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well after the first. In eight days, with their assistance, 520 

 yards of fencing were erected, with 5 ft. 3 in. posts, and seven 

 wires, 3 ft. 6 in. high. The heavy work was done by the 

 forester, but the girls held the posts, rolled out the wire, assisted 

 with other things, and also drove most of the staples. They 

 proved also very handy at nursery work, their gardening ex- 

 perience helping them here. The work done was mostly 

 transplanting into the ordinary nursery lines, and lining out 

 seedlings from the seed-beds. 



The girls were quite useful at most kinds of work after they 

 had been shown how to do it, but of course those taking up 

 the work must make up their minds to stay at it for some time, 

 for some teaching is required before they can handle all the 

 different tools used in forestry and other estate work. 



Steel Ships and Need of Timber, 191 3. 



Mr J. H. Milne-Home points out that in the note on this 

 subject which appears in the January issue, page 104, there 

 is an error in the figures given as to the area of woodland 

 which would be necessary to grow the timber required for 

 the industries of the Clyde area. The figures given for area 

 should have been divided by 40, to allow for the year's growth 

 of 40 cubic feet per acre. Thus the area required to grow 

 the timber used in the shipbuilding industry of the Clyde should 

 have been 50,000 acres, and that for the requirements of the 

 industries of the whole Clyde area 290,000 acres, instead of the 

 figures given in the note. 



Paper from Saw-dust. 



Some important investigations which have been carried on 

 by Mr Hall Caine, jun., the Deputy-Controller of Paper 

 under the Board of Trade, and Mr Frederick Becker, the 

 head of the Donside Paper Company, have led to the possibility 

 of saw-dust being used on an extensive scale for the manufacture 

 of paper suitable for newspapers. The saw-dust is first of all 

 converted into wood-flour in grinding mills, and green saw-dust, 

 or saw-dust from the conversion of timber which has been 

 recently felled, can be ground finer than dry saw-dust, and is 

 more suitable than the latter for the manufacture of saw-pulp. 



