Popular Scioicc Montlili/ 



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How Would You Like To Be in the Place 

 of the Man in This Picture? 



THE spiderlike silhouette near the apex 

 of the angle formed by the falling top 

 and the majestic trunk of the magnificent 

 Douglas fir in the center of the picture is 

 that of a man, the logging foreman of a 

 lumber company on Puget Sound. These 

 giant firs are greatly needed for the keels, 

 frames and other parts of the big wooden 

 ships now building for the Gov 

 ernment and are supplied 

 almost exclusively by the 

 forests of Washington and 

 Oregon states. 



The big tree in the 

 picture was one hundred 

 and eighty feet high 

 before its top was cut 

 off. At the point where 

 the cut was made the 

 trunk had a diameter of 

 twenty-two inches. The fore- 

 man climbed the tree with 

 telephone-linemen's spikes and fastened him- 

 self to the trunk with a lineman's belt. It 

 took him twenty minutes to cut the top. 



Here Are Some War Breads You Have 

 Never Known 



OWING to the shortage of wheat the 

 powers that be have been experi- 

 menting to see whether satisfactory bread 

 cannot be made from other cereals. They 

 have come to the conclusion that they can — 

 very much so. 



The chief grains which the researches have 

 added to our food-stuflfs are cottonseed 

 meal, kafir corn, feterita, grain sorghums, 

 and milo. So far all these have been used 

 to feed to stock, but it is found that they can 

 all be milled and made into bread. Not 

 only that, but the bread is more palatable 

 and much more nutritious than wheat bread 

 ever thought of being. For instance, cot- 

 tonseed meal contains about forty-five per 

 cent, of proteins, whereas wheat only con- 

 tains about nine per cent. 



Of these new grains, Kansas, Texas, and 

 Oklahoma can supply enough to make up 

 this year's wheat shortage, while next year, 

 with more planted, the supply will be 

 abundant. Texas is capable of supplying 

 the whole country alone if necessary, so that 

 there is no danger of a bread shortage. 



Cutting the top off a big fir at Puget 

 Sound. It took twenty minutes to cut 



