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WOOL 



and the downy woodpecker, two small birds 

 resident through the year in the Northern 

 United gtates an( j Canada. The green wood- 

 pecker, a gaudy species, is found both in South 

 America and the British Isles. The great- 

 spotted woodpecker is a handsome bird, found 

 in Europe and Asia Minor. In South Africa is 

 found the ground woodpecker, a singular spe- 

 cies which feeds on the ground and excavates 

 its nest in clay banks. M.A.H. 



Consult Eckstorm's The Woodpeckers; For- 

 bush's Useful Birds and Their Protection. 



WOOD PE'WEE, a small bird of the fly- 

 catcher family, resembling the phoebe but dis- 

 tinguished from it by having longer wings than 

 tail, by frequent- 

 ing trees rather 

 than barns and 

 bridges, and by 

 its more plain- 

 tive note, which 

 sounds somewhat 

 like pee -a- wee. 

 It summers 

 throughout the 

 Eastern United 

 States and 

 Canada and win- 

 ters in South 

 America. It 

 builds one of the THE WOOD PEWEE 

 daintiest of nests, weaving various plant fibers 

 compactly together and covering the outside 

 with lichens, placing it on the horizontal limb 

 of a tree. The eggs are four in number, of a 

 creamy-white color, speckled with brown. 



WOOD SPIRIT, or METHYLATED, meth'i 

 la ted, SPIRIT, a form of denatured alcohol, 

 prepared by adding to one hundred parts of 

 methyl alcohol ten parts wood spirits and one- 

 half part of benzine. It is quite generally used 

 as a fuel in engines and as a solvent. In the 

 United States wood spirit is not subject to tin 

 ordinary taxes imposed on pure alcohol. See 

 ALCOHOL, subhead Denatured Alcohol. 



WOOD 'STOCK, the county town of Carleton 



County, New Brunswick, in the central-western 



part of the province. It is on tin rmht. or west, 



bank of the Saint John River at its confluence 



with the Meduxnekcag, and is on the Canadian 



tfk and the Saint John <fc Quebec (operated 



by the Intercolonial) railways. The Saint John 



Me for small steamers both above and 



below the town, hut there is no river traffic of 



importance. Woodstock is twelve miles east 



of tin* Maine boundary and sixty-three miles 



398 



by rail northwest of Fredericton. Population 

 in 1911, 3,856; in 1916, estimated, 4,800. 



Woodstock is the center of a thriving agri- 

 cultural district, and is also important for its 

 manufactures, the chief of which are .lumber, 

 barrels and other wood products, starch, pork 

 and foundry products. One of the largest es- 

 tablishments in the town is a tannery. A large 

 supply of hemlock exists in the neighborhood, 

 and there are also cedar and spruce. Interest- 

 ing features of the city are an armory, com- 

 pleted in 1910, two hospitals, fine school build- 

 ings and the Dominion building, which dates 

 from 1865. 



WOODSTOCK, a city in Ontario, the county 

 town of Oxford County. It lies nearly midway 

 between Detroit and Niagara Falk, on the 

 main lines of the Canadian Pacific and Grand 

 Trunk railways, and is on the line of the Grand 

 Trunk which runs from Port Dover, on Lake 

 Erie, to Owen Sound and other ports on Lake 

 Huron and Georgian Bay. It i> a No the ter- 

 minus of a branch of the Canadian Pacific 

 which connects Woodstock with the Michigan 

 Central and Wabash railways at Saint Thomas. 

 By rail Woodstock is twenty-nine miles east of 

 London, twenty-seven miles west of Brantford, 

 and fifty-one miles east of Hamilton. Popu- 

 lation in 1911, 9,320; in 1916, estimated, 11,000. 



Woodstock is beautifully situated at the con- 

 fluence of the Thames River and Cedar Creek. 

 It is in the center of one of the finest agricul- 

 tural districts in Ontario, and has a large mar- 

 ket building and one of the best weekly mar- 

 kets in the province. The city is famous for 

 its avenues of trees, which make a fine show 

 during the summer months. Its attractiveness 

 and healthf ulness have made it a popular sum- 

 mer resort. It is more important, however, as 

 a manufacturing community, its chief products 

 being wagons and sleighs, furniture, pianos and 

 organs mid textiles. There are three piano 

 and organ factories. Harness, cereals, flour, 

 agricultural implements, wire fencing, automo- 

 biles, stoves and furnaces, munitions and soap 

 are other important products. Woodstock was 

 founded in 1850, and was incorporated as a city 

 in l'.K)l. It was naiurd for Woodstock, the fa- 

 mous town in Oxfordshire, England, where Ed- 

 ward, the Black Prince, was born, and where 

 hind built Blenheim Palace for the Duk< 

 of Marlborough. 



WOOL, the soft, modified form of li.nr which 

 covert, sheep and several species of goats. With 

 the exception of cotton it is the most ext -n- 

 sively used of all textile fibers. Affording 



