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for the boys and girls the cornstalk dining hall around three sides of the box and fasten securely to the pole with wire before it is too late you should so to leave a tent- know how to make a shelter for the uke over the of winter birds aid also lay in a supply l f t of food for them a cornstalk shelter s w nve you two tobies on is one of the finest things you canl to p feod k wj make cither for the birds or the squir- carpenter perhaps you will want rels take a box about two by three j p a bo a1 around j feet any box will do but that is a good p of the box so the birds will not size you will also need a piece of e grain now for the food i lumber six or seven feet long and for wnter get all the sunflower heads i two inches square or a small sapling can and p in in paper sacks from the woods will do as well cut han 8 the attlc p a hole in the top and bottom of the barn where the mice can t get at them box just large enough to put in the one sunflower head put up in the corn- pole then tike out one side of the stalks ca the srst customers to 1 box nail a narrow strip across the lunch room and ey tell front of the box so the food will not others your advertsmg is all done for a famous wood structure the government buildings at wellington new zealand the largest wooden building in the southern hemisphere the photograph is one issued by the active publicity department of the new zealand government a mothers love bo easily brushed out on to the ground if you got a sapling for your polo leave a few small branches at the top if you use a stick you should put two i have stood upon the mountain top and seen the world below i have gazed down yawning caverns and seen the torrents flow raging foamflecked and mighty hurled upon rock with a roar to inspire ou6 with grandeur tlo winter if you live where the black alder berries grow get some branches of these and keep them in a cool place until real stormy days or three big nails in thttop before come then your birds will thank you you fasten the pole into the box this f wlh i man could ask nothing more will give a place to fasten the wire for and a kinds of nuts can be which you will need to bind on tho u to p cornstalks i tne cornstalk dining hall so it faces now you are ready for your corn- hous th can watch the stalk cover get dad to give you at corae each day also it least two shocks of stalks and tell him ls a p ha p to to leave some ears on for the squirrels that offers more 1 shelter when it storms yet to be inspired by grandeur comes not from tho mountains height nor from the raging torrent in its fury and its might for that which touches deepest guarding f fr insects how entomologists and foresters cooperate in protetciiig this great natural resource by dr j m swalne dominion entomologist for forest insects in dealing with the great natural re- instects have studied the situation sources embodied in canadian forests minutely throughout ontario quebec the forest authorities have to consider and new brunswick and the final re- not only the economical harvesting suits of their studies with recommen- and efficient utilization of the crop j dations of methods to be used will ba but also he protection of the growing j ready for distribution shortly trees the three chief enemies of the j efforts to control pests forest are fires fungi and insects and the xten3ve dar outbreak while opinions differ as to which of the tne yel whue pine anj three causes the greatest loss there is no doubt that the damage due to insects in eastern canada and in bri tish columbia during the past ten years has been very heavy the insects which have in recent years been most injurious to canadian forests are the spruce budworni in eastern canada the western pine barkbeetle in britsh columbia and more british than britain where are most people of purely british origin to be found the obvl- the larch or tamarack sawfly from dominion entomological branch have lodgepole pine in british columbia have killed many millions of feet of the best pine timber in the proviace and the injury is still spreading in many places where artificial control measures have not yet been under taken extensive control operations carried out by the british columbia forest branch and the dominion for estry branch in cooperation with the ous answer would seem to be lu eng land but the answer would be wrong tho number of people of pure british blood in england is perhaps 35000000 in scotland about 3000- the atlantic westward to saskatche wan other injurious insects are the douglas fir barkbeetle the mountain balsam barkbeetle and the western spruce barkbeetle in british columbia resulted in the satisfactory control of these outbreaks over hundreds ol square miles of forest landsand in the direct saving of many millions of feet of timber it should be possible 000 in canada about 5000000 in aus- the eastern spruco barkbeetle the through an extension of these control will be glad of them when the snow wncn storms j an brings from oneself the best flies sharpen the big end of the pole ask your teacher if she does not is to catch the inspiration beforo you fasten it into the box and want a cornstalk house in the school i of a mothers love expressed leave about a foot below the box to go j yard each pupil could furnish some- into the ground that will make the i thing toward the food supply the i have seen the earth untold itself shelter firm agninst the winter winds cornstalk- house will be a source of j to springtimes gentle rain the pole should bo tall enough to come j interest to old and young all winter i have felt the unleashed fury above the cornstalks so dont get the anda refuge in time of trouble for of a winters hurricane tallest in the field now set the stalks all the winter birds marvels of the queens miniature mansion designed as a gift to queen mary from eminent architects artists and authors but also intended to servo for all time as a model of the art and craftsmanship of today tho dolls house now being made for tho queen will when finisjiodbe tho most won derful miniaturo building in the world tho house which is being built to stand on a base ful dolls house ever known the queen has had but one object in view that of assisting certain deserving chari ties mainly london hospitals which are badly in need of funds that the house will ho the attrac tion of the season when it is exhibited next year at tho british empiro ex hibition is the verdict of all who have seen it in the making playing with pat- it was the lunch hour on the new building and pats fellowworkmen deciding to play a joko on him during his absence drew the features of a approximately the j donkey on the back of iis coat which size of a billiardtable is a replica in miniature of that portion of hampton court palace designed by sir chris topher wren a stately threewinged residence enclosing the beautiful foun tain court known to all who have visited the famous show place a seveninch piano apart from its design the queens dolls house will be as unlike the or dinary dolls house as it is possible to imagine set amid verdant wellor dered lawns with terrace trim box and yew hedges and crazy pave ments it will bo a veritable dream palace containing more marvels to the square inch than any other palaco or house in existence a domed entranco hall leads to a narblo stairway the lofty ceiling and walls of which are decorated with fres coes painted by noted artists each of tho downstairs rooms has mantel pieces of marble inlaid with jade as well as tiled hearths and wonderfully carved overmantels some of them have parquet flooring others are cov ered with tiny wilton carpets one room has silklined and oak- panelled walls on which are hung re- productions of old prints no bigger than a penny stamp one of the many other wonders ls tho music room in which a grand piano seven inches long is a con spicuous feature the piano is per fect in every detail another marvel is tho gunroom containing cases of guns made by a famous gunsmith and sporting gear of every kind from ski3 and skates to fishing tackle with cases of flies complete electric lights and lifts still more amazing is the library its walls are lined with glass cases containing shelf on shelf of tiny books including a miniaturo copy of a work by overy british author each volume is beautifully bound and ls capable of being read with microscope every room ls furnished as fully as if it were required for actual uso tho kitchens are equipped with ranges dressers tables shelves and every conceivable domestic utensil in the pantries are oxqulslto dinner and tea sorvices including a completo and valuable miniature coffee service of silver tiny switches control the eloctrlc light running wafer obtained from specially constructed cisterns sup plies the sculleries and bathrooms which are fitted with silver taps elec tric lifts convoy visitors in imagina tion from floor to floor outside there ls a wonderful garage in which are housed three perfect model motorcars and a motorcyclo and sidecar there are inspection pits workshops and living accommo dation for the imaginary chauffeurs a 10000 toyl although tho house is rapidly hear ing completion it is impossible for any one to state exactly what the bill for the finished product will total but it has been estimated at not far short of 110000 for which sum one could buy a very fir fullsized house and grounds in originating end fostering the scheme tut twwoinc the moit wonder- he had left behind in due course pat returned and presently appeared bear ing the decorated coat whats the trouble pat asked one man trying to appear indifferent nothing much replied pat equal ly indifferent only id like to know which one of you wiped his face on my coat q the largest packing plant in aus tralia handles annually about 90000 cattle and 50000 sheep bellowing resentful and sullen tearing through glen and dale to impress one with natures forces surely this canot fail yet natures deepest impressions j come not from the grandeur of spring nor does it come from the winter with its storms and tho coldness it brings for those which are lasting and worthy sole stamped in lifes greatest tests aro impressions gathered and trea sured in a mothers love expressed yea expressed in a million tokens of infinite love divine expressed in lifes greatest sorrows comforted as in yours and mine lifted to heights of the universe in building the character of man is a mothers love expressed to us made holy by gods own hand englands oldest remaining tollgate is claimed to be on the road between whitney and oxford by the gate stands a noticeboard dating from the time of charles ii trlia about 4000000 and in south af rica about 3000000 this appears on tho surface to be conclusive and to leave england miles ahead but we forget the united states of america during the war an american cross ing from fance to britain strongly objected to being called- officially a foreigner on the ground that as ho said he had as pure anglosaxon blood in his veins as any man in the british army could boast and he was right according to the census figures of the usa for 1920 the united states bronze birch borer the birch leaf skeletonizer the forest tent caterpillar and the white pine weevil which ap pear as the names indicate chiefly from the prairie provinces eastward measures to check all the remaining pine beetle outbreaks in british col umbia during the next two years these insect problems and many others are being investigated by tho entomologists of the division of for est insects the control of forest in sect injuries must bebased on a know ledge of the habits of insects the prin ciples of silviculture and the methods of logging employed in the region- af fected and while direct measuros such as modified logging operations must frequently be employed tho ex- difficult to fight unlike forest fires insect attacks are not caused by man and conse quently they are more difficult to fight nevertheless the dominion government as part of its work in pro tecting forest resources carries on an unending war against this enemy the contain more people of british exclu- 1 campaign is entrusted to the forest tension of the practice of scientific sive of irish origin than great britain i insects division of the entomological forestry will largely remove many of does the actual figures are 55000000 branch of the department of agricul- the j and fungous troubles so against say 38000000 in england i re and in carrying on the work the common n0 in our timber lauds it scotland and wales thus for every division cooperates with the forestry is oemg realized that forest entoraol- two representatives of the british race branch of the department of the in- ogy an forest mycology are branches terior and with the provincial forest 0 silviculture and that for the solu- services i t 0 tne major problems foresters the two greatest problems thus far j entomologists mycologists and practl- attacked are those created by the cal lumbermen must work in coopera spruce budworm and western pine tion as they already have been doing barkbeetle the former is the most in this country in the most harmonl- serious outbreak of recent years since ous and effective way 1810 it has svept over the spruce and i tho services of our entomologists balsam fir forests of eastern canada are available without- charge for ad- and destroyed an immense quantity of j vice with respect to all forest and pulpwood estimated by authorities as other insect injuries and for more de- between 100 million and 200 million tailed investigation and report in the cords or a quantity sufficient to supply i more serious cases reports on the our pulp mills for many years at their major problems under investigation present rate of consumption this ap- j are published from time to time in the palling loss renders it important thatiiform of bulletins or circulars ot the we conserve carefully all that remains entomological branch department of the officers of the division of forest agriculture found in great britain there are three in the united states let em find out artists wife dear dear there are burglars in the house dauber well what of it im not going to trouble to tell em theyve made a mistake not a family pet jim to what family does the whale belong asked the teacher i dunno said jim awaking from a sound sleep no family in our neigh borhood owns a whale whatsoever a man sews ho rips spitsbergen latest goal of amundsen while all other lands around the pole aro blocked in ice spitzbergen re mains open through the action of the gulf stream this warm current of water flows upward by the western shores of spitzbergen breaking the ice there and melting the snow and spitzbergen in summer is one of the pleasantest spots in the world it is the one place in which it is pos sible to hvo in comfort without ill ness for owing to the arctic air no disease germs can exist in spitzber gen they may arrive in the stores clothing and bodies of men who visit these regions but they do not long sur vive in a few years perhaps we shall watch the islands become a health resort in the course of thousands of years these extraordinary islands have been discovered lost and discovered again they are the fabulous realm of the dead old viking men who sailed to them in forgotten days and brought back strange stories which their poets wove into immortal legends and they are now to be the new wonder world of riches despised by all a fer years ago spitzbergen was the no mans land of europe a rich man had but to engage a score of hardy settlers provide them with pro visions and buildings and he could this polar waste henry hudson had merely found whales but ho found whales by the hundred thousand they were tne right bowhead whales each one worth about 10000 in whale oil tested all the other claims the ger mans more enterprising andbetter equipped with knowledge than all the other claimants made no claim they simply ran a spitzbergen steamship and whalebone at that time whale service opened the islands to holiday oil was the general limp oil and indus- 1 makers and began to build a zeppelin trial oil of northern europe towns i airship station and organized a sub and houses were lighted with it it j marine base russia and scandinavia was wanted for working on iron and j almost came to war over spitzbergen steel and for many other purposes while germanw was winning the is- the whaling grounds of the middle at- lands from both of them by the peace lantic had been exhausted and the treaty of brestlitovsk the germans european peoples were suffering from imagined they had obtained all for island there are large dark banos stretching across the brown rock and the great sheets of snow- they reach for miles and they are coal seams there is more coal in spitzbergen than in great britain almost alongside j ifjgrgggg a famine in oil fortunes ot many millions were made by the whale hunt ers of spitzbergen and then when the whales had been destroyed tho british province of newland was forgotten so far as the british government was con cerned anybody could have these ex hausted treasure islands russian fur hunters settled there but after a long struggle they failed to get a liv ing then fur hunting norsemen tried but found the task hopoless in spite of its freedom from disease spitzbergen was regarded down to our days with the same horror as the ancient vikings looked at it- it was still the land of death it could be visited in summer without danger but practically all adventurers who tried to winter there perished in a horrible way a fearful disease attacked them have become lord of a kingdom as it was a disease for which the remedy largo as greece and master of wealth beyond all calculation but no na- the coal are mountains of iron ore su- j l porior to any in europe when sir j martin conway was making the first crossing of western spitzbergen in 1897 he passed so much iron that hia compass became useless there are great mountain ranges of iron and with spitzbergen coal and iron the brushing the hulls of ships it is reported that an australian company has introduced in england an ingenious method of cleaning tho outside of the hull of a ship tho in vention has been in successful opera tion for a number of years in australia and has been tried at southampton and plymouth the apparatus i3 mounted upon a suitable frame which can be suspend ed from theside of a boat jit con sists of a cylindrical brush about five or six feet in length held in a frame work which also supports an electric motor and a propeller the purpose ofthe propeller is to keep tho brush pressed against the side of the ship carrying the apparatus com which they had struggled and spitz bergen was their for the taking but they could not take it the british fleet was in the way under protec tion ot the fleet capt frank wild of antarctic fame sailed in 1918 for spitz bergen and annexed the german terri tory there finally at the peace con ference in paris great britain sur rendered tho islands to tho original discoverers the norsemen a northern gibralter during the last european struggle for spitzbergen nobody in any govern ment office discerned the treasures of these islands the reason why rus sia scandinavia germany holland and great britain contended for them was merely that the barren rocks and ice fields were at last known to be habltablo it was seen that if a garri son could hvo in comfort through the tains also a four cylinder petrolenm motor directly coupled to a dynamo the current produced serves to raiso and lower the carrying frame as well as to drive the propeller and brush as tho appliance bperates under water the motor and gearing are inclosed in a watertight box the machine ls british nation could in a few years bij of remov the thickest de- challenge tho steel industry of the united states british enterprise americans were among the first to stake out a coal held in this polar re gion but at present two british com panies own 3900 square miles of coal iron and other mineral fields by the open water of western spitzbergen j posits and can thoroughly clean tho hull of an 8000 ton ship in from six to seven hours the illiterates letter one of the most pathetic figures in the great war was the soldier who could not read or write in moonlight schools mrs cora wilson stewart tells how one illiterate soldier was wont to write home will you address a dozen envelopes for me to my mother please one man said to another at a ymca hut in france certainly was the reply but abounded for simple fresh meat cured j long arctic night and keep the west- it and every sufferer could have ern coast open by icebreakers a great- brought himself back to health in the e gibraltar could be established here same way as shacklefons party did j spitzbergen with hor incomparable and yet in the days of shakespears under similar circumstances in antarc- 1 harbors commands tho northern sca the islands were the richest part of j tlca the disease was caused entire- j way to russia and the northern atten tion no company no rich men thought spitzbergen was worth occupying the norsemen though they have bought out the americans own scarce ly onesixth as much territory as bri tain and the swedes have somewhat less than a tenth most of the ground was obtained in the days when the is lands were a no mans land when property could be acquired by pegging j why a dozen are you planning to out a claim and registering a title at j writo to her every day you must bo the foreign office the field was ooen a dutiful son to every nation and englishmen j no these are to last me a year welshmen and scotsmen simply out- 1 said the first soldier i promised my raced all other competitors 1 mother that id get some envelopes ad- coal now fetches an extraordinary a onco a m m tho young british empire they wore annexed by tho muscovy company of london renamed newland and prized beyond virginia and tho new england states our forefathers mado more money out of them than the spaniards made out of peru a dutch explorer william barents rediscovered tho lost islands in 1596 but did not understand their value and it was not till henry hudson found them whllo striving to find a northwest passage to china that spitz bergen becamo in tho first halt of the seventeenth century what klondike was toward the end of tho nineteenth century in the course of a fey years the western island which is about as largo as switzerland was trans formed from an uninhabited desert to a country with s0000 men wealth in whales it was not gold that lured man to i ly by the lack of vltamines and by cat- tic trade route being less than a lng flesh of seals or reindeer kept fresh in ice through the winter fresh food could have been obtained to sup ply what was lacking struggle for possession thus spitzbergen remained the neg lected treasure islands of the world through tho nineteenth century be cause ot ignorance ot vltamines but as soon aa tho knowledge becamo known in our own time he wild race thousand miles from scotland it also dominates tho british naval base at scapa flow the water of the british jslcs the entrance to tho baltic sea and all norway and northern russia aro within cruising range of the gib raltar of the pole in the hands of nsmall power like norway spitzbergen can hardly be come a danger to tho peace of the world perhaps a british spitsbergen for spitsbergen began it was a thrill- m hat0 excited the fears of other lng struggle for possession surpass- countries by giving britain with gib ing in interest and peril tho contest of raltar ami her nomo bases an over- tho days of henry hudson the rus sians tho swedes tho norwegians and the danes all wanted the islands the dutch maintained that the rediscovery by barents gave them a complete titlo to spitsbergen the british foreign office looked up the documents relat ing to the newland period and con- whelming command ot european traf fic rich in minerals it remains true however that the private enterprise of british mer chants has acquired the chiot natural treasures of spitzbergen on many of the seaward mountains of the western price abroad it may have become j cheaper but it may never be as cheap j as before the war in europe miners have to work at ever deepening lovels in order to get the fuel on which mod ern civilization depends but in tho british spitzbergen collieries the coal is near tho surface usually only a few hundred yards from good harbors there ara no royalties wayleaves rate3 taxes or custom duties in tho long bright summertime the work of coal getting is as easy as any heavy labor can be and it is found that like the old whale hunters of spitzbergen tho miners are eager to return to the invigorating islands strangely beautiful it is in winter with its wide ramparted sounds its majestic fiords- its tremendous gla ciers and its many colored mountains sea birds seals and walruses abound and in the bleak icebound eastern is lands a vast white realm ot silence the great bear is still lord of tho polar wilderness a dollar bill into one and mail it to her and by that shed know that i was still alive puzzled bird gee id like to see tho sir that could swallow those worns tho first practical typewriter w invented fifty years ngi-