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an umbrella on a rainy day in any civilized 

 country was stoned by the populace, who looked 

 upon the act as impious. The first dealer who 

 arranges to weigh his wood, selling it by the 

 ton or hundredweight, or fraction thereof, as 

 coal is sold, and advertises the fact is likely to 

 draw a great increase to his trade, if it were 

 only for the novelty. 



Though the idea of weighing firewood may 

 seem preposterous to many we might as well 

 become prepared for the changes that this 

 rapid age brings about so quickly. Eggs will 

 yet be sold by weight instead of by count, for 

 it is well known that one dozen of large eggs 

 will weight more than another of small ones, 

 and will contain as much more food as the 



difference in weight indicates, or even more. 

 Potatoes now are sold by weight in most cities. 

 The tendency is to sell by weight many other 

 things that now are generally sold by measure. 



Measure is no just criterion of value. Weight 

 is a certain indication of content. It is more 

 honest, more just. Measure is neither, when 

 the objects sold are many in number and var- 

 ious in size. 



It must be conceded that a pound of green 

 wood is of far less heating value than a pound 

 of the seasoned fuel. But no one pays as 

 much now for green wood as he does for dry. 

 That is all a matter of custom or of economic 

 regulation. — Florida Times-Union. 



CHOOSE ONLY STURDY TREES AS MEMORIALS 



("forest Leaves," Pennsylvania.) 



Before you plant a tree be sure that it is 

 adapted to your region. Some of our native 

 spruce and also our balsam trees are very beauti- 

 ful trees in the colder parts of our state, but in 

 most of it they live long enough to become of 

 respectable size and then begin to die. The 

 white birch is also a tree of northern origin 

 which of late years has become remarkable by 

 its short life. It would be almost an insult to 

 the memory of any one to plant a tree of such 

 kind for a memorial. 



Then on the other hand we know of white 

 oaks five feet in diameter, and of red oaks as 

 large; and of pin oaks and scarlet oaks almost 

 as large — sturdy, symmetrical, impressive masses 

 of life and beauty. Among the cone bearing 

 evergreen trees is the Norway spruce, which in 

 spite of its foreign origin, is actually likely to 

 be more durable than any of our native ever- 

 green trees. White pines, if planted, should be 

 planted in masses, where in the struggle for light 

 the main trunks will grow strong and tall. If 

 the white pine is planted in the open it sends 

 out long branches which are too weak to bear 

 the weight of snow that falls upon them. Then, 

 too, the white pine weevil and the pine blister 

 rust threaten the pine. 



Among the other trees we might suggest as 

 suitable and fairly long lived are the black 



walnut, the beech and the sugar maple. The 

 hickory trees have the borer to contend with 

 and often die out in a neighborhood before its 

 pesistent attacks. For the same reason the 

 locust can no longer be regarded as suitable 

 for memorable purposes. 



SEED SUPPLY PRECARIOUS. 



Nursery planting in Canada has been greatly 

 handicapped this year by difficulty in obtain- 

 ing seed. Scotch pine seed was a failure in 

 Europe last season and red and white pine was 

 a failure in Canada. 



FOREST FIRES drive out 

 population 



A live forest means 

 live jobs. 



Therefore : — Put out your 



campfire, your match, 

 your cigarette ! 



