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-couutrii's, sucli as Russia or ( 'aiiada, wIr'U tin.' season of uniu- 

 teiTupted cold arrives, animals an- slaughtered and lid/en by the 

 icj'' hand ol' nature, and arc thus jnescrved fresh I'or long jieriods'. 

 If frozen on ice, oi- kept in contact with ice, the llavoui- will he 

 greatly damaged ; hut, if dry-li'o/en and ke])t in an icy atmos- 

 phere, the llavoni and ap])earance do not suffer, and tlie meat is 

 fonnd very easy of digestion. Onee frozen, howevei-, it should 

 never be aHowed to thaw until il is alxjut to lie cooked, other- 

 wise it will sjioil with great rapidity. The reason of this is that. 

 as water e.\]iauds in freezing, the watery tluid, comliine(l with 

 the museulai- Hhre, Imi-.-ts the .^uii'ounding niendn-aneous tubes, 

 .and ■when thawed it is in a condiiion to undergo ra]iid chendcal 

 changes. 



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Should Newfoundland lieconu', a cattle and sheep raising coun- 

 try, not oidy does its geograiihical iiosition furnish important 

 facilities for the transportation of live stock, but the cohlness of 

 its climate in wintei' would be favouivilile for a frozitu meat 

 trade. Once the steady winter's cold sets in meats of all kinds, 

 venison, game — such as ptarnugair —could be frozen, and iu re- 

 frigerating apartments on board transported to other countries. 



roiJKST WKAI.TH OV THE ISLAND. 



The old tradition Avhicli represented the island as incapable of 

 pioducing trees, except of \ei'y small size, and declared that 

 ■ only a wivtched stunted growth was to bi' met with, is not yet 

 • ipiite extinit. . How entirely contrary to fact are such I'eports 

 has Ix'cn ali'cady shown in the foregoing chajiters. It is i|uite 

 true that, from time to lime, foi'est-fircs have destroyed some 

 sections of the heavily-timbered districts ; but tlie standing 

 ti'ces are not seriously injured in these biu-nt districts, and most 

 of them could still be turned to ])rofitable account, though the 

 .appearance presented In' their Ideached trunks and leafless arms 

 is sutticiently ghastly. The forest wealth, however, still remain- 

 ing unutilized is immense. As already stated, these forests an* 

 fciund cliiellv ia the valh'vs of the m-eat rivers and alomr the 



