
Flying Corps tells the fellowing
story:
There were one hundred of us--
fifty en a side—but we turned the
heavens into a hell, up in the air
there, more terrible than ten thousand
devils could have made running ram-
pant in the pit.
The sky blazed and crackled with
bursting time bombs, and the machine
guns spitted' out their steel venom,
while underneath us hung what seem-
ed like a net of fire, where shells from
the Arehies, vainly trying to reach
us, were bursting. •
We bad gone out early in the morn-
ing, fifty of us, from the Royal Can-
adian Flying Corps barracks, back of
the lines, when the sun was low and
my courage lower, to bomb the Prus-
sian trenches before the infantry
should attack.
Our machines were stretched out
across a . fiat tableland. Here and
there in little groups the pilots was;
receiving instructions from their com-
mander and consulting main and pho-
tographs.
At last we all climbed into our ma-
chines. All along the line engines be-
gan to roar and sputter. Here was
a 300 h.p. Rolls-Royce, with a mighty,
throbbing voice;. over there a 510,000
Laron rotary engine vying with the
others in making a noise. Then there
were the little fellows, humming and
spitting, the "vipers" or "maggots,"
as they are known in the service.
At last the squadron commander
took his plaee in his machine and rose
with a whirr. The rest of us rose and
circled round, getting our formation.
Over No, Man's Land.
Crack! At the signal from the com
any othern specimens of mashood than The growth of the human body is I When starchy foods are chewed mender's pistol we darted forward,
"Pm m sorry you waited," was all he likened to that of a tree. In order !well, the starches have been partly going ever higher and higher, while
now said, with a solid regret which that we may know just what foods are! adted upon by the saliva in the mouth, the cheers of. the mechanicians and
however seemed powerless to affect necessary for us we will begin a study i and then when they -are transformed riggers grew fainter.
his appetite.
of digestion. Tinto the glucose state, the action is Across our own trenches we sailed
As once more he stretched his hand Chewing or mastication of food is! continued by acid fluids in the stom- and out over No Man's Land, like a
towards the dish o. bread and butter the first act in the process of diges-'ach. 1 huge, eyeless, pock -scarred earth face
there was a shriek fromyMabel. tion; fcr this operation one should The remainder of the,.food is con- staring up at us. •
"Traitor!HoAnd on your own nativead have good teeth. t If the teeth are de- verted into a thick fluid consisting of There was another signal from the
soil! How dare you eat bread and ca ed orgone the food will. not be solids and undigested particles, sus-) commander. Down we swooped. The•
butter from a dish flanked by oat y g
cakes on one side and scones on the thoroughly chewed; if this i. the case, ponied in a yellowish liquid 'called bomb racks rattled as hundreds of
other! Need I tell you that a then a large portion of saliva which chyme. This is the food now preLlar-
Scotch cook was the first article 1 the mouth secretes will he lost. The, ed by the saliva and stomach ferments
procured? The bread and butter adult with- good teeth will secrete for further digestion in the intestinal.
wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't as about one quart of saliva .. day. canal.
a concession to mamma. And, by- The purpose of the saliva is two- In the intestines this liquid food be-
the-by—
She first, it lubricates and softens the comes mixed with the bile, pancreatic tiled the trenches and sprayed bullets
She put down the tea-pot—at which food an that it may easily be swallow- fluid and the ferments from the vagi -j from our machine guns... The crash-
act the Queen -Mother breathed a sighofed, Second, the saliva brings about a ous intestinal glands. Each of these hrg of the +weapon`s drowned:the"roa`r
n relief—and al stared s:at him with chemical chane in the starch contain- fluids has a art to perform. The
mock -tragical seviousness: P of the engines. ,
"What on earth do you mean by ed in the food, which, when thoroughly bile emulcifies the fats and prevents I saw ahead of me a column of
daring to present yourself without a chewed or broken up, is transformed decomposition. The pancreatic fluids flame shoot up from one of our' ma -
kilt?" into a convert sugar called glucose. complete the digestion of fats.
bombs were let loose, and a second la-
ter came the crackle of their explo-
sions over the heads of the Boches in
their trenches. •
Lower and lower we flew. We skim
"A how -much?" asked Ronald, his The food is then swallowed, and, on
hand arrested in mid-air from the entering the stomach, this process
sheer shock of the astonishment. continues from twenty to thirty min -
"A kilt the Celtic garb. Is that utes. If the food is careless.y chew -
clear enough?" ed • or hastily swallowed, this action
"Great Scot! But I don't possess ceates as soon as the food reaches the
such a thing!"
"Do you mean to tell me"—the stomach. Starchy indigestion is the
sternness in Mabel's tone was increas- result.
ing-"that you call yourself a High-
land gentleman, and that your ward-
robedoesn't contain a kilt?"
Food Adjuncts
The intestinal fluids finish the pro-
cess of digestion for the albumens- and
sugars.
Digestion is a complex process, where
any interference from wrong or im-
properly cooked foods, combined with
careless mastication, is very liable to
produce serious results.
"I don't call myself anything, but Food adjuncts cannot be termed catsuppick mg, owingto the action
the last kilt I wore was got on my foods because they do not furnish or P
sixth birthday. It's only a gillie nutrition, but rather act as a stimulant of the acid in the vinegar.
here andthere that sports one, and to the digestive organs and thus be Cucumber Catsup.—Six cucumbers,
even that's giving out, What the
blazes should I do with a kilt, if I had
one?"
"What would you do with it? Wear
it, of course, and pay your mite to-
wards the preservation of the custom Beverages.—The primary service of a porcelain preserving kettle.Add
of your country." beverages is to quench the thirst, one pint of good cider vinegar and
"I don't see what good I'm doing my Thirst is nature's call for water. we_then boil for thirty minutes. Rubn
country by malting a guy of myself." ter constitutes the fifth class of food through a fine sieve and then add:o
Mabel sketched another shriek, and rmci les. It does not roduce heat tablespoonful of cayenne pepper, one
sinking against the chair -back, went and isL herefore incombustible, but be, spoonfpule nful of .mustard, one L•ea-
through a show of feeling momentary- cause it has a great many uses in the apoonfof allspice; one teaspoonful
ly faint, of cinnamon. Boil gently- for ten.
"Good gracious! Is this what body it is an absolute necessity Wa- minutes then fill into sterilized bot -
Scotch patriotism has come Sol Oh, ter is the best known of all solvents. ties anri cork. Seal by dipping in
you degenerate scion of kilted ancest- It acts as a carrier to all parts of the parowax. Store in a cool, dry place.
ors. You'll have to if
out very body and assists in regulating the Sweet Pickles. -Peaches, pears and
strong in other ways rf I am to for- temperature of the body. plums may be used. Peel' and remove
give you this. If these are your Coffee is the berry or seed of a all the blemishes and then cut into
principles, then I suppose you don't, tropical tree that bears fruit similar small picees. To three „pounds of
speak Gaelic either?' „!to our common cherry. It acts as a mixed and prepared fruit, weighed
Don't know a mortal word of it. after cutting,add: three cupfuls of
"This +atimulant'to the nerves, 'relieves fat1- p
is becoming serious. But you, brown sir ar two cupfuls of best cider
't help k S tt' ' giro The flavor is extracted from g i p
watery catsup, etc. Do not use alum-
inum, copper r tinwar3. in making
cone an aid to the digestion of true
food.
Food adjuncts are classified as bev-
erages and condiments.
four large onions, one cupful of salt.
Peel the onions and cucumbers and
then cut in thin slices. Cover with
salt and then stand aside for twenty-
four hours. Chop fine and place in
can e p nowmg some co rctsms.' vinegar, one cupful of seeded raisins.
I've learnt to say 'feckless' and the berry after it has been roasted g
'frugal,' and I've mastered the differ-'. and ground; then it is boiled, percolat- Bring to a boil and then stand aside
ence between a 'bairn' and a 'burn,' ed or steamed as in drip coffee. for twenty-four hours. Repeat this
but I'm thirsting to enlarge my vocal Tea is valued for its theine, which is and then on the third' day, add: one
binary," �a pleasant stimulating constituent of tablespoonful of cinnamon, one table-
"My dear child," interposed the ex -tea. It also col1tains tannin, which, 'spoonful of allspice, one-half table -
governess "it is only the lower °lasses• if allowed to develop by premitting spoonful of cloves, one -hal'{,, table -
who use these expressions, You can -the tea to stand considerable time spoonful of ginger one-half table -
not possibly employ then in drawing -1 after brewing, is injurious to the stom- spoonful of mace. Tie the spices in a
rooms.
"Whdear?ail mean to be an in t. oiatorhn'when makinguse
tea fresh
necessity, Do hiick. water piece of Th nestoreit glasses ath and nd. ars.
this respect. Great reformers have' not boil tea.' Seal in the usual maturer.
always got. to 'put up with a certain' Chocolate and cocoa have a re- Cabbage Catsup.—One large head of
amount of persecution, I am aware;' cognized food value, whether they are cabbage, three Marge onions, . four
but I'm quite prepared for my fate.: eaten or made into a drink. Cocoa green peppers, four large cucumbers.
I'll propound my views on the subject is insoluble, but when added to boiling Chop very fine and .cover well with
further, as soon as I've done putting water the starch thickens sufficiently salt. Stand aside over night. In
Ronald through his paces. Let's get to hold the particles in solution. the morning drain well and add en-
ar to cover.
langilage Ronnie!
or dress to be got fro hinta omeither:
ou,l Condiments.—l"l s anding extracts, Place h n a porelainood cider 3presery ng kettle
seeds; herbs, spines and sauces are
as I perceive; but perhaps soul do yand cook until soft enough to rub
better in other departments, I've called condiments. The are used.to through a fine sieve, thenadd:One-
booked yon for an interview to -mor. give food a pleasing flavor and should
row with the head -keeper. He has a be partaken of moderately. Salt is fourth pound of mustard, one table -
list of grievances, partly against classed as a .conditnent as well as a spoonful of cinnamon, 008 tablespeen-
poachers, of which they scout to breed food. Persona living in hot climates ful of allspice, one tablespoonful of
a fine lot in these mills. Also, he has soon learn to like pungent hot spices, cloves, one tablespoonful of Meet, one
something connected with the health which become necessary articles of tablespoonful of .celery seed, one table -
Spoonful of cayenne pepper, one cup-
ful of brown auger. Stir well and then
cook gently far one-half hour. Bottte
into sterilized bottles and cork. Seal
Catsup and Pieldee by dipping he tops of the .bottles in
Great care roust be taken if you melted parowax, Store in a cool dry
Wish to avoidmuddy, leggy piekies, place..
of the grouso-broods weighing on his
mind, of which I feel powerless to re-
lieve him, You'll be able to bring
him peace, T expect?"
"Rather l"
The transferals:gei on Ronald's
eyes brtiiptly wakenod pp. the blue
diet. They tat directly upon the
liver, Vinegar is the fermented juice
of apples, fruit or sour wine,
chines, and I caught a momentary
glance at the pilot's face. It was
greenish -ash color. His petrol tank
had been hit. I hope the fall killed
him and that he did not burn to
death.
Away in the distance a number of
specks had risen, like vultures scent-
ing the carrion that had already been
made. It was a German squadron.
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EsrAOL/SHED teal
already useckup. ,My,partner whirled
around on his stool—a sort of, piano. -
stool, -which always made' me think
of the tuneless, tin-panny instrument
back .in.. quarters—grabbed -another,
drum and slammed it into the machine
gun. It was to be a parting message
for the Prussians, for the commander
Was just signalling to retire.
My partner Birched forward. Ile.
was hit. A thin red stream trickled
down his face. -
I raced westward, the air whistling
through the bullet holes in the wings
of the machine and my partner lean-
ing against the empty bomb rack,
silent.
As we sailed over the foremost
Pjussian trench..soine Scotch were
just leaping into it. The "ladies from
hell" the Germans call them because
of their kilts.
A Race With Death.
Several machines had landed before
htook the ground. Ambulances were
dashing back and, forth across the fly-
ing field.
They lifted my partner out of the
aeroplane, but they did not pit him
into an ambulance. He 'lad answered
another recall. I walked to quarters
The Arehies had not bothered' us ill=ill at "heart, at stomach, at mind.
much, while we were spraying the PR never know a better pal than was
Prussian trenches, but now we had Tom.
that other squadron to take care of. . On the way ,I managed to, help -with
'Our orders were to bomb the trenches h' that had just landed, A big
IF ALL T$E SKIES."
If all the skies wee sunshine
Our feces would be fain
To feel once more upon them
The cooling splash of rain.
•
If all the world were music
-Our hearts would often long•
For "he 'sweet strain of silence,
To break thg endless song.
If life were always merry
Our souls would seek relief.
And rest from weary laughter
In the quiet arms of grief.
—Henry Van Dyke
For Acid Sto eachs
KING JAMES L
TRAVELLED IN SUB
FIRST SUBMARINE WAS MADE
AND LAUNCHED IN 1620.,
Was Propelled by 'Oars, But Secret of
Obtaining Pure Air Died With
the Inventor..
The submarine is much older than
the German Empire, and the credit
of being the first sovereign to make
a trip in one is given to James L of
England, a monarch who has gener-
ally been represented as a man of
more than ordinary timidity. Doubt
has been cast on the story, but •
whether it is true or not, that _James -
actually, made a trip in a submarine,
it is interesting to recall that one of
James' friends did undoubtedly con-
struct the first practical submersible
boat recorded in history,
At Siege of Tyre. .-
"Alexander the Great is said to have
employed diving bells at_ the siege
of Tyre, 332 B.C. An Arabian histor--
ion named Bohaddin, who lived about
1160 A.D., relates that a diver entered
Ptomlemais during a siege by means
of•a submarine apparatus. ,An inven-
tion for descending into the sea 'was
heard of at Toledo in 1638, and
Charles V. is 'said to have interested
Himself in it. Forty-two years later
an Englishman, William Boone, was
credited with inventing a "plunging
apparatus" similar to a device pro-
duced nearly 200 years later by one
Symons, which was galley ahaped
with a dome -like roof, but differing in
the manner of submersion. Boone's
plunger: was submerged by contrac-
tion,.of the hull through the instru-
mentality
mentality of hand vises, which re-
duced its volume, while Symons made ,
use of leather bottles,. which he.filled
with water. `Magnus Pegelius in
1606 made a similar device which was
regarded as a marvel of its time.
Van Drebel's Device.
Atcording td Allan H. Burgoyne,
F.R.G.S., "the honor. of having con-
structed the first submarine boat un-
doubtedly belongs to Cornelius van
Drebel,'a Dutch physician. His first
submarine was made in 1626, -when
he built and launched a navigable
submersible boat, and so successful ,
did it prove that he. had two others
constructed on the same plans, in the
larger of which . James I., or whom
van, Drebel was an intimate friend,
made a lengthy trip. Those early
craft were built of wood and render-
ed watertight' by stretching greased
leather all over the hull. The follow-
ing is•from ti description of the larg-
est. She carried twelve rowers, be-"
sides pasengers, and made a journey
of several hours at a depth of from
twelve to fifteen feet. The holes for
the oars were made to hold water by
leather joints. Van Drebel accounted
.his chief secret' to be the composition
of a liquid that would speedily restore
to the troubled air such aproportion
Use. Ma'9gIi+�Sia • of vital parts as would make it again
for a good while fit for respiration. Quickly Stops Sons tion Fan. Peeling and The composition of this liquid for en-
Slakes Digestion Paialotls
The almost universal use or magnesia
abling al g
by physicians and specialists in tW made public. Van Drebel died in 1634
m h you los Is duo -
bl• r to be used again was never
treatment of stomach troubles. . without having completed his expert
the fact that rt stops food fermentation
and neutralises the acid—the direct ments, leaving no document relative -
cause of nearly all stomach troubles.Of to his. work on the subject
thfl many forms of magnesia such, as
exides, citrates; carbo antes, efficient,
an ,
etc.; the most�uitabl¢ and eflaclqut, and
Is bisurated magnesia, a teaspoonful of
which in a little warm water immediate -
the one•prescr bed by leading specialists
ly Star, eating w111 instantly neutralize
theid, stop f��rmentatlon, and thus en-
sure nsinlese Memel digestion. Care
should be taken to gat bisurated. magne-
We could not, spare a bomb or -a cart- a machine a a bus
Rolls -Royce -it was, and the radiator :ries rte action ie infinitely more ef-
ridge from the task of putting the had been hit bya bit of shrapnel. The recth e. It is also, by the way. usually
P r Teta in convenient corn-
stocicea la li ugg
pilot and observer were. both terribly presses tablote as^wen as in tiro ocdin-
scalded. cry powder form, Stomadn sufferers days when we could get no news from
altd' dyspeptics who follow th s plan and n
Just by the aerodrome another bi- avoid the use of pepsin, churooat, sdaa ussia, says the London Independent. '
lane fluttered down. The observer
glints, drugs and medicines are invarl- "The Duma has triumphed, and, whe-
p elbly astonished to ane that the stomach, they Russib meets victory, or defeat in
rdon't know what it was, but sud- was dead. The pilot was hit in'a doz- relieved of the irritating acid and gas;
th months of the war
fear of Britain into the hearts of the
infantry below before our own "Tom-
mies" should start over the top.
A Parting Message.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
— /
Last March the Fate of Democracy
Trembled in the Balance. a'
Now that it is all over we are free
to tell each other in what peril every
free nation stood' during the March
, or
denly, just after my partner had let en places. Somehow he brought the j{s woi aion'eswiihnt tl ther"fi o ptfulnaid a remaining
go a rack of bombs, there was a ter- machine -in, switched off.his engine ,or artificial digesto,atd. �• even whether an attempt is made to
•restore Czardom, matters compare- --
rific hie just beneath us. My and slopped forward in his seat, stone lively little since the critical moment
machine leaped upward,• twisted, hen dead. See that the climbing roses and has been se sinycethe passed. m -
other creepers are properly tied up,.,
riments-in putting.alfalfa and Suppose that the Imperial Court
Exile
other leguminous .crops in the silo had triumphed r over the Russian pee -
have not always been. satisfactory.
There seems to be no crop that is so
universally satisf ,gtory for silage as
corn. '
The breeding -of flies in manure
heaps is, easily prevented. • Use carbo-
sul and water;. one part carbo-stl and
twentz parts water. Sprinkle the
heap well and as fresh material is'
plied up sprinkle it, and the flies will
be prevented from breeding,
dropped suddenly. Death himself was
trying to wrench the control levers
from my grip, but I clung to them
madly and we righted. A few more
inches and I couldn't have told you
about this.
There was no longer any chance to
worry abqut flying position. There
were too many things occupying- my
attention—that line of gray down
there that we were trying to erase and
the Boche squadron thrumming down
on us.
' One drum of our ammunition was
Ten minutes later I was sound
asleep. Tile next day yve were at it
again.
In battles pf this kind it is more or
less a matter of good fortune if you
escape with ,your life. Flying, ability
and trickiness can play but, little part.
Itis in the lone adventure that stunt
flying helps. •
An Englishman has invented a grass
trimmer, operated with both hands,
which greatly Sesembles horse clip-
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•a�peedy'peace with the Central Pow-
ers and a *ithdrawal'of Russia from
the Entente.. The nations of Western
Europe Alone would probably be a
match for the Central Po'ivers, but
they could hardly hope fors decisive
victory with all the troops in the East-
ern theatre of war thrown into the
scale against them,
When we see how nearly equal are
Germany and Austria to all the forces
which the rest of :the world has yet
been able to send against them, we
can imagine what a menace 'they
.would,be with the aid of hundreds of
millions ^ of Russians organized by
Prussian system and dotninated by
Prussian diplomacy, Neither the Ro-
man Caesars nor Napoleon at the
height of his power could so subject
the nations to their will es the rulers
Whose domains would stretch from
the Arctic to the Persian Gull and
from Belgium to the Pacific.
That this should not be was doter-
lnined by God antl"Man when the red
flag was raised above the palaces 'bf
Petrograd.
In 1013, Soutli Africa imported 21,-
268,000 eggs, This year it will be
found that over 2,000,000 have been
exported, after local requirements had
been filled,
The raising•of cattle in Rhodesia hits
ire reachedthe stage where meat
ermine' plants must be provided to
care for 1110 excess output. .
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