'AN ADDITIONAL 3,000,000 TO BE CULTIV ATED. Gorcrnment Demand for Increased Prestuction in Fair Way of Kuing Realized, has st that many of the playing fields i private ha: i ce vir the authorities and let! as : |} FORESTS AS A FACTOR IN WAR. A Very Necessary Ascot of the Coun Vietory is with the army whose country has the greatest iron mines The Government demand for thU and smelters, the largest areas of 'Waving grain and _.2, wood. Of all the products of the soil fair way of being realized, and despite, upon which the very life of a nation the difficult weather conditions - that | depends in times of war, wood is the only one that cannot be rapidly i creased under necessity and by 'cultivation of an additional 3,000,000 acres during the present year is in a! have prevailed during the past few months the work is well in hand, says a British correspondent on Feb. 25th. In the opinion of the officials of the tional programme, which requires an of vast reserves of timber throughout increase of one acre in &ddition to the | four previously ploughed, will be car-| ried out, providing the weather holds year if necessary to meet the needs of ne' good for ploughing. : Up to the middle of January ajmost grass land whiciy it is hoped to put | under the plough had been broken uP | though the season for ploughing grass | land had only just begun. While the; million acres of arable which is in-| even more forward condition. slate that never before has so muc Government Supplies Tractors. { tractors supplied by the Production' not only add to her economic develop- Department. In one area of Lincoln-| ment in times of peace, but be develop- shire alone in the months between Au-! ed and maintained to better insure her wust and November more than 5,000 , against vital needs in times of possible acres were ploughed by mechanical future strife.--Prof. J. W. Toumey. traction, while a Somerset district ex-: ceeds this figure by 2,000 acres. { - The Wiltshire return to the middle; of January gives 12,000 acres plough- ed out of the 28,000 acres ordered --' Romantic History of the White House e Desk Used by the President. The United States has often been the recipient of a national gift, the cludes the statement there are ten wo-| most prominent being, of France's gift of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor, 7,000 acres in this area have been! sown to wheat. In one week 329 acres' were tractor ploughed. The report in-! men drivers sufficiently trained to take ' over new tractors as soon as they ar- rive. Six ee The premium offered to the farmers! of an extra $5 for every ton of pota-/ ' ' ' vation of grass lands. In Cornwall, where the season comes earlier than in most other districts, the farmers are placing a very large acreage under The surplus supply of potatoes grown during the last year will be largely used to stretch the -- bread- stuils. Ip to the present the Ministry of Food has coatented the Food Econ- omy Department by reeuesting the hakers to use petatoes in bread mak- ing and giving demonstrations of their use in bread, It is expected that the department will shortly issue an order making the use of potatoes in bread compulsory, Steck Farmers Complain. *Inr 'guid to the catue question things are not so satisfactory. The grafting order. which gives the farm- er the actual weight of dead meat pro- duced. at the wholesale price, does wot WMTcrentiate between the different qualities of meat. Thus the farmer gets just the same amount a pound for the lean beast as for the prime eattle. This grievance wil] shortly be adtusted, Farmers who have been ta the habit of buying: store entitle in Ireland and fattening them at home point aut that the pricy allowed under the grad- ing order takes no wecount of the pre- sent cost of feeding stuffs, while the considerably. A feature of the tremendous effort growing, scarcity of fuel during that is being made to increase the past few years eulminated in a near food supply of the country is the catastrophe during the present i readiness with which the public have ter. tuken up with the allotment move-. beyond peradventure that it is very' ment. The Government gave the local dangerous to try "to muddle through" suthorities powers to enter any Jand any longer. that was not being used for the grow- past has not been lost if that lesson | ing of foodstutfs and let plots at a' has been thoroughly learned. nominal rent or free in certain eases' tions are net lacking, by any means, | to persons who were willing to work. that the shortage of coal next winter t. Will be Up to end of 1917 over 1,500 Jocal output of the Nova Scotia coal mines authorities had exercised their powers has declined from 7,263,485 i and provided not less than 200,000 1913 to 5,657,000 tons in 1917, or 22.75 hornbills easily tamed. Plots, representing approximately 15,-! per cent. Owing to the steadily grow-! birds out of the tree nes 00) acres. 7 jing scarcity of mine labor and to re- The crops produced during the year cent serious mine accidents it is were cstimated to have included over' dent that there must be a further. hornbill remains attached to its foster! 300,000 long tons of potatoes and marked reduction in 1918. At the sam?! parents and w vegetables enough for 2,000,000 fami- time there has been a large increase! dishes. lies, while the value of the crops 'in the consumption of coal in the Mari- grown must have been considerably time provinces during those years. In over $15,000,000, ; fact, it appears as if the Nova Scotia! mating season, when Demand for Wartime Plots, mines will not be able to do better aeee aes) ie 'than to supply their own requirements In the London district the demand! and those of the Maritime provinces. for these wartime plots has been; 80/3¢ this is done, little or no coal greut that it is almost impossible to he available for Montreal and it is as- find a vacant lot that is not under cul- sumed that no Nova Scotia coal will be, available for Ontario. dicates that in the weodpile lies one _for allotments, arid the demand for | of the means of pre . these plote has exceeded ail sxpecta- | disaster next winter. tivation. In the -parks and open Spaces portions have "been sét apart art--the elder artist explained -the sit- 'which produces the first and most) n ams Jasting impression upon the mind of PUmpy ground. The man in front of ihe sea, there have been disasters in your =n . lhe she lg er an observer. To credit that assertion, | po sa nieeriee wheel, ; Berd which vessels have gone down with all bc, slhrheiys hasan one must stop and reflect a moment. 7 Tepes sn Peres: jtheir eontents,.perhaps only a few . © will not.enter into the affair at " oref tte of, course, a pity; but you will not need to do such a thing again, and one's mother--Well! Art can wait." _{ | In the cooler parts €f the globe we CT#dually our speed ixicreased. The time. There they lie together at the "the more likely will one be to recog- ai the nation, reserves from which bil-| commission and comptiantly followed Sometimes he succeeded in modifying; and toning down until the results were not bad; at other times they sent shiv- ers along his aesthetic spine. tunately, the lady herself also got A sane and conservative develop- n quarter of the 2,000,000 acres of, ment of forest resources to meet the needs of the nation in times of peace necessitates a constantly increasing intensity of management of all abso- lute forest land and the building up and maintenance of an enormous for- tended for food crops of higher value est capital. Please remember this for- than those formerly grown, is in an, cst capital can be drawn upon in times of war and may determine the fate of Reports from a number of districts , the nation. or generations, England has ob-! wheat been planted under satisfactory tained most of the wood used in her | conditions. Reports give details of | buildings and industry from beyond ' yp, the willingness of the farmers to the sen. The stress of war found her! og break up their grass lands, and in sev- with a meagre forest capital, and the! eral counties the quantity broken has, sous of England and Canada are to- exceeded the demands made by the day felling the remnant of th " department. In Cornwall the wheat of that proud country that the empire' situation is good. A total of 52,128 may live. When the sombre clouds of acres has beert sown or prepared, these} war are lifted from Europe's Mittle-| figures showing 35,000 acres more: fields and peace again rules over the than last year, while another 22,000! earth, England's lesson, learned in acres will be dealt with also this year,!this bitter strife, will be taken to c |heart by her people and forests will {clothe her idle lands. A forest capital, Farmers are making full use of the far beyond that of former ider the bark namely the broad-leaved ightly--the b followed d | deciduous trees--the oaks and hickor- a eat 2 eee as: - 8 devoid of tact or consideration, her imperiousness at one moment and complacent condescension at another were equally irritating. Nevertheless, he submitted with outward patience, nor did he scheme for revenge--but it was almost thrust upon him. The last room to be embellished was e dining room. Madame had devis-: , she announced, a truly delicious' scheme of decoration. - The colors were | grecn, gray-green and gray, ij | but little in common beyond the fact! jctence, colors were to be employed in conven- ; tional designs as a fresco aleng the | walls and repeated and emphasized in: ;a large panel picture above the man-/ el. "It-is to represent a mermaid in, sea cave sporting with the creatures rocks, green water, gliding silvery- and the mermaid's long, green hair. She must recline upon a flat rock and look out of the picture, smiling, while she teases a little group of vivid red lobsters in the foreground." *. San" eee . - AN HISTORIC WRITING-DESK. | The young artist | gasped. " "Red, , ' ti tor - 'di pe a dl ly, that would be effective; extraor " {tds the trees and not the setting ed very unimportant, but every! Most of the marble statues were in- playing with three or four red sters---very red lobsters, with a beam striking down through the wa- ter to bring out the full value of the would be pleased. with . when it is. S Lplace both of our northern tree types on the same setting, and no matter! w: , a~./ of the President, than the desk at the tocs grown on freshly broken land i3' White House on which the President proving an incentive to further culti-| does almost all his writing, and on which probably his famous despatches and manifestoes have been penned. jchance, and the impatience lost it for] her. He painted the panel exactly ast. |grand dinner party in the cémpleted It mas made from the' timbers of room did she learn with fury and H.M.S. Resolute, which was sent to chagrin from the lips of her laughing the Arctic to look for Sir John Frank- guests that the lobsters with which! lin in 1852, and, in its turn, caught in| that sportive mermaid the ice and abandoned. An American' boiled. whaler discovered it and extricated it | three yeurs later, and the Government | of the States purchased it and sent it, } as a token of good will to Queen Vic- toria. Years afterwards the Resolute was broken up, and from some of her! soundest timgers a desk was mnude,! which was sent to the President Her Majesty "as a memorial courtesy and loving kindness dictated the offer of the gift of THE YELLOW HORNBILL. A Bird That Hides to Change Her, ' cme = 4. lit, will recognize that his Camps in' scene behind it. Then I realized that owner*of Quernmore Park purchased | When we were schoolboys we read, hj; menrory from those made in the centrifugal force, I suppose, accounts pat with interest about the strange-look-)groud-leaved forests. This is espe- 'for the fact that while you are in the'. Some of the old railings | removed 4, ins bornbill which lived in India and' e¢juily true if he thinks of his winter air you are hardly aware Of leaning. 'Africa and walled its wife in a tree) camps, where he has a sense of pro-| when she was ready to hatch her ergs. tection under the evergreen foliage of was_the feeling one has in a car wh? ; Ne Recent studies of these bitds, of which: the pines and spruces that is wholly hé reaches the crest of a hill. We be- ship was wrecked, but the railings there are half a dozen varieties, says! wanting in the leafless forests of the gan to glide downward. The earth be- "ere Tecovered. They were placed . Te proad-leaved trees. The passing low grew larger, rapidly reversing all #0U SOI OK! ' veals the fact that the female hornbiil 'storm has in each a different note. The, the phenomena of cur slower ascent, 2% and his wife in the High Park, i They bending snow-laden branches of the I saw the hangars and the field. tree. | everyreen tree is a picture quite were almost down, So in the fullness of time that desk, made of British oak, has supported the the Library of Natural History, epoch-making decisions have been re- corded, decisions which will affect for centuries great English-speaking nations, through them will influence the hu- man race. : : ; barricade, leaving oniy a small hole 'through which, as the weeks pass, her Whe "mate passes food to her mouth. A per-; sistent naturalist in Damaraland dr a female bird out of her tree nest. a reward for the Igceration: of NEXT WINTER'S FUEL. IB Wien Johnny comes marching home Decline in Production of Coal Predict- As wAdn . ed by Commission of Conservation. 5 : ' ; &eWell vive bim a hearty welcome then, Foresight is always mere effective . existence of a feee beef market in than hindsight, but in handling freland handicaps the Britich farmer coal situation a combination of both molting while hatching he It has surely been demonstrated | The yellow hornbi:l, one of the most? ; , With roses they will strew the way, atively fearless bird and is ensily kill-!. ° The male is fond of perching "on! ithe tip-tops of tropic trees and mak- 'ing a noise like a young puppy. young and raise them on milk + and' evi-; berries in their huts. Left free, the hornbill comes! and goes much as does a pet crow remains about the hut until the first! with one-of its kind, rarely to return. lickety-split over that same e next time you go that way take! a pick along, dig out that stone, and put it where it never will bother an le ~| A young American who recently went up with an aviator of ithe famous! cao FORTH TN ee acrale, Lafayette thus describes TREASURES WHICH "LIE MANY a6 z se ions: ' ' "VIEWS OF NATURE: lake' gata tus. ethat' sacacieins PATHOMS DEEP. 5 "igi Sasa besides 'myself; I sat behind the pilot, é sete : with my knees pressed against the : Vegetation of a Coantry Preduces back of his little chair and my arms Instances of the Recovery of Articlrs Mest Lasting Impression Upen round braces that went from the edges That Had Lain Buried For of the car to the Mind. heh the tabtiuries ap he mon. Theusands of Years. | : : swung t 'Alexander von Humboldt bas writ- tt r plane round, the propeller speed] From the days when the first pre- ifen in his "Views of Nature," I think, sed, and we began to move slow-' historic man ventured on. the sea in "The pay will be good," he conclud-' ed, "and for the rest give madamsa that it ix 'the vegetation of a country | ty down 'the fleld. It was like bei his rade dugout to our own dstys when Th eful the consideration! circle. Then his hand slid up on the badly made water jars, or perha. stata peers adi een the buzz = the bid | treasures of art, of science am of is nize the truth of Humboldt's state-| Propeller Decame a@ roar, and a great dustry, priceless in their day and il- ieont gust of wind began to be sucked past. lustrative of the civilization of that : grass sped by keneath us and the: bottom of th being slowly de- have well. marked contrasting Te bumps became one continual vibration! stroyed nol pranaily covneed with silt of trees which grow in ana pane Z x of rushing speed. Then with a little] It is a very common thing, says annual additions of new wood outside lift, as if shaking itself free of the | Chambers's Journal, to recover guns of the old wood and immediately un-! earth, the front of our. machine- rose! and shot from the sea. In the Tower ! os London' there is a gun that was . eae . : rought up from the k of th jes; and the trees which, in general,| 4 sudden and remarkable transform- Mary eg three uaindved years after shed their leaves so' slowly that they | ation took place. From the rush of @ she 'sank, in 1545, off the English ani: . 4 d are called persistent-leaved trees, as racing car we were transported in an cogst.. Some years ago a trawler the pines and spruce, in which the new: instant into a great calm. The roar! hrompiit. np fees the Condwin Sande « leaves age on before the old are off. At! o¢ the motor and the strong wind con- | Ro : é a , Roman amphora that was two feet six any season of the year one can hardly! tinued, but all the intimate 'contact! ; P So | to observe' the differences of ap-i nner: out all 8 € inches in height and nearly two feet : ne. -- between -an oak and a pine-! continued to race by beneath, but it lons' capacity. It had a rounded base The ground in diameter and of about sixteen g might almost say that they had / seemed quite dissociated from our ex-! and two handles at the neck. Without i | doubt, it had lain at the bottom of the t both were trees, so far as exter-} y gave myself over to studying MY} sea more than a thousand years. nal appearance revealed. If, however,| sensations. The most remarkable was| The portrait of Capt. Edward E. e view point were changed to a tro-/ the utter cessation of all the ordinary Wiliiams, the friend. of Shelley, who ives region, a new type of tree would tattributes of motion. Although we was drowned with the poct in the Gulf aim our attention. The simple beauty 'climbed in three great circles to a of Spezia in 1822, is one of the frail 'of the palms would attract us at once. height-of twenty-five hundred feet, it things recovered from the ocean. Capt. 'To the palm we might add the tree seemed rather as if the landscape be-| Williams drew the portrait him- fern, which' though wholly unlike the 'neath us passed slowly through meta- self, and it appears to have been little palm in its structure «nd methods of / morphoses, of which we were calm and damaged by its immersion in the sea. reproduction, possesses a marked gen-| disinterested spectators: The past ex- | In sharp contrast to such fragile eral resemblance in form, i.e.,- in! pep; : he! ans a : . : , . perience most like the present was the h ; . * | shape. The year thraugh, the tropical | ~ things is the -post chaise 'that 'was ; | experience of being on a mountain brought up from the Goodwins. The forest would be perpetually evergreen. | top. To the tremendous wind there , Wheels were still attached to the axles |Here there are three distinct types | was added of course the roar of the' and came up with the vehicle. 'which force themselves upon our no- 'engines and the avhir of the great pro-! tice at once. |peller. In spite of the wind and -- ag ni Neen discov ree Impressions. (parent aie a tee ant ered on the coast of Africa the wreck In addition to the forms of decidu-! beaten by a gale. The distant views!°f 47 ancient vessel that lay in nine- ous leaved and "persistent-leaved"| of forests and lakes added to the illu-{teen fathoms of water. It proved to trees, there would be the topographical | sjon. be a Greek galley laden with bronze . setting in which we found them, but a] Directly beneath us, however, was +224 marble treasures dating from the moment's thought will convince that) new kind of landscape. The hills'¢@tliest years of the Christian era. which produces-the permanent mental /house and hedgerow stood up like- a Jured by the water, but some, deeply igture, unless the topographical set-/toy, outlined by its clear-cut shadow. | UTIed-in the mud, were fairly well ings are different--as a winter street) And cows in the field wold have been Preserved. The bronze medallions, scene and a winter river view, But! meré splotches on the green if it had; the other hand, were not much the not-been for their own little shadows, | ¥orse for their years in the water. In hich gave them reality. ; addition to the works of: art there es There was ho fear po: nd pieces of or- bab. j be e ae onal wag ne 4 er, ae s forgotten; eve hairs, The nt. growth of the tropies| cept the landscape and the cotta lamp that still retained its.wick." oduces one mental impression and/ ea By a wild stretch "of faces ea The east window of the church in 2 atern, harsh simplicity of a north-' tion one could imagine falling towatd QUernmore Park in Lancashire has a n pine, or spruce forest, another,/ that little landscape below; falling CUTious history. The glass was made eich equally abiding, though quite dif- | wing over wing, perhaps. In the 7 England for a church in Cannes, fdrent in kind. jthought there was something rather France, and was forwarded by sea. So much for the scene, in mass-- pleasant. You would have plenty of The vessel in which it was shipped the impression made, we may say,'time to right the machine wher-you Was wrecked near Marseilles, and, as upon the ordinary observer. Beyond got nearly down. The very diseanc2: the window was given up for lost, a und deeper than this, however, are the) seemed to be a tremendous cushion of "&W one was ordered in England. A aes 1 1 in those who ob-' safety;.seemed to insure against a! Greek merchant bought the wreck and serve more minutely. sudden catastrophe. the cargo and suceceded in recovering The "red-blooded man," who camps; Leoking out through the wing, I was the window, which he vold at auction annually in the woods for the love of surprised to see it I'ft against. the with the rest of the salvage. The the pine or spruce forests differ in! we were "leaning" against a turn. The ya dheg aie: and set it up in the church : e. from the front of St. Paul's Cathedral Theh the sensation changed; Tiiere about forty years ago were sent to ee ee ged n America in the steamship Delta, The t the tomb of John George How- We Toronto, and the following inscription I wondered how | "85 recorded on a brass plate: Then the female climbs in and lays her. giher than the rigid branches of the the pilot could be sure we would pass 'St. Paul's Cathedral for 160 years I eggs. Her mate brings mud and sticks 'Je: (loss tree, as but little snow can re- over the houses and trees that loomed | did inclose, which she helps arrange into a strong! m.. noon the latter. large ahead of us, and then we were O stranger, look with reverence. a 'over them and gliding toward the Man! man! unstable man! . 1» Eehouy Comes. Marchloe Home. | £7855 of the field. The downhill feel-: It was thou who caused the sever- _. !ing suddenly ceased and we were glid- ance, = ° ing almost level through the air. Just In 1851 a lecturer on naval archi- x touch, then another, and before I tecture gave a list of the failures in knew it we were-humping along over the attempt to sheathe English ship: the field. terrestrial beings once more with lead, and hinted that something = omennmensnce might have been learned from a Ro- NEXT WINTER'S WOOD? , man galicy of the time of Trajon that som . had been recovered frem the bottem of Take Steps to Avert a Possible Fuel. the lake of Riccia, and that wre found Hurrah, hurrah! Hurrah, hurrah! | will cheer, the boys will if will all turn out, *feel gay Shortage. -to be sheathéd with lead fastened on boas aii 3 a ice ily Fy . ils. - Many. less : nay comes mevching home. | Already a number of municipalities with cOnpEr Sas. Many lessons in ~ fuc] Beval architecture and gunnery are 'are preparing for a_ possible 'shortage next winter. Carletaa , : Place, Ont., is arranging for the pur- 5¢85 for the enlightenment of future 'chase of at least 1,000 cords of wood. R&terations--but it is to he hoped that Ottawa, too, is making similar pre- those xenerations will not indge. the iparations on a larger scale. Efforts present age wholly by such memorials. lare also being made to speed up the can ter 'output of the coal mines of Canada. gid church bell will peal with joy, now being jiaid on the botlam of the ° Hurrah. burrah! To vcleome home our darling boy, Hurrah, hurrah! ihe village lads and lassies' say, snd we'll all feel gay Life's School. | . 1 When Johnny comes marching home.' ai these activities are receiving the Whan first your stumbling foctsteps ps . 5 Is in British Army 'endorsation and assistance of the ssed 60,000 Camels in British Army. 'Commission of Conservation. They. Through our front gate, to go to Far the most interesting and curi- are steps in the right direction, The' "schoo ; sus use io which an animal in war i8 | narrow escape from a fuel catastrophe I watched through eves that dimmed subjected is the use of camels, chosen ¢hj5 year has shown, with startling too fast : Poy Py * . and trained because of their "strange clearness, the serious dependence of To see my laddie turn, at last, 'coloring and height. | Canada on the United States for sup- And wave his hand, as was his rule. Small groups of them have been sta-' plies of coal and the urgent necessity Before the road hid him from view ill eat out of the same jjoned among clumps of acacia trees, that exists for obtaining substitutes in ['d say, "Good-hy, and good luck, toot!" with a spy mounted on a camel's neck. ! central Canada, for the duration of and ; This is the safest place a person could ' the war at leaat. . 4 be, for the camel or giraffe, standing: The Commission of Conservation's | with only his head above the trees, pulletin "Wood for Fuel" will be sent looks precisely like a bit of the foli-' on request to any municipality inter- And now your steps go marching by, My little son, though grown so-tall, I watch you with a sméle, and sigh, | With pride and love within my eye: e distance. In the last Af-! ested | "My son, who answered to the call moze in a H : ee STITT | . F han can}paign the British lost over! tipaammerehfe | Of Liberty, I'm proud of: you! That is the five hundredth time you! £9 000 a and to-day, in Egypt, | ; 'Good-by, dear boy, and 'good. luck, £ * ; ? a Make Your Maples Work. too!" there are 60,000 in army service. They | : are especially used for transportation! To-day in France only one and one) . --AM, Hucke. purposes. © - j tenth pounds per individual per month a e -- of cane sugar is allowed, and in Italy; Remove piles of straw, trash and No system of farming is & success but one pound per month, Make the | lumber which harbor rats in fieléa and nless it makes men better citizens. | sugar maples work this spring. - -| vacant lots. - %