SHEEP ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL 



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The lambs at five months will weigh approximately 

 sixty pounds and will be worth fifteen cents a pound 

 or more. The useful life of a sheep is about six 

 years. 



The day will not come again when each family will 

 have its own spinning wheel and weave its own clothing ; 

 but as a result of the White House precedent it is certain 

 and it is a good step that hundreds of homes through- 

 out the country will in the future have small flocks of 

 sheep grazing on the lawns or in the woodlands about 

 them. The benefits both to the nation and to the indi- 

 vidual will be manifold. 



CAPT. BARTELME PROMOTED 



"C* E. BARTELME, president of the Keith Lumber 



* Company, of Chicago, has received the good news 

 that his son, F. M. Bartelme, has been promoted to 

 major in the 20th Engineers of the national army, one 



MAJ. F. M. BARTELME 



of the forestry regiments in France. Mr. Bartelme with 

 rank of captain has been in France several months as 

 advisory lumbering expert under Col. W. A. Mitchell. 

 When he was chosen, last September, as advisor in lum- 

 bering to Colonel Mitchell the intention of the War 

 Department was to rank him major then, but as he was 

 then only 36 years old the honor could not be bestowed 

 upon him. Since then his services in France have been 

 so notable that the War Department evidently has found 

 some way to waive age requirements, as 40 years is the 

 age for conferring the rank of major. 



Major Bartelme is well experienced in every branch 

 of lumbering. Before going to France he was engaged 

 in business in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a branch at 



Cairo, Illinois. The business is still conducted at Minne- 

 apolis with L. T. Lloyd, its secretary, in charge and the 

 branch at Cairo in charge of C. E. Johnson, the company 

 specializing in hardwoods. Though a young man, Major 

 Bartelme passed through every stage of lumbering in 

 the North from woods operations to salesmanship, which 

 made him a well equipped man for Uncle Sam in getting 

 out lumber supplies in France, a work that he has evi- 

 dently done to the entire satisfaction of his superiors, 

 judging from his promotion. 



PARROT AN AUTOMOBILE SPEED FIEND 



A LTHOUGH this picture shows the car standing still 

 -^*- in order to allow a good picture to be taken, never- 

 theless the parrot on the windshield is undaunted by 

 speed. In fact the faster the machine goes the more he 

 enjoys it, and the louder he screeches. As the auto 

 whirls about the streets of Stockton, California, he is 

 in his element, and the curious pedestrians are amazed 

 to see him perched perilously on the swaying car, al- 



"CRANK 'ER UP!" 

 This is the parrot that loves to speed and he is impatient now to be off. 



ways at his post at the top-edge of the windshield. He 

 has the "motor-bug," and thus imitates man as he does in 

 his speech. Other animals have been reported at various 

 times as having the "motor-bug," but a parrot so af- 

 fected is rather a novelty. Dogs take to the automobile 

 as a duck takes to water, and seem to enjoy the outing 

 and speed as much as their masters and mistresses. A 

 new type of automobile dog may yet follow in line of 

 succession to the coach dog, now becoming a rarity. 



r P HE Mississippi Legislature has passed a bill exempt- 

 * ing from taxation for a period of five years all 

 wood distillation plants that may be built in the State. 

 The purpose of the bill is to encourage the wood dis- 

 tillation industry in Mississippi. The measure will affect 

 pine more than hardwoods, but there is much hard- 

 wood in the State that might be used in destructive 

 distillation. 



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