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On a site near Kagi (Japan) a factory is being installed witli. 

 every requisite to deal in the first place with only 300 tons of pulp 

 per month, but with room for any development. In this case, 

 however, the pulp will be treated in Formosa, and shipped in 

 rolls or sheets to the paper mills at Kobe; just in the same way as 

 the Avood pulp of Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland is shipped 

 to the United Kingdom to feed the British paper mills. Esparto_ 

 grass gives way to wood pulp in this country for paper-making 

 purposes, and it is hoped that in the Far East bamboo pulp will 

 enable Eastern mills to compete with the British and American 

 imported paper of the finer qualities. One thing has to be borne 

 in mind — that the process of manufacture from bamboo is a 

 more expensive one than that from wood. Meantime, at any 

 rate, experiments may cheapen the process, and the supply of the 

 cane is practically inexhaustible. 



- Furthermore, the bamboo is a plant that can readily be culti- 

 vated. If any particular species of bamboo is considered the best 

 for paper-making purposes it can easily be grown in any quan- 

 tity. Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania all have forests of that 

 plant, and a very interesting process is the manufacture of the- 

 cane into paper. It is ciit up into small pieces of one or two 

 inches, then boiled with sulphate of lime, bleached by electricity, 

 washed, machine rolled, and pressed into tissue form and dried by 

 steam. When wound into rolls or sheets it has a pleasing appear- 

 ance, and makes an excellent quality of paper. — L. and C. Express. 



GOATS. 



The goat industry is little known in the United States, but there 

 is no sound reason why it should be so. ( )n fifteen thousand 

 square miles, Switzerland raises annually eight million dollars' 

 worth of goats and goat products. America has all the essential 

 conditions of Switzerland in her mountainous regions. In l>a- 

 varia, the number of centenarians among the people is noteworthy, 

 and is credited to the fact that there is a large use of goat milk. 

 This milk is very rich and highly digestible, and is recommended 

 for invalids and babies. The goat, itself, is immune from tu- 

 berculosis, which is a mighty point in its favor. With milHons 

 of acres of brush land lying idle in this country, and with mil- 

 lions of babies clamoring for proper food, the milk-goat industry 

 could doubtless assume monstrous proportions, if a love for the 

 goat could be instilled into our peo])le, especially in tliosc li\-ing im 

 mountainous reii:ions. — The Funiier's Guide. 



