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V‘V VVV'V»V v \___‘| _ NORIHERN Tome ‘ HAS 'GREAl-fUlURE L‘Unlnhablted Wlldornesa of Forests and Lakes Being Transformed Into Peopled Region - Without attracting much notice from l ' "EYE STRAIN ONLTRAINS I Anuun nghtlng. Make. Reading Very Harmful Many people believethat it is in: lurious to the eyes to read on a. train, but few seem to know why. The reason is the added strain on the deli- “the older and more settled parts 01.03“ muscles 01 the BYOB: Bays the Canada, the northern portion of On- tario is being gradually transformed from an uninhabited “wilderness ‘of forests and lakes into a civilized re- ...gion dotted with small towns and .homesteads with a strong individu- Vality of its own. A traveller who recently visited .Northern Ontario expressed himself enthusiastically with regard to the prospects of that portion ofthe Domin~ ion. . . ., “In ten years-that country will be like a new Province," he said. “It will notbe like old Ontarioâ€"not in :the least. Neither will it belike the ’TWestern plains or likeBritish Colum- bia. I am not speaking in a partisan v;ay,when I say that the future ad- duninistratlon of old Ontario will have -.‘to stretch their powers and their ‘ imaginations in order to do justice to this new region. In fact, it is going ‘to be hard to treat it as part of old ’xOntario. That claybelt will support 'nn. enormous population. There will be great. cities ,up there and Whole counties that know not Toronto, ex- cept as a far-off report." The speaker went on to point on”. that when New Ontario is once de- veloped "it will' have a strong set of characteristics of its own. He point- c-d out that the, very toil which is necessary iv order to clear the land will call for the best kind of settlers .and will bring out rugged qualities in 'the childre- of these settlers. The population of New Ontario is still small. It is getting a splendid type of settler, chiefly from Old Ontario, ‘but many are men from Europe, who "have been employed in the mines to 'the south, and who have. reverted to "the soil. The farmers of this region .are producing excellent foodstuffs and. finding ready markets in the mining ramps to the south. They pay little attention to wheat growing except on a small Scale. Practically every farm, .no matter 110w small the clearing, is going in for mixed farming. MAlNTAlN THE WoosLANss Loo Little Attention to the Subject by i the General Public l . Prof. E. J. Zavitz, Provincial fore-s- .ter, in speaking of the results of co- operative work in forestry in Ontario, said two'hundred thousand tree had been placed last year in 29 counties of the province. The department had a plantation in every county, and the trees put out have been planted in waste types of soil, in blow sand, steep hillsides, etc. They prove a big factor in the protection of roads from the~drift sand and landslides. There is only nine per cent. of wood- lands in southern Ontario, less even than in closely populated Great Britain,_the speaker said. The qual- ity of our forests also is not improv- ing, as the best trees are being cut down and not replaced. .'Labor, or the want of it is partly to blame for the fact that We do not keep up our woodlands, ’but the professor hinted that indifference, and the fact that there was no immediate return, was the chief factor. In Norfolk County there are one million trees in the nur- series and sixteen thousand acres in connection for experimental planting. Prof. Zavitz, hovvever, is quite frank about the fact that but nttie en- couragement, much too little, is given by farmers and the general public .on the subject of reforestation. Es- pecially is this pronounced when we consider that trees can be had for the asking. Discovery ln Potatoes Three French scientists, Dr. Sar- tory, M. M. Gradist, and M. Thiebert, announced successful results of their experiments to restore the. constitu~ tion of the potato. They discovered that edible‘ tubers can be obtained from potato seeds with the aid of a certain microscopic grOund mush- room, which fastens to the roots and causes tuberlzation desired. Experiments produced potatoes free from disease. and scvants assert the regeneration of the potato is now as- sured. Important economic results are expected. W - ‘ -. . Medical Bulletin. The ‘motion of the train shakes the paper or book con- stantly, thus continually changing its position and its distance from the eyes, keeping the delicate ‘muscles of the eye in constant action to readjust the focus. Extra. work is thus thrown on these tiny muscles, as the changing of focus occurs sometimes 100 times a minute. Another case of eye strain, ing on trains is the poor, lighting usually encountered. Often people try to read their evening papers on a train or streetcar when the daylight is fading and before the car lights are turned on. Even with the lights on the situation is not greatly im- proved. The cars are frequently crowded and the strap-hangers sway back and forth between the paper and the source of light. Usually the light is high up in the centre of the car. ceiling, and is badly placed for read- ing, the light being too far from the, paper and th' light~ rays being rte-H1118 the lake- ' flected into the eyes from the book, or magazine. Some trains now carry library cars, which have the source readers. A FGRTUNFL'I‘N FlADIUM The radium in this, tube is worth $160,000. The little tubeheld be- tween the thumb and forefinger con- tains seven milligrams of radium. ..4...-.-. ..__.. l l l l .dred villages . Winners “- In Southern 'Nigeria, on the west ’coest of _Africa, the British Govern- ment has done much to encourage the practice of forestry, . and eight hun- now have communal plantations of rubber trees. The natives supply the labor, the native chiefs supply the land and the Fores- try Department supplies the seeds, technical knowledge and tapping ap' pltances. The profits are divided equally among the three coâ€"operating parties. The largest lake on the east,slope of‘ the Rocky Mountains lies at the headwaters of the Maligne river, a tributary of the Athabaska. It is twenty‘two miles long and from one to three miles wide, and is surround- ed by lofty mountains which make it one of the 'most beautiful spots in the Rocky Mountain region. Yet this lake was practically unknown. until a for: est survey was made of this region by the Dominion Forestry Branch. Unfortunately, there are no fish in this lake, owing probably to the fact that the Maligne river flows under- ground for several miles, after leav- The revenue from - the forests of' British India administered by the In- dian Forest Service last year amount- “of light behind and at the side ot-theg ed to over $14,000,000. The total cost i of lire-protection, . i i treedplanting and administration generally, was $8,000,- lOOO, leaving a net annual revenue of $6,000,000, which the forests are able to produce continuously, without de- pletion. The "Great Divide" is sometimes a very small affair in the Rocky Moun- talus of Alberta and British Columbia. A. forest survey party sent out by the Dominion Forestry Branch, found that the head waters of the Athabaska river in Alberta were separated only by a narrow strip of low-lying land from the waters of a lake in British Columbia whichdrains into the'Colum- bia river. Were the outlet bof this lake blocked and a shallow trench dug for a couple of hundred yards, [ts waters could be made to flow east ' Instead of west. A- somewhat similar case is seen where the head waters of the Smoky and Fraser rivers, though flowing in opposite directions, have their com- mon source at the base of a great glacier on Mount Robson, which guards the boundary between Alberta and British Columbia. Rabbits damaged or killed thousands ofyoung forest trees in the West by eating the bark around the base of the stems. _ Circular saws of paper are being increasingly used in England for the cutting of thin plates of wood. Ve- neers made inthis way are so smooth that cabinet-makers can use them without further planing. , ‘ Tor Estimates . On new buildings consultuat 0r give us You run N O RISK. see our‘goods. S. S. Gainer. - summon FALLS. a 012m THEM ONE _ BETTER. Furniture delivered to your home at LESS'* THAN CITY PRICES Call and SEE OUR WALL PAPERS. fig? . iyour order for Doors, Sash, Interior Finish, Wéiwill be pleased to figure on what you will need in supplies, or the whole contract. .1 ' 'F. C. TAY LOB. fills a common superstition amm the-woodsmen of eastern Canada in many of the “dead” larch trees ha. come to life again. The trees notiCt 'Were not really dead, however, b: had appeared so because they in. been entirely stripped of their 113a?- by the larvae of the larch saw-f, The tamarack is a valuable tree h", cause of its ability to grow :11 S',‘v‘fll‘.1,-I‘e tinned ravages of he larch Over one-half the taniarack in caste-:- Canada has already been destroyed. Mr.’W. N. Millar, District luspectt of Dominion Forest Reserves in A. berta, says: “Along the north fork o'. the Sheep River is found the largest body of non-licensed merchantabil- “timber which I have yet seen in the Rocky Mountains. It is rather re- markable that this timber consists al- mostentirely of lodgepole pineâ€"there was in sightat least ten'sections (10 square miles) of‘this timber.” Australian gum-trees have attained the enormous height of 480 feet, which is 140 feet higher than the most gigantic sequoias in California, and twice as high as the great firs of British Columbia. How trees supply their foliage with water at such a height is still a matter of scientific controversy. ,â€" Prlncesa Mary's Handwriting Although burdened with the cares and, anxieties ofa throne, the King and Queen,, “Sunday at Home,” states, always find true delight in being with their children, in guiding them in what they do, and in cultivating their devoted love. It is said that on Prin- cess Mary's birthday she has to ack- nowledge every congratulation from friends with her own hand, the letters being handed to the Queen for inspec- tion before being sent. The typewriter is appreciated for general use in the household, but is not rcquisitioned for private correspondence. Princess Mary’s handwriting is like that of other members of her family, clear as print, and, though not yet quite, form- ed,‘shows plenty of indication of what experts'in handwriting call “charac- 0' for. I EPUCfilTE' THE PEOPLE Mr. Caskey Thinks Canada Should do More For the lmmigrantx â€"â€"q H. K. Caskey of the Layman’s Mis- sionary Movement, said that if the country could spend twelve million dollars annually on its military estab- lishment of fifty thousand men to pre- pare for a possible armed defence, the Dominion should provide any sum necessary to properly equip mentally 400,000 immigrants who came here annually. Every armory in the coun- try might weli be, a centre for super- vised playgrounds and community work, with moving-pictures as an educational feature, musical events and pageants by the people them- selves, addresses on sanitation, health, citizenship, laws and history. “Canada,” he said, “seeks immigra-- tion by advertising in the British Isles, the United States and 'at least ten continental countries. and has spent for that purpose in six years $6,849,- 598, and received fully 1,600,000 im- migrants. Surely Canada should spend in special educational work for these honest people at least what she spent in educational- work in getting them here. Chinese immigrants paid last year in head taxes $3,523,500, about $750,000 more than all the churches in Canada combined contributed to mission. work at home and abroad. 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